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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (55459)	11/14/2008 8:21:55 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224648

Obama top aide apologizes to Arabs November 13, 2008, washingtontimes.com Buzz up!CHICAGO (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff apologized to the Arab-American community on Thursday for remarks his father made to an Israeli newspaper. Last week, Benjamin Emanuel talked about his son Rahm Emanuel's new job and told the Israeli daily Ma'ariv that "obviously he'll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to be mopping floors at the White House." That prompted an outcry from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which called on Rahm Emanuel, who is Jewish, to condemn the "unacceptable smear." On Thursday, Rahm Emanuel called the group's president, Mary Rose Oakar, to apologize on behalf of his family. "These are not the values upon which I was raised or those of my family," the group quoted him as saying. Oakar said the apology was accepted. Emanuel spokesman Nick Papas confirmed the phone call and said Emanuel "offered to meet with representatives of the Arab-American community at an appropriate time in the future."

To: Neeka who wrote (55459)	11/16/2008 3:12:00 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

"democrats bitter because they are inherently sad, lonely, miserable, etc, etc." Well, that's all true of me, but then I'm not a Democrat, so I can't say what Democrats are really like. The mere idea of being "labeled" as one party or the other kinda irks me because that seems to be against the whole idea our Founding Fathers initially had. I think they wanted people to be able to look at the issues and decide which person best represented their views. The Republicans kinda LOST me when they went to "credit card" or "borrow and spend" economics under Reagan. They also seemed to forget Eisenhower's comments about not letting the Military Industrial Complex run the Country. Barry Goldwater would have thought Reagan way off base on economics and he would have been embarrassed at the thought of HIS Party using religious fundamentalism to DIVIDE the Country.