Obama demotes the Jews

Professor Edward Alexander (no relation, unfortunately) observes how Obama subtly belittles the Jews while at the same time declaring "that Islam had made great contributions to America — by which he meant not the massacres of 9/11 but the fact of his having had a Muslim father."

On Jews' reaction towards Obama:

The inability of Jew to recognize political realities is one of the marvels of human nature. James Baker once, with typical nastiness, alluded to it when he responded to expressions of American-Jewish unhappiness with his Middle East policies as follows: 'F— the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.” Now Barack Obama seems to be saying: “F— the Jews, they always vote for us anyway.'

On Obama's choice of Charles Freeman for chairman of the National Intelligence Council:

Freeman has blamed Israel not only for 9/11 and world terrorism but for nearly every evil on the globe with the (possible) exception of bird flu.

Read the rest of the article on the Commentary blog