Thursday, August 7, 2008

Obama's Official Campaign Site and Anti-Semitism

This doesn't look good for Barack Obama.

It turns out that his official campaign site is a gathering place for anti-Semites.

From Aaron Klein at WorldNetDaily:

Jews should be "burned" and "thrown in the oven."

Israel murdered 6 million Arabs.

Jews control American politics and dictate decisions of war and peace.

The Jewish state is leading a "Holocaust" against the Palestinian people and was responsible for 9/11.

The above are just a sampling of a large volume of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda that can be found on user-generated pages on Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign website, which allows registered members to form groups and post content in online "community" blogs.

The Obama campaign does not monitor all blog material but says it removes offending posts brought to the attention of site administrators.

A search through the community blogs on Obama's official site under such key words as "Zionists," "Israel Lobby," or "Jews" brings up thousands of entries, some containing what can easily be described as hate material.

Apparently, users on Obama's site don't find the hate material offensive enough to bring to the attention of administrators.

That says a great deal about Obama's supporters.

It's not all peace, love, and understanding.

...Anti-Semitic rhetoric is not limited to blog entries alone, but can also be found in user comments on some of the blog postings.

For example, a comment on a blog discussing energy, reads "Burn something else besides oil...start with the Zionists."

Although Obama's site has a disclaimer, "Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign," I don't think that bit of CYA is enough.

Obama is providing a forum for people to post despicable things.

He should get out of the business of hosting blogs. His campaign is doing an incredibly poor job of monitoring discussion on its own site.

If Obama can't manage his website, why should we trust him with running the country?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I emailed this to Sean Hannity and I think I will to other conservative media outlets as well. People - especially Jews - need to know about this.

Mary said...

I think it's a very troubling story.