What is truly shocking is that JFJfP mourned daily on its website all the Palestinian victims of the Gaza War, making no distinction between Hamas terrorist fighters and civilians, and was indifferent to Israeli suffering, and yet calls itself a Jewish group.
Shame on The New York Times for publishing a pipsqueak voice of Jewish extremism.
Jacob Mendlovic
Toronto, Canada
What, Me Worry?
Did you miss President Obama’s most recent fundraising stops in Westchester County?
One ($32,400 per person) was at the home of Camilo Patrigani, the chief executive of Greenwood Energy, a subsidiary of Libra.
The second ($15,000 and more per couple) was at the estate of Carol and Robert Wolf, the former chairman of UBS Americas.
How ironic that Obama visited at a time when 6.6 percent of New Yorkers are out of work (with another 7 percent having given up looking, resulting in a real unemployment rate of 13.6 percent). Is this the “Change We Can Believe In” (Obama’s 2008 campaign promise)?
Obama continues to build up his “frequent flyer” mileage with dozens of political fundraising events. Each trip on Air Force One cost taxpayers a fortune for logistics and Secret Service protection. We are stuck with the tab for police and traffic support.
“Do as I say, not as I do” applies to Obama and Congressional Democrats. Bash the wealthy with one hand but get the big bucks with the other. Those in attendance at these events include the usual 1% crowd along with Wall Street hotshots, lobbyists, trial lawyers, real estate developers, Hollywood celebrities, special interest groups, millionaires, and the Pay to Play crowd.
At those prices, working or middle class people were hard to come by. What is that tired old refrain about the Democratic Party being the friend of the working and middle class, while those greedy old Republicans are the wealthy big-buck fat cats? Seems like Obama prefers hanging out with the 1%.
With all the current crises, including the spike in illegal border crossing, veterans not being treated, illegal IRS investigations, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, civil wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine along with the burgeoning threat of ISIS, one would think the president would spend more time at work.
Barack Obama reminds me of the Mad magazine mascot and cover boy Alfred E. Neuman, famous for saying “What, Me Worry?” with a big grin on his face.
Larry Penner
Great Neck, NY
Editor’s Note: Regarding reader Penner’s
closing comment, we note without comment the
Sept. 2008 cover of Mad magazine.