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Obama Did Not Leak His Prayer
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs I reported Friday, an Israeli newspaper published the prayer that Barack Obama left in a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The note was pried from the sacred site by a seminary student, in a frenzy of prayer removal. The move to publish the note has been widely criticized. Yesterday, The New Republic, via Caleb Howe and Redstate, reported that Barack Obama had released the note himself, prior to the theft. The basis for the claim? An anonymous spokesperson for the paper, Ma'ariv, and the lack of a denial from the Obama campaign. To their credit, they have since published a retraction ...
Paper Publishes Obama's Western Wall Prayer
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyDuring his trip to Israel this week, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama left a written prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. According to the AP, the Maariv Daily, an Israeli newspaper, has published the prayer. Dad, things are great here. Please send more money. Love, Barack. I kid. I'm actually not going to reprint the prayer here, but you can check out the AP story if you really want to. It may seem paradoxical to make a joke about the prayer, then refuse to reprint, but there are two principles at work here. In comedy, nothing is sacred. In a ...
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