Barack Bunker

Can you believe that this guy isn't aware that he's spouting the most notorious bigot's cliche in the book?:

JG: Go to the kishke question, the gut question: the idea that if Jews know that you love them, then you can say whatever you want about Israel, but if we don’t know you –- Jim Baker, Zbigniew Brzezinski –- then everything is suspect. There seems to be in some quarters, in Florida and other places, a sense that you don’t feel Jewish worry the way a senator from New York would feel it.

BO: I find that really interesting. I think the idea of Israel and the reality of Israel is one that I find important to me personally. Because it speaks to my history of being uprooted, it speaks to the African-American story of exodus, it describes the history of overcoming great odds and a courage and a commitment to carving out a democracy and prosperity in the midst of hardscrabble land. One of the things I loved about Israel when I went there is that the land itself is a metaphor for rebirth, for what’s been accomplished. What I also love about Israel is the fact that people argue about these issues, and that they’re asking themselves moral questions.

Sometimes I’m attacked in the press for maybe being too deliberative. My staff teases me sometimes about anguishing over moral questions. I think I learned that partly from Jewish thought, that your actions have consequences and that they matter and that we have moral imperatives. The point is, if you look at my writings and my history, my commitment to Israel and the Jewish people is more than skin-deep and it’s more than political expediency. When it comes to the gut issue, I have such ardent defenders among my Jewish friends in Chicago. I don’t think people have noticed how fiercely they defend me, and how central they are to my success, because they’ve interacted with me long enough to know that I’ve got it in my gut. During the Wright episode, they didn’t flinch for a minute, because they know me and trust me, and they’ve seen me operate in difficult political situations.

The other irony in this whole process is that in my early political life in Chicago, one of the raps against me in the black community is that I was too close to the Jews. When I ran against Bobby Rush [for Congress], the perception was that I was Hyde Park, I’m University of Chicago, I’ve got all these Jewish friends. When I started organizing, the two fellow organizers in Chicago were Jews, and I was attacked for associating with them. So I’ve been in the foxhole with my Jewish friends, so when I find on the national level my commitment being questioned, it’s curious.

Or, in so many words, "I have nothing against Jews.  Why, some of my best friends are Jewish!"  Which is to say, ultraliberal, as in order to be more than just another Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, Obama had to broaden his appeal outside just the African-American "community".

However, in order to retain his appeal to that demographic, BO also maintained his membership in a "church" that pulpited a "pastor" who "feted and honored Louis Farrakhan, a virulent anti-Semite," and "reprinted Hamas propaganda in the church newsletter on several occasions."  To say nothing of joining now-again-notorious Weathermen terrorist William Ayers in contributing $75,000 to Rashid Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat toady, and having, until recently, a foreign policy advisor (Robert Malley) that has always been anti-Israel and, like Jimmy Carter, broke bread and swapped blood libel stories with the leaders of Hamas.

So who cares, really, if False Messiah was referring to the Israeli-Palestinian "controversy" or just Israel itself as a "constant sore"?  He's "nuanced" enough to not be that blatant about what he really thinks of the Jews, and in any case, "this problem" is simply the buzzphrase that the predominantly anti-Israel Donk base is supposed to pick up on as reassurance that he'll side with the Pals when the time comes.  The more pertinent question is whether Obama's Jewish friends or his Jew-hating friends are a better barometer of his own leanings on the subject.  In this case, as so many others, logic - if not this cycle's electoral math - prohibits BO from having it both ways.

UPDATE: Does bilge like this not foreshadow at the very least a massive letdown in a year or two?  Or, at worst, an irreparable "change" for the worse beyond anybody's imaginings?

UPDATE II:  What do Jew-hating Palestinians know about the born-again Zionist that we don't?: