Political tidbits: Obama effigy found in Ohio, McCain townhall reaction

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By Eric Fingerhut · October 20, 2008

A man hangs an Obama effigy in his front yard – with a Star of David on the top of his head – and freely admits he doesn't want a black man as president. The Huffington Post has the video from a local TV station in Ohio.
John McCain isn't going to bring up Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but won't ask the Republican Jewish Coalition to stop putting him in their ads, according to Newsweek.
McCain turned down an opportunity from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin yesterday to talk about Wright at a Jewish "tele-town hall meeting."
M.J. Rosenberg rips Riskin for spending years living in Israel and yet presuming to advise U.S. presidential candidates on strategy, at TPM Cafe.
Jim Besser of The Jewish Week felt the McCain meeting seemed too staged.
Menachem Rosensaft on McCain's "pals" like Phil Gramm and Randy Scheunemann, in the Huffington Post.
Here's the National Jewish Democratic Council's newest print ad, making the case that Obama-Biden will protect Israel and achieve energy independence.
And here's the Republican Jewish Coalition's new television ad, using Hillary Clinton to criticize Obama for saying he'd meet with the leaders of rogue states.
Every church and synagogue in the United States is going to receive the anti-radical Islam film Obsession, according to Marketwatch. It's coming enclosed with a new right-wing, anti-gay marriage and anti-abortion publication called The Judeo-Christian View, which is backed by a couple Orthodox rabbis and charges that Obama's support of partial-birth abortion is akin biblically to child sacrifice.
Daniel Pipes plays the Muslim card, claiming that Obama wouldn't get a security clearance if he becomes president.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) tells CBS's "Face The Nation" that Sarah Palin has "really disturbed" the Jewish community in Florida, according to UPI.
Richard Heideman and Steve Grossman face off as surrogates for McCain and Obama in Boston, reports the Boston Globe.
Adam Brickley, one of Sarah Palin's earliest fans in the lower 48, has gone from being an evangelical Christian to a "messianic Jew," notes the New Yorker in a Palin profile.
Our daily look at the Florida Jewish vote today comes from the Chicago Tribune.
The Jewish Press endorses John McCain.
"Family Guy" briefly compared McCain and Palin to Nazis last night, according to Hollywood Today.
Sarah Silverman talks to Katie Couric.