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    <title>Dean: Obama is like Sharon</title>
    <link>http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/dean-obama-is-like-sharon/</link>
    <description>Barack Obama&#8217;s been getting a lot of of comparisons to Jesus lately &#8211; 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.

&#8220;Much as the United States needs the strong leadership Barack Obama gives us, Ariel Sharon turned out to be a strong leader,&#8221; he said, as he recalled a trip he took to the Jewish state just after Israel had pulled out of Gaza.

&#8220;In Israel and America, strong leaders make peace,&#8221; said Dean. &#8220;Only leaders who have the confidence to do what&#8217;s right, to make concessions if necessary&#8221; and &#8220;only leaders with strong self&#45;confidence can do the things that need to be done.&#8221;

Dean also criticzed the Republican Jewish Coalition&#8217;s anti&#45;Obama literature, calling it &#8220;despicable stuff&#8221; and telling the crowd that &#8220;you are the folks that can counteract&#8221; such &#8220;hate&#45;based propaganda.&#8221;

Much of Dean&#8217;s speech was devoted to making the argument that the proper home for Jewish voters is in the Democratic Party. He said the &#8220;core of the relationship&#8221; between Democrats and Jews goes beyond just support for Israel to shared &#8220;humanitarian values.&#8221;</description>
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    <dc:date>2008-09-24T;21:48:38-05:00</dc:date>
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      <link>yaakovwatkins@comcast.net</link>
      <description>I think Dean is correct that Obama is like Sharon and I think that Representative Cohen (D&#45;Tenn.) is correct the Jesus is Democratic.


Sharon promised one thing and delivered another.&amp;nbsp; He was a hardliner when elected and turned into a land&#45;for&#45;peace idiot when in office.


Jesus may be democratic.&amp;nbsp; Christians believe in mercy at the expense of justice, and believe that good intentions make up for bad follow&#45;through.&amp;nbsp; Those are not Jewish values.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Dean is correct that Obama is like Sharon and I think that Representative Cohen (D-Tenn.) is correct the Jesus is Democratic.
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Sharon promised one thing and delivered another.&nbsp; He was a hardliner when elected and turned into a land-for-peace idiot when in office.
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Jesus may be democratic.&nbsp; Christians believe in mercy at the expense of justice, and believe that good intentions make up for bad follow-through.&nbsp; Those are not Jewish values.
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    <dc:date>2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>yonaton770@hotmail.com</link>
      <description>For all Sharon&#8217;s faults, Obama still can&#8217;t come close to him.&amp;nbsp; Obama exceeds in bad, and as utterly zero good by comparison.


Here&#8217;s another link contrasting Republican values, and Democrat &#8220;values.&#8221;

http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/post.html


Again, there&#8217;s no comparison.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For all Sharon&#8217;s faults, Obama still can&#8217;t come close to him.&nbsp; Obama exceeds in bad, and as utterly zero good by comparison.
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Here&#8217;s another link contrasting Republican values, and Democrat &#8220;values.&#8221;
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<a href="http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/post.html">http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/post.html</a>
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Again, there&#8217;s no comparison.
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    <dc:date>2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>yonaton770@hotmail.com</link>
      <description>DEMOCRAT &#8220;HUMANITARIAN&#8221; VALUES

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear&#45;democrats&#45;letter&#45;from&#45;lt&#45;colonel.html


I don&#8217;t know any Jew who &#8220;shares&#8221; those &#8220;values.&#8221;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DEMOCRAT &#8220;HUMANITARIAN&#8221; VALUES
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<a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-democrats-letter-from-lt-colonel.html">http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-democrats-letter-from-lt-colonel.html</a>
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I don&#8217;t know any Jew who &#8220;shares&#8221; those &#8220;values.&#8221;
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    <dc:date>2012-02-10T;12:44:00-05:00</dc:date>
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