Obama the Zionist Journeys to Palestine
Obama understands that American presidents need to be Zionists if a White House brokered Mideast peace is to last.
Obama understands that American presidents need to be Zionists if a White House brokered Mideast peace is to last.
Dan Sweeney | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
After a solid week in which John McCain has epically failed to take the headlines off Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East, and how the prevailing m...
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
At least one major right-wing smear attack on Obama may be gearing up. I'll call it the "Who Sent You" campaign. As weird as it sounds -- and it is ...
Garrett Socol | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home
Personally, I do not care if my president is Christian, Jewish, Lutheran, follows Confucianism, Hindu, Taoist, Presbyterian, Chinese Universalist or an Atheist......and neither should you.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Obama's a pragmatist, not a messiah. He has to win in order to make the changes I want. What merit is there in attacking him for his stance on FISA, now?
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Up until now, the Obama campaign has been smarter in its dealings with controversy, but they feared what some right wing Republicans will do with a picture of Barack Obama and, god-forbid, a Muslim.
Omid Memarian | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
Like exports such as McDonald's, Disneyland and Starbucks, America's horrible characterization of Islam has spread to other countries. With a speech on this issue, Obama could start to end this trend.
Justin Frank | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
If the war on terror is a fear-based war against Muslim extremists, how will people respond to Obama's middle name, Hussein?
Mark Kleiman | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
I'm glad the NYT public editor called out the op-ed editor on their "Obama is a Muslim apostate" nonsense. But there's a deeper pathology here, one that extends well beyond the opinion pages.
Michelle Pilecki | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
So you'd think the US would want to hold onto good nuclear physicists, right? Especially American citizens who have been active in the community as well as excellent scientists?
Mariangela Anzalone | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
Obama is not Muslim. He's not a terrorist, either. He has said so many, many times. Yet the internet campaign continues. Addressing the matter again this week, he at last said what I wanted to hear.
Evan Kleiman | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living
My boyfriend was a Persian Muslim. Eventually my mother said the sentence I dreaded. "We should have his family over for Passover. "
Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living
In an effort to improve Muslim-Jewish relations in NYC, the city's most prominent mosque and the flagship seminary of the Jewish Conservative movement have reached out to one another.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
Can you explain to me why thoughtful people, including several renowned public intellectuals, oppose the right of women to choose to wear headscarves -- on campuses out of all places?
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
How do we welcome him into the US? Why, detain him and confiscate his passport, of course. What else do you do with a Muslim, even if he is a Nobel Pe...
Art Levine | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
All the smear tactics aimed at Barack Obama appear to be working with key segments of the voters who support Hillary -- no matter how false the charges.
Tim Roemer | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
The Muslim world has as much stake as the United States in defeating violent extremism, and we must bridge this communication gap.
August J. Pollak | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
We Democrats are dangerously close to helping the Republicans score a renewal of the White House lease because the two Democratic front runners are so close in their political philosophies.
Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
The tone in the press makes it sound like Obama possibly being a Muslim would be on par with screwing around behind his wife's back, or being a pedophile.
Tom D'Antoni | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
On Sunday's 60 Minutes, when asked if she believed Obama was a Muslim, Hillary Clinton crossed an unforgivable line.
Jim Wallis | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Like his politics or not, don't disparage Barack Obama's faith, his church, his minister, or his credibility as an eloquent Christian layman who feels a vocation in politics.
Linda Hansen | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home
There have long been Mormons and Muslims and Things That Go Bump on the Right. Scary politics. The fear doctrine has worked so well conservatives have refined it.
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
I fear that we are seeing only the tip of the iceberg of what those who want to push "high-fear buttons" will try and do to slime Barack Obama.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
Memo to the next president: from Morocco to Indonesia, if we (and they) don't blow the opportunity, there is a chance to make the "long war" a far shorter war.
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Steve Posner | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics