Beware the bubbies, Fla. Dems warn http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/beware-the-bubbies-fla-dems-warn/ Ask any general: Tales from the frontlines have a way of upsetting the best laid plans. Strategists at a National Jewish Democratic Council session at the Democratic Party’s Denver convention appeared to be in agreement on why Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the presumptive Democratic nominee, appears to be losing support among Jewish voters. Obama was not disliked, suggested Richard Baehr, a conservative analyst and the editor of American Thinker, as much as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), his Republican rival, was favored among Jews. The challenge for Democrats, agreed Mark Mellman, a top party strategist, was redefining McCain as a hard-line conservative. Nuh-uh, according to two leading Jewish state legislators from Florida: It’s not that McCain was beloved, it’s that Obama was “hated” among elderly Jews in the state. “We need to recognize that here’s a problem,” said State Sen. Steve Geller, the Democratic minority leader in the state senate. “When you’re saying that they just like McCain you’re wrong.” Geller, who represents parts of Broward County, said he had come close to being chased out of the “condos” – shorthand for retirement communities - when he said he backed Obama. State Sen. Nan Rich, a former National Council of Jewish Women president, whose constituency is in Broward and neighboring Miami-Dade, said Obama’s Jewish surrogates have come away from the condo tours “shocked” at the intensity of dislike for their presidential candidate. “I want everyone to leave here knowing we do have a significant issues that has to be addressed if we’re going to have any chance of getting the state of Florida,” she said. Both state senators recommended an aggressive campaign against rumors that Obama is untrustworthy on Israel, and that the candidate tour the “condos” in person. en-us rkampeas@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-08-26T;06:11:05-05:00 Comment by natanostrich@yahoo.com If the “bubbies” in Florida do not vote for Obama it will be because they are concerned about: OBAMA’S NON-COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL IN LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE Debate Question: “If, despite your best diplomatic efforts, Iran attacks Israel, would you be willing to commit U.S. troops in support and defense of Israel? Or would you wait on approval from the U.N. Security Council?” McCain said, “hopefully [Iran] would abandon this quest that they are on for nuclear weapons. But, at the end of the day...we can never allow a second Holocaust to take place.” Obama said, “We’ve got to try to have talks, understanding that we’re not taking military options off the table.” Obama admitted that talks with the Iranians “may not work,” but he did NOT commit to defend Israel in the event of an Iranian attack. OBAMA’S ANTI ISRAEL ASSOCIATIONS Anti Israel Friends - Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, Tony Rezko (and Rezko’s Saddam Hussein connections), Khalid al-Mansour, Edward Said, etc. Anti Israel Middle East Advisors (past and present) - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Joseph Cirincione, Samantha Power, Robert Malley, General Merill “Tony” McPeak, etc. Anti Israel Supporters - George Soros and MoveOn.org, Jimmy Carter, radical leftist organizations, Hamas (they endorsed Obama), Iran (praised Obama on Iranian television), Moammar Qaddafi (praised Obama on Libyan television) OBAMA’S PROMISE OF HIGHER TAXES Doubling the Capital Gains taxes on profits from sales of assets like real estate or stocks Raising the Estate Tax so Uncle Sam gets a larger chunk of your hard earned savings and your heirs will be left with bubkes Raising Income Tax on individuals and businesses earning more than $200K (the amount Obama stated last night at the debate, previously he had said $250K) Global Poverty Tax - Obama plans to tax Americans to send money overseas to impoverished countries. Nationalized Health Care - Obama will create a Canadian-style health care system which all Americans will be forced to buy or have to pay a fine (and like in Canada, Britain and elsewhere, you will have less choice of doctors and may get turned down or have to wait years for an operation, certain prescription medicines, etc.) If the “bubbies” in Florida do not vote for Obama it will be because they are concerned about:

OBAMA’S NON-COMMITMENT TO ISRAEL IN LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE

Debate Question: “If, despite your best diplomatic efforts, Iran attacks Israel, would you be willing to commit U.S. troops in support and defense of Israel? Or would you wait on approval from the U.N. Security Council?”

McCain said, “hopefully [Iran] would abandon this quest that they are on for nuclear weapons. But, at the end of the day...we can never allow a second Holocaust to take place.”

Obama said, “We’ve got to try to have talks, understanding that we’re not taking military options off the table.” Obama admitted that talks with the Iranians “may not work,” but he did NOT commit to defend Israel in the event of an Iranian attack.

OBAMA’S ANTI ISRAEL ASSOCIATIONS

Anti Israel Friends - Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, Tony Rezko (and Rezko’s Saddam Hussein connections), Khalid al-Mansour, Edward Said, etc.

Anti Israel Middle East Advisors (past and present) -
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Joseph Cirincione, Samantha Power, Robert Malley, General Merill “Tony” McPeak, etc.

Anti Israel Supporters - George Soros and MoveOn.org, Jimmy Carter, radical leftist organizations, Hamas (they endorsed Obama), Iran (praised Obama on Iranian television), Moammar Qaddafi (praised Obama on Libyan television)

OBAMA’S PROMISE OF HIGHER TAXES

Doubling the Capital Gains taxes on profits from sales of assets like real estate or stocks

Raising the Estate Tax so Uncle Sam gets a larger chunk of your hard earned savings and your heirs will be left with bubkes

Raising Income Tax on individuals and businesses earning more than $200K (the amount Obama stated last night at the debate, previously he had said $250K)

Global Poverty Tax - Obama plans to tax Americans to send money overseas to impoverished countries.

Nationalized Health Care - Obama will create a Canadian-style health care system which all Americans will be forced to buy or have to pay a fine (and like in Canada, Britain and elsewhere, you will have less choice of doctors and may get turned down or have to wait years for an operation, certain prescription medicines, etc.)

]]> 2009-11-20T;15:25:00-05:00 Comment by 6jaz@queensu.ca There seems to be this notion that Jewish voters are somehow drastically different from other voters.  When you look at it on a state-by-state basis Jews tend to vote the same way as other Americans.  Middle-class Jews in New York vote like middle-class New Yorkers.  Senior citizen Members of the Tribe in Florida vote like most senior citizen Floridians, et c. There seems to be this notion that Jewish voters are somehow drastically different from other voters.  When you look at it on a state-by-state basis Jews tend to vote the same way as other Americans.  Middle-class Jews in New York vote like middle-class New Yorkers.  Senior citizen Members of the Tribe in Florida vote like most senior citizen Floridians, et c.

]]> 2009-11-20T;15:25:00-05:00 Comment by ddreyfus04@comcast.net Bubbies is the Yiddish word for Grandmother. Bubbies is the Yiddish word for Grandmother.

]]> 2009-11-20T;15:25:00-05:00 Comment by cbbk@gmx.de Mark, Of course some jews are racist, some jews are anti-semetic and some jews are just old people who might be scared by what they read or hear. What I didn’t understand from this article is what bubbies are. Does the author mean Bubi as in the German word “Buben”? or maybe Buppies as in Black-Yuppies. Confusing when we’re dealing with stereotypes. As for quoting the American Thinktank, that is not a reliable source for anything but an insight into how the American right-wingers think. Yours earnestly, Chris Brown in Hamburg Mark,

Of course some jews are racist, some jews are anti-semetic and some jews are just old people who might be scared by what they read or hear.

What I didn’t understand from this article is what bubbies are. Does the author mean Bubi as in the German word “Buben”? or maybe Buppies as in Black-Yuppies. Confusing when we’re dealing with stereotypes. As for quoting the American Thinktank, that is not a reliable source for anything but an insight into how the American right-wingers think.

Yours earnestly, Chris Brown in Hamburg

]]> 2009-11-20T;15:25:00-05:00 Comment by markfriedman56@comcast.net Reports like this disturb me because it lends credence to the notion that Jews are racist.  Isn’t there enough suspicion already that Jews don’t like other races?  Reading this only enforces the stereotype and disheartens me. Reports like this disturb me because it lends credence to the notion that Jews are racist.  Isn’t there enough suspicion already that Jews don’t like other races?  Reading this only enforces the stereotype and disheartens me.

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