Pro-Palestine Group Tries To Lobby Obama At Golf Course

Obama only gets one side of the story, the rose colored and blameless Israeli side, so why not lobby him with the other point of view. Change you can believe in is NOT the same old shit we have had for the past 41 years.

Pro-Palestine Group Tries To Lobby Obama At Golf Course

An interesting political moment occurred Monday as Barack Obama was set to play golf with a group of friends.

A couple approached the President-elect's security detail and begged them to deliver a set of "informational" DVDs on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The group delivering the package expressed sympathy for the Palestinian people and concern that Obama's approach to the conflict would mirror that of George W. Bush.

Unfortunately for them, the Secret Service refused to deliver the box. And Obama went on to play his round of golf -- after hitting some poor range balls and instructing the press to stop watching him swing.

Here is the pool report, with the information on the DVDs moved to the top and the golf anecdotes on the bottom.

Prior to leaving for the course at about 11 a.m., a group of five people approached the security checkpoint setup by the U.S. Secret Service and Honolulu police carrying a box wrapped with a gold ribbon. The group, led by Fred and Pat Shepherd from Greenbrae, California and Robert Steiver, 65 of Honolulu, asked the Secret Service if they could deliver the box and a letter to Obama. The Secret Service declined. Speaking to a reporter, Fred Shepherd said they wanted to deliver the box, which once held "Super Gorilla" golf balls but now contained informational DVD's about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. "I don't think he's taking a vacation, he's preparing to be the next President," said Steiver. "I'm deathly afraid he'll continue the failed policies of the Bush administration. I've been suffering with the Palestinians for years."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/29/pro-palestine-group-tries_n_154082.html

for the President-Elect is a good way to get your ass shot, or at least you might end up eating dirt for a minute while a couple of 250 pound guys sit on you.

That's just the way the world is... I'm surprised that the SS was so nonchalant about the whole thing.

such a strange thing? Where does the article suggest that the box was sealed? Why would you assert that it was?

from the story "approached the security checkpoint setup by the U.S. Secret Service and Honolulu police carrying a box wrapped with a gold ribbon."

So, they walked up to the SS detail with a box (the article implies that it had been used for golf balls previously) with a ribbon wrapped around it, and they tell the SS to deliver the package to the President-Elect.

If I was in the Secret Service, I'd take a very dim view of any such package hand delivered.

You do know that ALL packages and mail for the White House is scanned and opened in bomb proof room away from the white house before it's delivered there, right?

so these people thought a few dvds given to the president from some people on a golf course would change U.S. policy towards Israel?

did they honestly think he wasn't aware of the palestinian point of view? I'm sure he appreciates their lack of respect for his intellect.

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"A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

Obama has made no public comment on the strikes, which Israel launched on Saturday. Aides have repeatedly said he is monitoring the situation and continues to receive intelligence briefings but that there is only one U.S. president at a time.

Some critics, however, say Obama did choose to speak out after the attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai in November in which gunmen killed nearly 180 people, condemning them as acts of terrorism.

Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20 from outgoing Republican President George W. Bush, has also spoken out on economic issues facing the United States.

"He is talking about how many jobs he is going to create but he is refusing to speak about this," said one of the protesters, Carolyn Hadfield, 66.

Hadfield was one of eight protesters standing with placards reading "No U.S. support for Israel" and "Gazans need food and medicine, not war" near Obama's rented vacation home in Kailua, an upmarket suburb on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where Obama is in the second week of a vacation with his family.

Obama had not left the compound on Tuesday morning and did not see the protest."

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