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bhkad · #6 (**permalink**) 08-05-2008, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

Paper cut #86. Who cares what some old Jew said to Obama. I don't care who lives in Jerusalem. It ain't on my radar screen. How was this a mistake by Obama.

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Obama’s Advisors – A Source For Concern

Yoram Ettinger, Ynet, July 232, 2008

Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, is not a key member of the Senate committees on foreign relations, armed services or intelligence, has not initiated-led any significant legislation and has not devoted himself to national security issues. He surged into the Senate and the presidential race from the Illinois local-political-social arena. Obama relies on a battery of experienced advisors, who influence/shape his world view and maybe even US policy and US-Israel relations for the next 4-8 years. However, the record of his advisors – most of whom served in the Carter and Clinton Administrations – constitute a source of concern.

http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/ele...e-concern.html

Here's an example of why Americans should be concerned. Read of all the advisers that were just plain bone-headed in other administrations who are now advising Obama.

Here's an example of just one:

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Madeleine Albright was Clinton’s Secretary of State, promoting Susan Rice. Albright considered Arafat a genuine partner for peace negotiation and a potential ally of the US. She transformed Arafat into the #1 Frequent Visitor to the White House, overlooked documentation of Arafat’s loathsome terrorism and anti-US policy, lobbied Congress for larger foreign aid to Arafat and enhanced his standing in Western capitals. Albright advanced a policy of negotiation-rather-than-confrontation with terror regimes. Hence, the absence of an effective preventive counter-terrorism policy and the lack of appropriate retaliation to the Islamic terrorist bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (300 murdered) and the bombing of the USS Cole (17 murdered). The policy of negotiation-rather-than-confrontation was interpreted by Islamic terrorists as weakness, thus paving the road to the 2001 Twin Towers and Pentagon terrorism (almost 3,000 murdered).