Thomas Friedman's article today is pretty much pro Obama

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18friedman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

"OBAMA AND THE JEWS

Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said there has to be “an end” to the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank “that began in 1967.” Yikes!

Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama said that not only must Israel be secure, but that any peace agreement “must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people.” Yikes!

Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said “the establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it.” Yikes! Yikes! Yikes!

Those are the kind of rumors one can hear circulating among American Jews these days about whether Barack Obama harbors secret pro-Palestinian leanings. I confess: All of the above phrases are accurate. I did not make them up.

There’s just one thing: None of them were uttered by Barack Obama. They are all direct quotes from President George W. Bush in the last two years..."

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1. there's no real reason for strong Israel supporters like Friedman to fear Obama

the idea that Obama's support for Israel is weak is totally phony.

Friedman's a phony, but a subtle one. The Obama appeaser hoax is for crude phonies like Bush and Kevin James and Hugh Hewitt and the like.

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2. I was looking at "The Jerusalem Post" and "Haaretz" and I noticed

there is NOT a strong anti Obama leaning in these publications. I don't think bush's propaganda is working. (Well it might be amongst some of Thomas Friedman's crazed right wing friends. But, in general I don't think it is).