{"id":5984,"date":"2008-11-03T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/jerry-nadler-obama-wasnt-polit.html"},"modified":"2008-11-03T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T08:17:19","slug":"jerry-nadler-obama-wasnt-polit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/jerry-nadler-obama-wasnt-polit.html","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Nadler: Obama wasn&#8217;t &#8220;politically courageous&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because he didn&#8217;t walk out of Wright&#8217;s church. He said this to Jews who were concerned that Obama stayed in an anti-Semitic church for 20 years:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4rB1G0D3r7k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4rB1G0D3r7k&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)BTW, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khow.com\/pages\/caplisreport.html\">Obama knew that Wright was a racist after he heard Wright preach the first time<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barack Obama quoting the first sermon he ever heard Rev Wright preach, &#8220;The Audacity of Hope&#8221;:&#8221;It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere&#8230; That&#8217;s the world! On which hope sits!&#8221; Pg 293<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take political courage to walk out then, did it?(<a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/dem-leader-obama-didnt-have-political.html\">via<\/a>)Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2008\/11\/dem_congressman_let_russia_inv.asp\">Wow! The Nadler quote gets much worse (video at the link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    We have not been willing to put our priorities properly. We have not been willing to say &#8230; &#8220;Hey Russia, we won&#8217;t expand NATO into the Ukraine and Georgia, right next to your borders, if you cooperate with us on Iran.&#8221; &#8230;    I think Iran and Israel are a hell of a lot more important than expanding NATO to Russia&#8217;s borders. Why should we? What do we need it for? Someone in the crowd says: &#8220;Because they invaded Georgia.&#8221;Nadler retorts: &#8220;So let &#8217;em invade Georgia. It&#8217;s right next to them. Would we tolerate a foreign&#8211;a Russian army in Mexico? Which is more important to us Georgia or Israel, frankly?&#8221;Another voice in the crowd asks Nadler: &#8220;What is more important to us Czechoslovakia or Austria?&#8221;&#8221;That&#8217;s a completely separate kind of question,&#8221; Nadler replies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he didn&#8217;t walk out of Wright&#8217;s church. 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