POLLER’S FINAL INSTALLMENT: THE GREAT REVERSE SCHLEP

Nidra has outdone herself in this, her last installment of what seems forever ago, The Great Reverse Schlep (*sigh*). This is my favorite Poller column – it tells the story, our story, why we do it, how we do it and why we are indefatigable

THE GREAT REVERSE SCHLEP PART 3 &
CONCLUSION

Think of it—the money that wasn’t
spent to send us on speaking tours last year is gone now, washed away
with the stock market crash, swallowed up in the subprime shill, down
the drain, vanished in quantities I can’t even imagine. All we
needed was a smidgeon. A smidgeon of money, a smidgeon of
organizational savvy, a handful of people who knew what was at stake
and recognized what we could do. I rang e-mail doorbells every few
months. To no avail. And most of my editors, too, lent me a deaf ear
on that issue. As if an American in Paris couldn’t understand the
fine points of presidential elections back home.

Here, for example:

EURABIAN
OBAMANIA

If
European Obamaniacs had their way, they’d steal every American’s
right to vote and elect BHO president of the USA, the world, and the
heavens above.

Nidra
Poller

Paris,
July 28  2008

The
flames of French Obamania leaped skyward last week when the once and
future president, glowing from his mass rally in Berlin, stopped in
Paris on his way to London. Pushing past the statistics—a recent
poll showed over 80% of the French would vote for him if only they
could—what does this wishful thinking reveal about the expectations
aroused by the charismatic candidate? While Obama worshippers the
world over clamor for a right to vote in the November elections,
their enthusiasm should reciprocally help Americans understand what
is at stake. Two interlocking redemptive fallacies, focused on
Obama’s enhanced racial value and the international dividends this
will incur, are clarified in the light of European incandescence.

Transposed
to France, where 99.99% of the media are rooting for the “first
black American president,” the Obama look-alike would not be a slim
trim sexy Antillean intellectual. He would be a Muslim, a real
Muslim, not a Christian convert. Modern, of course, with no
ostentatious religious symbols that could disturb resolutely secular
French voters, but Muslim in heart and soul, arisen from the
beleaguered immigrant class and placed on high to prove that France,
too, has atoned for its sins of racism and colonialism. Only a Muslim
could fulfill this role. No other minorities—Chinese, Jewish,
Brazilian, etc. —need apply.

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A French newscaster announced last
night the first ripple of the “Obama effect:” The German green
party elected a Turkish immigrant as its president. Youpie. They were
ecstatic. Their own little Obama. And more to come.

Pamela and I don’t think we could
have stopped the Obama disaster with our bare hands. But we know that
as two individuals we assumed the entire responsibility for the fate
of our country. And we stand by that.

  Saturday morning I attended services
with my cousin in one of those gorgeous Boca Raton synagogues. Twin
girls were celebrating their bat mitzvah. Our little Marais
synagogues are shabby, stuffy, and skimpily attended despite their
precious art nouveau architecture. But this American Jewish opulence
is a deadly trap. They don’t know, they don’t know what is
breathing down their necks, they’re insulated, they feel safe, they
indulge in the luxury of voting for a con man who is going to push
Israel up against the wall, they think their man will heal relations
with that suave, sophisticated Europe, haven for cultivated tourists,
and model of universal health care. Hear O Boca Raton, Europe is
already in the grip of the hand that is reaching for your necks.

The Saturday night parlor meeting in a
haven of intelligence. Sliding glass doors open onto the patio and,
beyond, the swimming pool. Portraits of bearded rabbi-scholars, each
one framed with an original specimen of his writings, encourage us.
Precocious children listen intently. Our hostess and her teenage
daughters flit in and out of doors carrying trays of fruits and
cakes. We have a full house of alert, informed, concerned allies. One
guest laments that no matter what you say to an Obama voter, you
can’t change his mind. Another wishes we had come sooner, he would
have taken us to a whole string of residents for the elderly…voter.
And one woman came up after our talk and whispered, “I was
undecided. You convinced me.” I had heard Biden that afternoon
declaim the New Foreign Policy. America would be known “for the
power of its ideas and not the idea of power.” Typical French
rhetoric. Tell it to the Taliban, buddy. They’ll really be
impressed. And bin Laden will walk out of his cave into the light
shed by Holy Obama. Pamela said “Forget the media, that’s
finished, it’s over, don’t expect anything, create new media.”

We’d only started on Friday morning,
and already we were plugged into a vibrant network. It was
exhilarating…and poignant. If only we had been there earlier,
stayed longer, got to people before they voted. The early voting
trick had worked wonders with Florida seniors. Most of them had voted
for Obama before the LA Times video story broke. But so what? Did
they care if Obama was buddy buddy with Rachid Khalidi, lied about
it, added to the flames at an Israel bashing dinner in Khalidi’’s
honor? 

SOS! Informed that NY Congressman
Jerrold Nadler would be preaching Obama at the Boca Raton synagogue
on Sunday afternoon we promised to be there to confront him.

A whiff of the Florida night and back
into the white Trentomobile that escorted us to our respective
lodgings… And picked us up Sunday morning for the event at Wynmoor
retirement center. We drew a pretty good audience…mainly drawn from
the tiny minority of McCain-Palin voters lost in a vast Obamaland of
transplanted Northerners with NY and NJ mentalities intact. A few
indignant women slammed their walkers as they stormed out,
complaining they had been misled about the tone of the meeting, but
one brave Obama fan agreed to hear us out and ask us tough questions.

Tom had briefed us on the way down, and
I think we gave our best performance that morning. We were rewarded
with a quick visit to the windswept Delray beach followed by lunch in
an Italian restaurant… calamari fritti e tutti quanti. We ran back
to the hotel, Pamela was charging batteries…camera, computer, or
both. I sit back in admiration of her high-tech operation that picks
up speed as we go, inputting, downloading, broadcasting, all from a
batch of material that could fit into a small picnic basket. I work
without instruments, soaking up impressions, trusting my memory and
wordsmithing to bring you the behind the scenes story…delivered in
fits and starts due to circumstances beyond my control.

Oops, something is missing from
Pamela’s pint size broadcasting network. No problem. It’s Sunday
afternoon in the US of A. We stop at a Radio Shack (or is it a Best
Buy?), she dashes in like Superwoman slipping into a phone booth and
I muse on the tangle of regulations, derogations, and conflicts over
doing business on Sunday in France. Workers want it, unions are
against it, the government can’t get out of the mess and just say
“Be Free and Prosper.” Tom drives around the parking lot, comes
back to the starting point, and we find Pamela folded into four with
uncontrollable laughter. She’s fitting the thingamajig to her
computer, laughing her head off, and telling us how she’d found
what she needed, purchased it, ran out of the store faster than the
speed of light, and beelined for …ha ho hee ha…the Trentomobile
but…oh ho hoo ha…it wasn’t that white car it was another
white car…aie aie aie…and the occupants were flipping (lucky they
didn’t shoot first and flip afterward)…when suddenly…now we’re
all laughing our heads off…she realized…and we pulled up…and,
still hilarious, she starts downloading or uploading or both.

There’s a plethora of white cars in
Florida. But only one Trentomobile.

I know this Boca Raton synagogue at
Montoya Circle. I spoke there about a year and a half ago. Had a huge
audience. I told them about antisemitism, anti-Zionism,
anti-Americanism in France… the atrocious murder of Ilan Halimi,
lured, held hostage for 3 weeks, tormented, tortured to death in a
homemade death camp in a banlieue of Paris.

Today, Jerrold Nadler, representative
of the Soho, Village, Chelsea etc. yuppies, is there to talk up
Obama–kosher for the presidency. I don’t suppose the Yes You Can
Man has such a huge following in this Orthodox synagogue, but his
groupies are there with badges and leaflets. Waiting outside I meet
the mother of McCain’s Jewish Outreach guy. She tells me that
Michelle Obama attended the wedding of Khalidi’s daughter…just
two weeks ago.

We split up and blend into the
audience. Nadler’s spiel is familiar stuff to me. He’s retailing
the European foreign policy nonsense I hear every day.  Obama is good
for Israel because he’s going to push forward the peace process.
There’s no other way so let’s get on with it. McCain’s a
hothead. Wants to go to war with Russia over Georgia. Naw! Let
Russian take care of its own front yard. Would we want Russian troops
on our doorstep? So? Let them have Georgia, what do we need with
Georgia, we’ve got our hands full already. Iran. Ah! This Bush
administration pretends to talk tough but where did it get them? We
know what to do with Iran. Give them a clear choice! You play ball
with us, and we’ll be your good buddies. We’ll trade, we’ll
schmooze, we’ll hang out. If not? Hoowoo, watch out, we’re going
to give you some sanctions like you never saw in your life. And of
course Obama will heal our spats with our European allies. Yeah,
sure, and what else is old?

Pamela gets to ask a question and the
fun begins. She wants to know why Obama attracts such unsavory
endorsements. Hamas, Hizbullah, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam,
Ghadafi…you name it. Nadler is no dupe! Look, y’have to
understand, those people, they’re not stupid, they’re evil but
they’re not stupid (watch out, here comes the punch line)…they
endorse Obama so people will vote for McCain!!! Now tell me the
Congressman is not sophisticated. Who would have ever thought of that
one? Hamas, Hizbullah, etc. want McCain to win.

Pamela persists: There are phone banks
in Gaza.

Nadler: Phone banks in Gaza? Where’d
you get that story? From some stupid blog? There’s no phone banks
in Gaza? If there were it would be all over the media, it would be a
big problem for the campaign.

How many times did I see the Gaza phone
banks on French TV? But let’s grant Nadler the greater truth: if
everything we know about Obama were in the—mainstream—media it
would be a big problem for the campaign. But it isn’t. So it’s
created a big problem for all of us. But of course at that point in
time, on November 2, 2008, we’re still pinning our hopes on that
good old American common sense. We think McCain will win.

Now comes a Big Moment:

We jump into the Trentomobile. Tom
pulls out his Blackberry. And gives us a preview of the Big Catch: a
video of Nadler saying Obama “didn’t have the political courage
to make a statement by walking out of Wright’s church.” Whoopy,
this is the nugget we’ve been panning for. Someone had stopped
Nadler in the hallway as he was about to leave the synagogue, no
doubt satisfied with his brilliant performance, and asked him why
Obama stayed in Wright’s church for 20 years. Nadler confides his
“guess.” He’s a young man, he wants to go into politics, he
comes to Chicago, doesn’t know anybody, Wright’s got 8,000 people
in his church [not so, he had about 50 when Obama first joined]…
Two years go by, he realizes the guy’s a lunatic, he doesn’t have
the political courage to make a statement by leaving the church…that
congregation of 8,000…

“For twenty years?”

“Yeah, for twenty years.”

And we’ve got the whole thing on
tape. Before we reach our next destination, it’s passed from the
Blackberry to the Atlas computer and out to the world. Here’s the
guy who flew down from New York to vouch for Obama in a synagogue,
and before he’s out the door he admits his hero didn’t have the
political courage to stand up and walk out of the Jew-hating Jeremiah
Wright’s church. The same Nadler who had the nerve to say—in a
synagogue—that Jews who say bad things about Obama are guilty
of lachon hora [the sin of calumny] now admits, as he is walking out
the door, that what we were saying is true.

Were we riding high? I tell you! We’d
bagged the white whale after a scant three days at sea.

I thought someone said Giuliani would
be at the rally, maybe I misunderstood, maybe he didn’t make it. We
got there late, but just in time to see our darling Allen West, soak
up a bit of that luscious Florida night, and mill around with many of
our new buddies. Some of them were going on to Miami where McCain
would be speaking ‘round about midnight.

We opted for a little private
celebration to show our appreciation for Tom who had been picking up
all the tabs. Pamela and I invited for a splurge dinner in an upscale
seafood place located in the closest thing to a European  style
neighborhood with restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques on the ground
floor, apartments above, sidewalks, squares, and fountains…a real
place where life is lived. Pamela’s pocket broadcaster had been
chugging since the break of day. Now it was guzzling away behind the
bar–she tipped the barman to keep an eye on it—while we delighted
in stone crabs, great wine, and myriad delicacies. We walked out into
the tropical night, Pamela holding her computer like a giant pair of
castanets.

The next evening I was watching FoxNews
without the sound (I don’t like headphones) as my JetBlue flight
approached Washington, and what do I see? Three little incrustations:
Wright, Obama, Nadler, and the quote “He didn’t have the
political courage…” Bingo! Later that evening Greta van Susteren
played the whole video. Unfortunately she invited a little Howdy
Doody from Politico to comment, which he did, dismally. But Greta
really captured the essence of the incident, and said so at length
and in detail.

That and a nickel could have kept Obama
from winning, but it didn’t happen and now what will they say for
themselves, the ones who voted for him, the ones who told Jews to
close their eyes and vote for him? And all those clever journalists
who managed to write about him in measured terms, as if he were a
normal candidate in a normal election? They didn’t miss a step.
They were out there on the 5^th of November chatting about
how he might do this and might not do that. Don’t they feel the
slightest bit responsible for what happened? The MSM lied, cheated,
and stole just like their hero. But many so-called conservative media
fell down on the job and should be asking themselves why instead of
clinging to their perches and blithely understating the disaster.

The most powerful nation in the free
world has just handed over the keys to a snooty kid with a head full
of dangerous isms and a closet full of radical hacks and he is going
to wreck the place something terrible. It’s simple: the man is the
continuation of what he was, he is the outcome of what he has done up
to now, he will govern as he campaigned. Keeping the truth about
Obama behind a stone wall didn’t make it go away. It’s in your
face now, America.

Zawahiri has already stepped up to the
plate. Please let me know if a single Obama disciple, Obama
apologist, Obama voter, Obama-loving journalist has come forward to
explain why Zawahiri doesn’t understand that he is supposed to love
us now that we’ve put B. Hussein O’s face on our repentant
nation? Love us, yes, he’s going to love us to bits. But how come
he doesn’t understand the YesWeCan ethic? How come he doesn’t
appreciate our post-racial generosity? Ahh, what a shame your NY
Times intellectuals didn’t tell you about Muslim contempt for
Blacks! Didn’t we warn you that Muslims could rightfully see the
president-elect as a despicable apostate and not a shining emblem of
diversity?

Meanwhile, it looks like he’s going
to fill his cabinet with Clinton era retreads. Has the Washington
Post gulped? Is MSNBC surprised? Does the Jewish Council for Research
and Education (proud producers of the schlocky Sarah Silverman Great
Schlep operation & film) have second thoughts? Since they didn’t
have first thoughts, it wouldn’t be too early to begin!

It seems he’s going to get on board
with the infamous Saudi Peace Plan. Of course that’s been denied.
It seems Robert Malley danced over to whisper tender words in the
ears of the Syrian and Egyptian dictators. That too is denied.
Bashir al Assad and Hosni Mubarak are just guys who lived in Obama’s
neighborhood. And the Saudi Peace Plan is even better than the
Ahmadinejad Extermination Plan because it’s colorless, odorless,
and guiltless. You can destroy Israel, place the rest of the world’s
Jews in mortal danger and outdo the Shoah with the benevolent
complicity of international opinion, and never get caught with an
antisemitic word on your tongue!

And still there are so many who think
it’s just a bump and not a disaster. They don’t think dissent can
be stifled in the U.S. as it is, for example in France. But we just
saw it happen in front of our eyes. As the 12 year-old boy wisely
asked at the parlor meeting: how many people would vote for him if
they knew what you just old us? It’s that simple. 1. Most people
believe what they read in mainstream media and mistrust what is
reported in the new media. 2. Fully documented, verified,
cross-checked information on Barack Obama was available, and
published by, for example, www.atlasshrugs.com.
3. Voters infatuated with Obama would have voted for him anyway. 4. A
far greater portion of independents would have refrained from voting
for him if they were well-informed. 5. If citizens can be so easily
led astray by a campaign, how will they fare when he has all his
fingers on all the buttons of power?

The worldwide hysterical adulation for
the mythical person of Barack Hussein Obama is a terrifying threat to
democracy. As we shall soon see.

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