Dean: Obama is like Sharon
Barack Obama's been getting a lot of of comparisons to Jesus lately – both positive (those buttons saying Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor) and derogatory (the Republican nickname for him is Messiah). But Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean came up with a completely original comparison for Obama this morning that no one had likely ever thought about before: Ariel Sharon.
Dean said the Democratic presidential nominee and the former Israeli prime minister share similar leadership qualities.
"Much as the United States needs the strong leadership Barack Obama gives us, Ariel Sharon turned out to be a strong leader," he said, as he recalled a trip he took to the Jewish state just after Israel had pulled out of Gaza.
"In Israel and America, strong leaders make peace," said Dean. "Only leaders who have the confidence to do what's right, to make concessions if necessary" and "only leaders with strong self-confidence can do the things that need to be done."
Dean also criticzed the Republican Jewish Coalition's anti-Obama literature, calling it "despicable stuff" and telling the crowd that "you are the folks that can counteract" such "hate-based propaganda."
Much of Dean's speech was devoted to making the argument that the proper home for Jewish voters is in the Democratic Party. He said the "core of the relationship" between Democrats and Jews goes beyond just support for Israel to shared "humanitarian values."
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For all Sharon’s faults, Obama still can’t come close to him. Obama exceeds in bad, and as utterly zero good by comparison.
Here’s another link contrasting Republican values, and Democrat “values.”
http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/post.html
Again, there’s no comparison.
I think Dean is correct that Obama is like Sharon and I think that Representative Cohen (D-Tenn.) is correct the Jesus is Democratic.
Sharon promised one thing and delivered another. He was a hardliner when elected and turned into a land-for-peace idiot when in office.
Jesus may be democratic. Christians believe in mercy at the expense of justice, and believe that good intentions make up for bad follow-through. Those are not Jewish values.
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Yonason
09/24/08 05:26 PM
DEMOCRAT “HUMANITARIAN” VALUES
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-democrats-letter-from-lt-colonel.html
I don’t know any Jew who “shares” those “values.”