Route 17: Obama And Father Coughlin

When Father Charles Coughlin, the most incendiary anti-Semitic preacher of the 1930s, supported Huey Long, do you think Jewish Democrats rolled over and charged that there some unpleasant preachers supporting Alf Landon, too, or do you think Jews in the 1930s had more dignity than that?

Let’s pretend: If Herbert Hoover was a member and financial supporter of Father Coughlin’s church for 20 years, would liberal Jews have said, hey, I’ve been to shuls where I disagreed with the rabbi, too?

Remember, a few months ago, when left-wing Democrats told us how terrible it was that candidate Mike Huckabee was preaching from a pulpit during his campaign? What exactly did Huckabee ever say that made you feel more uncomfortable than the word of God as preached by Barack Obama’s mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Now that Huckabee is out of the race it is suddenly a smear to bring up candidates and their pulpits.

Isn’t it ironic that it now matters less that Obama’s father was a Moslem but it matters more that his father-figure is a Christian, Rev. Wright? Oh, I’ve been warned by Obama supporters that it is “a smear” to say Obama’s father was Moslem. Is it now a smear to bring up Obama’s Christianity? What else can’t we discuss?

Just a few weeks ago, in December, Rev. Wright, who is even more toxic than Father Coughlin, and whose toxic views were already well known, certainly by Obama, was appointed by Obama to Obama’s Religious Leadership Council before the heat got too hot. Let’s assume the preposterous notion that Obama wasn’t in church any time Father Coughlin, uh, Rev. Wright poured gasoline on his congregants’ attitudes toward Jews and the United States. But do you think Obama reads the church bulletin? How about when the July 10, 2007 bulletin that featured a major article on Obama? Do you think the politician checked it out, to see what was said about him, as any politician would?

Do you think Obama would have seen the viciously anti-Semitic article that directly preceded the one about him?

Wasn’t that what the so-called black-Jewish alliance was supposed to be about, good men refusing to take their time when it was past time to stand up to evil? Or was that alliance only a one-way street, demanding dignity for blacks but not demanding dignity for Jews, demanding that you be an obsequious sycophant if the evil being talked about is you, the Jew? Shouldn’t we be terrified about a world in which good men won’t stand up against anti-Semitism, or can only Obama and his mentor speak of the last 200 years?

Hey, am I smearing anybody or do I get a pass, like Jeremiah Wright, because of my unhappy childhood, knowing my relatives were slaves in Egypt and Poland?

It is June 10, 2007. You’re walking down 95th Street in Chicago and step into the Trinity Church. One of the ushers hands you the weekly bulletin and program (read it here).  On Page 8, you can read the Pastor’s Page, written this week by Ali Baghdadi, a rank anti-Semite, with Pastor Wright’s obvious approval. The Pastor’s Page will tell you how and why the Jews are worse than Nazis; how the Jews worked on “an ethnic bomb that killed blacks and Arabs.” Then, on Page 12, you can read about how the media – as far back as last summer -- was trying to smear Obama by linking him to his own church.

Is that a smear?  The one thing I learned from Obama and his Jews is that it’s okay to smear everyone – Obama’s grandmother, Evangelicals who support Israel and McCain, rabbis who support Likud and are therefore supposedly like Wright – you can smear everyone except Obama. You can say the worst things about everybody; you can drag Avi Weiss into this -- comparing him to Jeremiah Wright, as some of Obama’s Jewish journalists have done (see this link). Obama’s writers’ can smear Avi Weiss’ name but I can’t even say Obama’s middle name. Terrific, the way they have it all worked out.

I don’t want to hear any more from Obama’s Jews about smears.

I don’t want to hear any more from Obama’s Jews about why I’m supposed to be afraid of Evangelicals.

Go ahead. Read Obama’s favorite church bulletin for yourself. Make up your own mind. Do you think it’s like anything you’ve ever seen in any place where you ever prayed or is it closer to Der Sturmer?

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