No second thoughts

[Donald Ian Rankin]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418630016&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

When asked about whether US President Barack Obama was rethinking his decision to give Mary Robinson his nation's highest civilian award, a spokesman for the White House was quoted as saying that the president "had no second thoughts" about giving the former Irish president the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Indeed, the ceremony went off without a hitch and nary a discouraging word as Robinson and 15 other less controversial recipients got their medals amid a blizzard of presidential praise.

Obama lauded Robinson, the woman who presided over the United Nation's anti-Semitic hate fest at the 2001 Durban Conference on racism, as "an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored," and ignored the widespread criticism of the honoree from a wide range of Jewish groups as well as some members of Congress.

Robinson is a longtime foe of the Jewish state and even today holds the post of honorary president of Oxfam, an NGO that gained publicity last week for firing actress Kirstin Davis of Sex and the City fame as its spokeswoman because she also represents Ahava, whose Dead Sea cosmetics are considered off-limits by Israel-haters.

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I find it hilarious that association with Oxfam is presented as evidence of antisemitism...

[Kurska]

1. Can't we just drop this already?

I didn't support her getting the medal in the fist place, but we've been at this for weeks. Nothing that anyone does from taking away her medal or building a 500 foot gold statue of her on the white house lawn will make this situation any better.

Can't we just let this die?