Friday 7 August 2009

Israel Matzav: The perfect President for a nation without values

The perfect President for a nation without values

I've already done a number of posts about the Obama administration's selection of Mary Robinson to receive the medal of freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. A lot of people assume that Robinson's selection was another foul-up by the White House. They assume that she wasn't vetted properly. Alternatively, people assume that Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod - the two people most responsible for checking her out - didn't think her record of support for terrorism mattered, but they don't place the blame on Obama himself. The strongest accusation I saw against Obama was that he is a racial opportunist, but that accusation was prompted by 'Gatesgate' and not by Mary Robinson.

President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that said "The buck stops here." Ultimately, Barack Obama is responsible for Mary Robinson's selection, and that selection says a lot about how Barack Obama relates to Jews and to Israel.
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Israel Matzav: The perfect President for a nation without values

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