AIPAC president repudiates Trump's attack on President Obama in a speech at their convention

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) just held its conference in Washington.  All presidential candidates were invited to address the meeting.  Donald Trump used a teleprompter and apparently mostly followed his prepared text.   That didn't stop him from calling President Obama "the worst thing to ever happen to Israel."   The remark was met with prolonged applause, cheers and whistles.

The next morning Lillian Pinkus, president of the organization, repudiated the remarks -- and the audience for its applause of them.

"Last evening, something occurred which has the potential to drive us apart. To divide us. We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage. . . .  There are people in our AIPAC family who were deeply hurt last night, and for that we are deeply sorry. We are disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with or condone. . . .While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States, and our president, Barack Obama.”

Two questions:
   1.   What did they expect when inviting the Vulgarian in Chief, who hasn't a diplomatic bone in his body?   Is this the kind of behavior we could expect from a President Trump at the G-8 Summit Meeting, at the State of the Union address, at the funeral of victims of mass shootings?

   2.  Where was this concern about offending our President when Israel's Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu insulted President Obama by accepting a Republican invitation to speak to a joint session of Congress in opposition to his signature nuclear agreement with Iran, without clearing his visit with the White House?

AIPAC ascribes to the policy of "Israel, right or wrong."   I prefer our friends at JPAC, a more liberal Jewish group that dares to differ with the party line on some things like Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

Ralph