Jewish leader: "Israel has no reason to fear Obama"

Jack Rosen, Chairman of the American Jewish Congress, penned an op-ed this week praising Sen. Obama's foreign policy credentials and arguing that those who say that he has limited Middle East experience, and therefore might not be as reliable a friend to Israel, use "faulty reasoning."

Rosen, a hardcore Bush-Cheney campaigner in 2004, points out that Sen. Obama actually has more experience in Middle Eastern affairs than "Reagan, Clinton, and George W. Bush combined at comparable points in their pursuit of the presidency."

In his official capacity [as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee], Obama has made three previous trips to the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. including one to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories as well as Kuwait and Iraq in January 2006; a trip to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan focused on strategies to control the world's supply of conventional weapons, biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction; and one to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad.

How about that, Joe Attack-Dog Lieberman?