Political tidbits: More guilt by association, a plea to stop talking about Israel
- More guilt by association from the GOP, as he chairman of the Palm Beach Republican Party is e-mailing around a video of an eight-month old speech in which Louis Farrakhan calls Barack Obama "the messiah." Obama already responded to this endorsement in a debate during the primaries: After some badgering from Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton saying that simply denouncing Farrakhan wasn't enough, Obama said he would "reject" the Nation of Islam leader's support.
- Some guilt by association for McCain and Palin, from Menachem Rosensaft in the Huffington Post.
- From Jesse Kornbluth in the Huffington Post ... Yom Kippur letter to Joe Lieberman's rabbis, urging them to "talk to Sen. Lieberman about the hatred the McCain-Palin campaign is encouraging" – and complete with somewhat over-the-top allusions to Kristallnacht.
- Bradley Burston, in Ha'aretz, accuses Sarah Palin for stirring up prejudice and hatred when she talks about Obama.
- In the National Review ... Mona Charen argues that Sarah Silverman's "Great Schlep" video is just one more example of Jews substituting liberalism for their religion – and blames the New York Times for going along with it.
- Shmuel Rosner, in Slate, urges the candidates to stop talking about Israel so much.
- Politico reports that John McCain didn't disclose his affiliation with the U.S. Council for World Freedom as a freshman congressman; his campaign says he didn't have to report the connection.
- In the L.A. Jewish Journal ... former AIPAC head Morris Amitay lays out why he supportd McCain.
- And former top Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross does the same for Obama.
- The Jewish Week talks to some undecided Jewish women about Sarah Palin.
- The Christian Science Monitor weighs in on Obama's "struggles to attract Jewish voters."
- A report on Obama's Jewish outreach efforts in Pennsylvania, from the Jewish Exponent.
- Michael Gerson in the Washington Post on the importance of the Iran threat in making one's choice for president.
- The National Jewish Democratic Council claims the Republican Jewish Coalition is lying in its new ad when it says Obama would be willing to meet personally with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Actually, the NJDC is wrong, because Obama did say that, at the YouTube debate last year (the questioner even puts a photo of Ahmadinejad on the screen when he asks the question) and he said it again two months later after the Iranian president spoke at Columbia University.
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“After some badgering from Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton saying that simply denouncing Farrakhan wasn’t enough, Obama said he would “reject” the Nation of Islam leader’s support.”
That’s right, Russert and Clinton had to ask him at least three times before he would “reject” this well known anti-Semite, racist, and Catholic-hating bigot.
Re: “Obama-hate, and Palin’s war on terror”
“Does she really believe that Barack Obama, and by extension, those who support him, do not see America as a force for good in this world? If she does not, her statement was obscene. If she does, America as a whole is in trouble. And not because she’s right.”
She is right. Obama’s pastor called upon God to curse America, while speaking or publishing blood libels of both America and Israel. And she is right about Obama consorting openly with (self-proclaimed as opposed to convicted) terrorists; Bill Ayers admitted to planting a bomb.
She also should have thrown in, “pals around with racists and anti-Semites,” because Obama openly endorsed Al Sharpton and his National Action Network.
McCain is the logical choice for any Jew practicing Judaism any voter whose primary loyalty is to the United States as opposed to the United Nations, ACORN, Al Sharpton, George Soros, or some similar entity.
jerry alperstein
What makes you think OddMashuggahJob could have become president of Iran without being a sock-puppet of the Mullahs?
Oh, and while Obama has no preconditions, it seems that Iran DOES…
1) all US forces must leave the Mid East;
2) the US must drop all support for Israel.
And, it will come as no surprise to those who know who Obama’s friends and advisors are that he already agrees to them…
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1445/pub_detail.asp
Khalid al-Mansour
Rashid Khalidi
Ingrid Mattson
...just to name three of the worst.
I reapeat, Obama is not a friend to any free person anywhere, least of all to Jews.
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Jerry Alperstein
10/10/08 04:00 PM
Correct me if I am wrong. But did not Obama state that he would meet with the leaders of Iran? The mullahs are the leaders of Iran and not Ahmadinejad.