Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, July 23 2008 @ 10:42 AM CST
Once again an Israeli journalist asked the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee how he’d help prevent a second Holocaust. “Senator can you assure Israel that there will be no second Holocaust despite Iran’s threat to wipe us off the map?” he asked.
Obama demurred, saying that it wasn’t appropriate to answer the question there.
“This is Yad Vashem!” the journalist responded.
Obama said he would answer the question at a later press availability.
Yad Vashem[*2] , by the way, is the memorial in Israel to the six million people slaughtered in The Holocaust.
Senator Obama thinks it isn’t appropriate to address the possibility of a second Holocaust at the site dedicated to remembrance of the first one? Huh? He couldn’t come up with something, despite having been asked the question TWICE?
Come on, Obama . . . couldn’t you come up with something like “Well, I think it’s important for everyone to, personally as well as politically, do everything they can to make sure another Holocaust doesn’t happen.” Why couldn’t he say that? He has to go back and triangulate with his handlers and advisors before saying that another Holocaust would be a bad thing? Really?
Via Gateway Pundit[*3]