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Old 07-25-2008, 06:03 PM
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Senator Barack Obama probably thought that the prayer he penned in the solitude of his King David hotel room in Jerusalem would remain between him and the Almighty. But an Orthodox Jewish student had other ideas.

Following Jewish tradition, Obama donned a yarmulke and went to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, where shortly before dawn on Thursday he stuffed his prayer into a crevass between the giant white stones, hewn over 2,000 years ago. Traditionally such prayers, and there are over a million every year, some arriving by fax and email, are collected twice a year and buried on the Mount of Olives. It is considered taboo to read the prayers.

But after Obama and his entourage left the sacred site, an orthodox seminary student went to the Wall, fished out Obama's personal note and delivered it to Maariv newspaper, which duly printed the senator's prayer.

The newspaper's decision to publish Obama's private words was "an outrage", said Rabbbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, supervisor of the Western Wall. "It damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves," the rabbi told Army Radio. "The note placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make use of them."

Obama didn't pray for an election victory, a lottery win to help pay for his campaign, or for his Republican rival Senator John McCain to be felled by lightning or a pecadillo. On the contrary; his prayer hints at the struggle within, how Obama is seeking divine guidance to surmount the obstacles that lie ahead of him in his lonely, awesome challenge to become the next president of the United States. On hotel stationary, he penned the following prayer, according to Maariv, which ran a photo of the note: "Lord, protect my family and me," Obama wrote. "Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will."

Obama, now finishing up the European leg of his tour, has not commented on his private prayer being made public in Jerusalem.
Shameful conduct by the student and the newspaper.

Appropriate and beautiful prayer.
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Old 07-25-2008, 06:11 PM
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You missed the last part...

"Forward this to 3 newspapers within the next 24 hours and you'll be rich!"...
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what does that mean?
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what does that mean?
I was referring to those stupid emails you get from relatives and friends (who are morons) that always send you stupid stuff telling you to forward the email or else bad luck will happen...
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oh

that was from cnn.com

sorry - I should have used a link
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oh

that was from cnn.com

sorry - I should have used a link
Didn't find the article on CNN.COM

Can you direct us to the article so that we can review all of it? Thanks.
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Obama's Private Prayer 'Leaked' - TIME

It was a link on CNN that led to the Time page.
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Shameful conduct by the student and the newspaper.
Well, we THOUGHT is was shameful...

Now it looks like it was actually approved by the Lamb of Chicago himself...

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Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv was lambasted for printing the note that Obama placed in the Western Wall, allegedly stolen by a Yeshiva student. "Notes which are placed in the Western Wall are between the person and his Maker; Heaven forbid that one should read them or use them in any way," said the Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall. "This sacrilegious action deserves sharp condemnation and represents a desecration of the holy site."

But according to a statement from Ma'ariv yesterday, the Obama campaign actually leaked the note to reporters before Obama even placed it in the wall. Yediot Aharonot, Israel's most popular daily, apparently also received a copy of the note in advance but decided not to print it. As a Ma'ariv spokesman told the Jerusalem Post:

Barack Obama's note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel [Western Wall], a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
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I don't believe it.
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I don't believe it.
Of course not...
Those who support Obama won't believe it no matter what evidence there is to prove it..
And, those who don't support him will believe it despite any info refuting the story...
welcome to the 2008 presidential campaign...
the thing is...noithing would surprise at this point...
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