Howard Dean Can Draw The Line

DNC Chair Howard Dean, who has no problem insinuating that the Bush administration may have involved itself in a conspiracy to allow the 9/11 attacks to happen, and who thinks nothing of accusing the "white christian" party of "evil," apparently is capable of drawing the line somewhere.

A handful of people at Democratic National Headquarters distributed material critical of Israel during a public forum questioning the Bush administration's Iraq policy, drawing an angry response and charges of anti-Semitism from party chairman Howard Dean on Friday...

...According to Dean, some material distributed within the DNC conference room implied that Israel was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Dean condemned the material in the strongest terms.

"As for any inferences that the United States went to war so Israel could 'dominate' the Middle East or that Israel was in any way behind the horrific September 11th attacks on America, let me say unequivocally that such statements are nothing but vile, anti-Semitic rhetoric," Dean said.

"The inferences are destructive and counterproductive, and have taken away from the true purpose of the Judiciary Committee members' meeting," he said. "The entire Democratic Party remains committed to fighting against such bigotry."

I get it now. Bigotry against Christians or fellow Americans is just fine. But, by God, Dean puts his foot down when it comes to Israel and Jews. I don't suppose it do any good to point out to Dean that he and the far-left's treatment of the "religious right" is slowly taking on the characterisitics of the regime that resulted in this modern "hands off" attitude towards the Jewish state. Here's Stanley Kurtz on the subject.

Traditional Christians are openly excoriated in the mainstream press as evil, fascist, segregationist bigots. Their political speech is placed under legislative threat. Their institutions of higher education are attacked and destroyed.

Given the left's treatment of Christians in this country, Dean's remarks about Jews must be taken with a grain of salt. He is part, no...a leader, of the very machine that is attempting to segregate and entire group of people from American society. Perhaps he, and they, will feel some charity towards Christians after all of this reaches some horrible future conclusion. Then they can pat themselves on the back and once again note how tolerant they are towards peoples that have suffered vast persecution and welcome them into the fold of the Democratic Party.