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Comment by me on frummies acted like mindless beasts in this election

oy shit.

it’s really put us in a weird place, those of us who are ortho progressives… yeesh.
at least a buttload of jews voted for him but, no joke, the mental health section of stern college had a big table set up today in case… well…

the only time a teacher mentioned the win was when a teacher said “how’s everyone doing on obama, is everybody ok?”

i got into a huge fight with a girl who not only said that obama was a terrorist who won’t let israel defend itself ( mindreader!)
first i tried to point out the loshan hara, then she said it’s ok to speak loshan hara about non jews!! she said that these are her views, but refused to provide any evidence to support her claim because, well, obviously…
she then opened up and told me that this is just another piece of the pre gog u magog picture (what is she referring to? leaders will be like dogs?! i hope not!)
of course i tried to remind her that as a matter of principle, prophecy in the torah is seen as a challenge for us to rectify the world, a warning of what will happen if we don’t.
i’m desperate, i feel like i’m drowning in a sea of hate and it’s all these jews who are supposed to know better for so many reasons.

the thing is, i really care… and it hurt my feelings during the campaign when Barack Obama was villified and his face was put next to dictators and tyrants. i’m sure someone is going to respond to this who (is a shithead) doesn’t feel so honky dory about the president elect, but jeez, get over it. the people voted. your distopian fantasies won’t happen as our utopian visions won’t, and at the end of the day we’re just all a bunch of human beings trying to make the best of what we’re given to the best of our abilities, Obama included.
it’d be nice if all the haters made aliyah right now, they could have 1 fucked up country instead of 2, making life just that much more palatable.

Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."                                                                          -    haonion hakodesh

Just got this text from a Chabad Shliach: Oib m'davent MCCEIN efsher PAYLIN az der Aibeshter zol nisht BIDEN der president far A'BHAIMA…!!!!  

I like these comments on theantitzemach's post,

צי דערלאזט תורה זיין א סאציאליסט

Seems we have more Charedi Socialists than we think

Schneur said

Many gedolim like Rav Yehuda Ashlag, Reb Itzekel Ponovieszer (Rabinowitz)were openly Soialists. Even a man like Rav Yolles was very close to the Communist party in the uS in the 1920's.
The Poale Agudas Israel in Poland and in Israel were also mild socialists seeking protection of Chassiidc workers (not all Chassidim in Poland were negidim , kezinim and alufim , most were aremeleit evyonim)
The Tore is certainly not against helping the have nots , not does the Tore sanction a society based on classes.
Perhaps the new Orthodox society has become so middle class in nature that the poor are looked upon as dregs.
In general we all ought to spend some time reading the Navi and thinking what the message of the Prophets was and its relevance to our day.

Joe in Australia said

.. everybody has an obligation to support the poor, and the Bais Din can even expropriate property to enforce this when necessary. The standard of living isn't a bare subsistence: rather it is "according to their needs". Sounds like socialism, or even communism to me….

Josh said

Both systems of thought are heavily indebted to Judaic sources and it is no surprise that some Jewish thinkers realized these affinities. It is not as if Europeans did not have the Bible, Zohar etc in front of them when they formulated the philosophies which would lead both to dialectical materialism and to classical liberalism.

It is not another vicious campaign trick by the McCain people. And the fact that the LA Times is covering it up… Kalidi is a supporter of terrorist actions against Israeli civilians. That Obama is his close friend and associate could still be excused if not for the fact that this was sponsored by the AAAN (Arab American Action Network), an organization which supports the killing of civilians as well.

from the National Review

The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape

…[T]he warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor's going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say.

Their belief is not drawn from Obama's speeches or campaign literature, but from comments that some say Obama made in private and from his association with the Palestinian American community in his hometown of Chicago, including his presence at events where anger at Israeli and U.S. Middle East policy was freely expressed.
One speaker likened "Zionist settlers on the West Bank" to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been "blinded by ideology."
Obama adopted a different tone in his comments and called for finding common ground. But his presence at such events, as he worked to build a political base in Chicago, has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than … his opponents for the White House….

At Khalidi's going-away party in 2003, the scholar lavished praise on Obama, telling the mostly Palestinian American crowd that the state senator deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat. "You will not have a better senator under any circumstances," Khalidi said.

The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.

4000 dollars to every yeshiva student from the age of 18 until 22. Do you know how much money that is for yingerleit, yeshivas and kolelim?

Also, complelete health care for all charedim, most of whom are poor.

And more social services, and more early child-care.

Charedim in Israel always vote for the candidate who promises them the most money, be it through welfare or money to the yeshivas and kolelim. (And Charedim do this at the expense of their other supposed concerns, say, about the peace process. Shas supported Oslo, and the other Charedi parties supported the Wye agreement. They have continuously gone with the leftists for promises of more money.)

Obama provies the criteria by which Israeli Charedim vote for candidates.

Charedim for Obama!

Woman claims wild Obama supporter carved a B on her cheek–turns out she was a big fat LIAR.  Well, isn't it easy to tell as much–the dumb bitch carved it backwards!!!  Typical McCain voter.  What is she going to say, the guy was dyslexic?

-hat tip to mccainisreallyold.com  via allahuechad

Let America Be America Again                                                                                                                                                                                              by Langston Hughes 

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be.

Let it be the pioneer on the plain

Seeking a home where he himself is free.

        (America never was America to me.)

 Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

          (It never was America to me.)

 O, let my land be a land where Liberty

Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,

But opportunity is real, and life is free,

Equality is in the air we breathe.

          (There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?  

And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.

I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--

And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that ancient endless chain

Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!

Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine.

I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--

Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!

I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings,

Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings

In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That's made America the land it has become.

O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home--

For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,

And torn from Black Africa's strand I came To build a "homeland of the free."

 The free?

 Who said the free?  Not me? Surely not me?  The millions on relief today?

The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay?

For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung

And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung,

The millions who have nothing for our pay-- Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet--

 And yet must be--the land where every man is free. The land that's mine–the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME–

Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,

Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-- The steel of freedom does not stain.

 From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!

O, yes, I say it plain,

America never was America to me,

 And yet I swear this oath-- America will be!

 Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,

The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,

We, the people, must redeem

The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.

The mountains and the endless plain--

All, all the stretch of these great green states--

And make America again!

And here is our  man Ron Paul, breaking it down for the dumb fuckers that were unable to get it the 1st time around.