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A few weeks ago a chief leader of the Hamas Palestinian Arabs, Ahmed Yousef, expressed delight bordering on glee at the idea that Barack Obama might become the next president of the United States.
"Actually, we love Mr. Obama," he said. "We hope he will win the election."
Sensing some possible disaster in this, the liberal forces that fight to protect Obama at all costs, rallied to his defense. They tried to intimidate anyone who would dare to mention the fact that one of the world's worst terrorist groups had just endorsed Obama. Nobody should point this out, they complained. Pointing this out is hittng below the belt.
Fellow presidential candidate John McCain, war hero, proven patriot, and lover and defender of America, had the audacity to point it out. So the liberal politicians and media jumped all over him. Unseemly and inappropriate, they hollered. Obama himself shook his head in disapproval, "more in sorrow than in anger," he said, in his best deceitful tone. "I thought Senator McCain had promised to run a positive campaign," he complained.
Obama's liberal Senate cronies, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, charged McCain with "behaving in an unbecoming manner," for bringing it up. And one of those supposedly unbiased media persons berated McCain to his face in a TV interview, while McCain was trying to be a polite guest.
Thinking it through, there are probably only two reasons why Obama has earned Hamas' hearty endorsement. It is either because Hamas believes he is sympathetic to them, or that they think he is so naive that they can run circles around him.
Obama has said that he "understands" the Palestinian positions and cause. He and his wife often socialized in Chicago with an Arab-American friend, Rashid Khalidi, a former professor at the University of Chicago. Khalidi has called Israel "a racist state" and charged Israel with having "an apartheid system." He also has had strong ties with the Palestinians. Obama has been right by Khalidi's side when he has made outrageous anti-Israel comments, with never a peep of opposition from Obama.
Neither did Obama back away from his big cheerleader, Jimmy Carter, when Carter recently blundered into talks with Hamas leaders, against the instructions of President Bush and Secretary of State Rice. Later, however, it seemed to dawn on Obama that he might need a good chunk of the Jewish vote to get elected, so he belatedly tried to distance himself from Carter's Hamas dance.
Obama had publicly stated that he would not negotiate directly with the Hamas terrorists, but last month one of his major foreign policy advisors did just that.
But of course, don't question Obama's integrity.
Remember that Obama comes from Moslem parentage on his father's side, and he bears a distinctly Arab-Moslem name. And we're supposed to wonder why the Arab-Moslem Hamas would prefer Barack Hussein Obama to John Sidney McCain?
Meanwhile, not wanting to let Hamas hog all the media attention, Cuba's America-hating Fidel Castro also gave Obama a big, loving political hug. Castro said that Obama was "easily the most progressive candidate for the U.S. presidency." Progressive is obviously communist code for . . . well, communist.
Castro did criticize Obama for saying that he would continue the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba. But he went on to say, "I am not questioning his inelligence, his communications skills, or his capabilities." It sounds as if Castro is tapping Hamas on the shoulder, wanting to cut in on the dance with Obama.
But of course, don't question Obama's patriotism, either.
You have to think that Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is extremely jealous that these killers have stolen his media thunder. And Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is probably wondering what he can do to hop on the Obama adoration train. Even North Korea's Kim Jong must be sick at the thought of the Moslems beating him out in the endorsement game.
Maybe, however, these three wonderful world leaders are a little smarter than Hamas and Castro. If they keep quiet and don't say too much, Americans just might fall victims to a collective wave of idiocy and elect the deceitful neophyte, who probably can't wait to sit around the campfire with them.
Israelis say, when your enemies tell you who they are, believe them. When they tell you what they intend to do, believe them. And when they tell you which of our presidential candidates they prefer, believe them. And also believe that they have their good reasons.
When America's and Israel's enemies prefer the Glib Deceiver to the Proven Patriot, it shouldn't take a neurosurgeon to figure out for whom responsible American citizens should vote.
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Dr. Al Snyder is a former professor of Communications at Liberty University in Virginia and North Greenville University. He has done extensive missionary work in Israel and Africa.
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