Obama’s philosemitic network reflects the new establishment
By Philip Weiss on July 26, 2010
Maureen Dowd points out wisely that the Obama administration is too white. There are only two blacks in the administration, she says.
unlike Bill Clinton, who never needed help fathoming Southern black culture, Obama lacks advisers who are descended from the central African-American experience, ones who understand “the slave thing,” as a top black Democrat dryly puts it.
The first black president should expand beyond his campaign security blanket, the smug cordon of overprotective white guys surrounding him — a long political tradition underscored by Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 when she complained about the “smart-ass white boys” from Walter Mondale’s campaign who tried to boss her around.
That “smug cordon” that Dowd astutely describes is also a philosemitic one. Israel lobbyist Mitchell Bard points out all the Jews in the Obama administration.
David Axelrod (2009- ) Senior Advisor to the President; Jared Bernstein (2009- ) Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President; Rahm Emanuel (2009- ) Chief of Staff; Lee Feinstein (2009- ) Foreign Policy Advisor; Gary Gensler (2009- ) Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Elena Kagan (2009- ) Solicitor General of the United States; Ronald Klain (2009- ) Chief of Staff to the Vice President; Jack Lew (2009- ) Deputy Secretary of State; Eric Lynn (2009- ) Middle East Policy Advisor; Peter Orszag (2009- ) Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Dennis Ross (2009- ) Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State; Mara Rudman (2009- ) Foreign Policy Advisor; Mary Schapiro (2009- ) Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Dan Shapiro (2009- ) Head of Middle East desk at the National Security Council; James B. Steinberg (2009- ) Deputy Secretary of State; Lawrence Summers (2009- ) Director National Economic Council; Mona Sutphen (2009- ) Deputy White House Chief of Staff
I think Bard may be missing a Shapiro (I’m guessing the asst secy of State is Jewish), as well as Stuart Levey, the Iran guy in Treasury, and czar Cass Sunstein. My impression is that Obama’s philosemitism outstrips Clinton’s and Bush’s. And the lesson is that Obama is a conservative person temperamentally who has a keen sense of where American power lies. Originally an outsider from a scattered family in the west, he gravitated unerringly toward the east coast Harvard establishment; and the American establishment today has a prominent Jewish component…
The WASPs are over; none are on the Supreme Court today. The significance of these numbers is the effect on Middle East policy. And of course, along with that, the absence of Arab-Americans; and the fact that people like Rashid Khalidi, Chas Freeman and Rob Malley (yes, a Jew, but a progressive one) are exiled from this braintrust.
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It’s the double standard! All my life I’ve heard about white privilege and how bad Americans are. The poor (fill in minority group here). The bad white Americans did (fill in tragedy here). It is racist bigotry for generic Americans to advocate for themselves , their country or their interests.
Yet… even though only a bigot would mention Jewish media control, Jewish political control or Jewish economic control… it might by okay to say something IF you are Jewish and are allowed the privilege of speech.
Why is it okay for Jews or any other group to act as a tribe, an affiliation, (a gang), an identifiable interest but not for Gentiles to want to maintain political and economic control of their own destiny?
I’ve been searching for the words to describe this, and that is one key: it’s the double standard. It’s okay for the tribe to be tribal, even though for years they have said they aren’t, that such was only the imaginings of the anti-Semitic.
I saw a statistic online, and I don’t know if it is accurate, but it claimed the Jews are about one and a half percent of the US population and control 40% of the wealth. If true, that is an astounding statistic. And while I know Jews place great emphasis on education and are intelligent and ambitious, etc., which would explain their being above average in wealth, it also points to a privilege of network that all the WASPs stacked end to end could never have hoped to achieve – and was the very thing affirmative action sought to dismantle. Why is the one case decried and the other discreetly celebrated? The new, accepted bigotry? The new class of privilege, where the generic American is the new whipping boy for every nascent race-based power group with the Jews at the top of the new world order? What an achievement for the world to have done nothing to change the evils, but only to have changed the jerseys.
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You gorget that Jews once in power–hire appoint Jews only. It has nothing to do with being smart but belonging to a clut. One word that is becoming a standard to be band from internet postings-Ashkenazism.
The germans were fleeced into beLIEving that Nazi was non-Jewish. But these same cult got Germany in a mess –millions died. This could repeat itself in USA–The Hitler regime was hardcore zionist and controlled by the same folks,getting us to fight Iran and next China/Russia.
Obama is surrounded by Jews. This is nothing of news. Nixon tapes after one week in office said–“I’m surrounded by soooo many FKN Jews “
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We need to start using two terms for these people. Jew should be used to describe a person’s religious affiliation. Zionist is a political term for citizens, dual citizens, and people promoting the political interests of Israel. The Jews who live outside of Israel are taking the heat for the actions of Zionists/Israelis.
If Jew is to be used as a nationality, then Israel should be using DNA that traces their ancestry. This should eliminate a lot of Russians and Eastern Europeans who claim to be Jewish.
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Israelis would argue that its the Jewish Lobby (as it is called in Israel) that emboldens the Zionist regime. That without US backing Israel would have become a more normal nation.
I agree that religion is a separate issue but I can’t say the same about the question of where the “heat” belongs.
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Not only Obama’s Administration is Jewish.
Whatever happen to the separation of Church and State that Obama was supposed to bring???
Well, with the Jewish Administration in the Obama White House, it’s more a marriage of Church and State as in Talmudic Judism.
Ain’t that the reason why we’re in Iraqi, Afghanistan and soon to be Iran.
For the Church/Religion state of Israel!!!
Heck talk about mixing religion and politics, before one even gets to serve in Congress, Senate and President.
One has to pledge support to Israel so they can get funding for their campaigns, plus get flown to Israel to put on a yamuke to worshipp the Jews.
Plus funding comes from AIPAC and ADL which are religion based.
Based on the Babylonian Talmud.
Which is respecting an establishment of a church.
Which is a violation of the 1st Amendment.
From the wars and bloodshed, now i understand why the founding fathers wanted a separation of Church and State.
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