RJC and NJDC: Cartoon vs. Ad
By Ami Eden on May 22, 2008 in Barack Obama, Featured, Florida, John McCain, Presidential Race |
The Republican Jewish Coalition has an ad in Florida newspapers today, timed to Barack Obama’s visit to the Sunshine State. Last week, the National Jewish Democratic Council circulated its own statement and original cartoon taking aim at John McCain.
Which is more effective?
UPDATE: Here’s the NJDC’s response to the RJC ad.
Sadly the demonization between Jews on whether or not Mcain and Israel or the unkown Obama.
Democrats should want to examine Obama and really find out who he is not what he says he is. He had made different statements on questioned incidents in his church and on his Pastor. why is that not a legitiament issue??? For us all????
David Eckhaus | May 22, 2008 | Reply
The NJDC has a long tradition of using its nominally Jewish identity to deceive Jewish voters. An example was its whitewash of MoveOn.org’s sponsorship of anti-Semitic and other hate speech on its now disgraced Action Forum, and another is the false information it provided about the Christian computer game “Left Behind: Eternal Forces.” (NJDC lied about the game encouraging players to kill everyone who wouldn’t convert to Christianity.) Now NJDC is citing only part of what McCain said, i.e. taking material out of context, to smear him.
The complete quote is here:
http://cayankee.blogs.com/caya.....index.html
Jamie Rubin: “Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have been in the past, in working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is in now charge?”
Sen. John McCain: “They’re the government and sooner or later we‘re going to have to deal with them in one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas is because of their dedication to violence and the things they not only espouse but practice, so, but it’s a new reality in the Middle East. And I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and a decent future then they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.”
Rubin: “So should the United States be dealing with that new reality through normal diplomatic contacts to get the job done for the United States?”
Sen. McCain: “I think the United States should take a step back, see what they do when they form their government, see what their policies are, and see the ways that we can engage with them, and if there aren’t any, there may be a hiatus. But I think part of the relationship is going to be dictated by how Hamas acts, not how the United States acts.”
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The last sentence suggests very strongly that McCain would not talk to Hamas unless it changed its behavior. The bottom line is that NJDC is simply not trustworthy.
Bill Levinson | May 23, 2008 | Reply
The fact that Obama is in fact an appeaser (like Chamberlain, only worse–Chamberlain was negotiating with a rational albeit evil dictator, while the terrorist leaders are irrational) is reinforced by his close association with MoveOn.org.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Pariser “[Eli] Pariser’s rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th.”
That’s “9/11,” not Iraq, for anyone who might have missed it. Eli Pariser, who is responsible for MoveOn.org’s defamatory insult to General David Petraeus, wanted a nonmilitary response to the mass murder of 3000 Americans. Barack Obama solicited and accepted his endorsement. It speaks for itself. Obama is an appeaser who cannot be relied upon to defend the United States from an actual attack on its soil.
Bill Levinson | May 27, 2008 | Reply
Every vote for Barack Hussein will put a nail in the coffin of Israel. Only Hillary Clinton, or John McCain can be trusted to stand with Israel.
Wake up and save Israel. With Barack Hussein as president, all aid to Israel will slow down to a trinkle the the arab states will overrun her.
Alan Schneider | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply