Fearing Obama because one is Hasidic strikes me as sensible as being afraid of the local dogcatcher because one is a parakeet. It depends on a ridiculous conflation of generalities, dogma and false assumptions.

If I wanted to do the Hasidic community a favor, Reb, I would promote widely the following brief excerpt from Franklin Roosevelt:

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Barack Obama is a reasoning and compassionate human being, Reb.


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