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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama is the wrong choice for all
Letters to the Editor | 11/11/08
Posted online at 4:01 AM EST on 11/11/08
To the Editor:
In response to "A Jewish issue" (Nov. 4 issue), American Jews have lost any sense of allegiance to their people and have put Israel into a very dangerous position, electing someone openly described as the "stealth candidate" by hiding his beliefs, philosophy or positions. To vote for someone based on negative reasons, because you didn't like the other candidate, is to abandon responsibility to the winds of change. You would think that Jews, who suffered the Holocaust, would be more careful about riding the public sentiment based on anger and disillusionment, voting someone without joy in his heart or even love, a totally political animal. Nothing he has said or done indicates that he cares about anyone other than himself, and isn't that what we suffered from the last eight years and longer? Who says Obama will be a good president or is even qualified? It is the ultimate form of moral relativism to elect someone out of an antipathy to the other side. It is a form of moral and willful blindness, and the reason to be a Jew is to never falter in the difficulty of taking moral positions that aren't comfortable. Enjoy the ride to oblivion, because that is where Obama will lead to.
-Ian Zwerling
Israel
In response to "A Jewish issue" (Nov. 4 issue), American Jews have lost any sense of allegiance to their people and have put Israel into a very dangerous position, electing someone openly described as the "stealth candidate" by hiding his beliefs, philosophy or positions. To vote for someone based on negative reasons, because you didn't like the other candidate, is to abandon responsibility to the winds of change. You would think that Jews, who suffered the Holocaust, would be more careful about riding the public sentiment based on anger and disillusionment, voting someone without joy in his heart or even love, a totally political animal. Nothing he has said or done indicates that he cares about anyone other than himself, and isn't that what we suffered from the last eight years and longer? Who says Obama will be a good president or is even qualified? It is the ultimate form of moral relativism to elect someone out of an antipathy to the other side. It is a form of moral and willful blindness, and the reason to be a Jew is to never falter in the difficulty of taking moral positions that aren't comfortable. Enjoy the ride to oblivion, because that is where Obama will lead to.
-Ian Zwerling
Israel
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ziggles
posted 11/11/08 @ 10:12 PM EST
Should we vote for the US president based on what's best for the United States or what's best for Israel?
Basing it on what's best for the U.S. seems a bit more logical to me (consider, erm, that this is america, not israel). (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/12/08 @ 2:49 PM EST
Ziggles, Good for America is not a set that is exclusive to Israel, unless we have returned to the days of exclusion. So, in your opinion, to include Obama means excluding Israel, and to you that seems fair. (Continued…)
James
posted 11/12/08 @ 4:58 PM EST
"You would think that Jews, who suffered the Holocaust, would be more careful about riding the public sentiment based on anger and disillusionment, voting someone without joy in his heart or even love, a totally political animal. (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/12/08 @ 7:08 PM EST
My point of making a deal with the devil may not pay off as much as you hope for. Moral relativism is moral blindness in the service of self-interest. (Continued…)
John
posted 11/12/08 @ 7:38 PM EST
They are only extremes if you set the extreme points somewhere near the middle.
In 2000 Bush ran as a moderate and in fact it was hard to tell Gore and Bush apart on most issues. (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/13/08 @ 4:46 AM EST
Do unto others what you would have them do unto you is a recipe for victimization. What would you do unto them after they decide you have no right to exist? Obama would talk to them. (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/13/08 @ 6:01 AM EST
Obama said that Iran is a tiny country, not worth worrying about. Tell that to someone with a tiny cancerous tumor. Tell that when Iran brags about its latest solid-fuel missile test, and its metastasized allies Hamas and Hizbullah. (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/13/08 @ 9:13 AM EST
A good rule of thumb. If one of a countries basic industries is the production of black and white sheets, its a sign of bad tidings. Good sheets make good beds, not good neighbors. (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/13/08 @ 9:46 AM EST
This snippet of poem by Sylvia Plath at Smith helps to describe the sentiment that is the equivalent of the emotion or perspective of ennui:
Jeopardy is jejune now: naïve knight
finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard
of, while blasé princesses indict
tilts at terror as downright absurd
The sentiment is moral relativism. (Continued…)
Ian
posted 11/13/08 @ 2:24 PM EST
During Obama's campaign I complained to his campaign that his slogan, "Change We Can Believe In" sounds like Jihad to me. They later changed it for unknown reasons to Change We Need. (Continued…)
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