[From 5/14/08, about John Boehner's attempts to paint Barack Obama as anti-Semitic]
To the editor:
On Tuesday, Rep. John Boehner took some words of Barack Obama—given in an interview to The Atlantic magazine— out of context to imply that he is an anti-Semite. “It is truly disappointing” said Boehner, “that Senator Obama called Israel a ‘constant wound,’ ‘constant sore,’ and that it ‘infect[s] all of our foreign policy.’”
The context of Obama’s remarks clearly indicate that his metaphor referred to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not Israel itself. Boehner knows this.
It is unfortunate that many Americans will use Boehner’s comments to claim that Obama is anti-Semitic.
What’s wrong, GOP? Can’t you defeat Obama this November without lying about him?
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