Obama campaign gets serious in Fla. (UPDATED) http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/obama-campaign-gets-serious-in-fla/ Two weeks ago in Denver, Jewish congressional Democrats refused to acknowledge at a press conference that some South Florida Jewish Democrats were wary of voting for Barack Obama – even though a number of Florida state legislators had told reporters that they saw significant resistance to the Democrat when they campaigned for him at condos in the region. But the Obama campaign is taking those reports about Florida seriously. According to a press release, the campaign has launched six Obama Jewish Community Ledership Committees in Florida, “which include nearly 1000 Jewish leaders across the state in Miami, Broward County, Palm Beach County, Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Sarasota.” Other details of the campaign’s Florida Jewish strategy were contained in the press release, excerpted below: Top national surrogates, like Senators Biden, Schumer and Ben Cardin of Maryland have traveled to Florida to meet with the Jewish community, and others like special Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross will continue to do so on behalf of the campaign. JCLC members make-up a critical component of the campaign’s field operation in predominantly-Jewish neighborhoods and communities, and participate in phone banks and canvasses. The campaign and JCLC members are hosting Jewish outreach house parties. The campaign is providing resources for JCLC members and other Jewish supporters to talk about Senators Obama and Biden’s strong records on issues of importance to the Jewish community in Florida, including standing by Israel, strengthening public education, defending the division between church and state, making sure Social Security remains viable and solvent, ensuring healthcare for all, appointing moderate justices to the Supreme Court and protecting a woman’s right to choose. The Obama campaign has also been bolstered by widespread support of rabbis nationwide, including a number of rabbis in Florida like Rabbi Joel Levine of Palm Beach Gardens. JCLCs will also be launched in Jacksonville, Tallahassee and other Florida cities between now and November. A top Florida Jewish Republican has responded. According to Politico, Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner said Sarah Palin will help attract votes among Jews: Don’t underestimate Gov. Palin’s support in the Jewish community. The Obama campaign’s recent move acknowledges that they have ongoing problem in the Jewish community, and just going around Florida to scare voters about Gov. Palin won’t work. Jewish voters are more thoughtful than just being one issue voters and they wont react well to attacks against her because of her religion - as a religious minority that would be insulting to many Jews. en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2008 2008-09-10T;00:11:08-05:00 Comment by natanostrich@yahoo.com Paul, Two words: President Obama. Has any presidential candidate ever had such a thin resume and such a thick group of far left and anti-Israel people as his mentors, advisors and supporters? For this the Democrats dumped Hillary? Paul, I think you meant to say “Vice” President Palin. McCain looks pretty healthy to me and Governor Palin shows she is quite capable should, G-d forbid, anything happen to the President. She has executive experience, proven leadership skills (she has the highest approval rating in the U.S.) and more importantly, the right ideas on national security and energy. Paul,

Two words:

President Obama.

Has any presidential candidate ever had such a thin resume and such a thick group of far left and anti-Israel people as his mentors, advisors and supporters?

For this the Democrats dumped Hillary?

Paul, I think you meant to say “Vice” President Palin. McCain looks pretty healthy to me and Governor Palin shows she is quite capable should, G-d forbid, anything happen to the President. She has executive experience, proven leadership skills (she has the highest approval rating in the U.S.) and more importantly, the right ideas on national security and energy.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by besht2003@yahoo.com Two words: President Palin. Has any person every been less qualified for this office? If Palin why not any of hundreds of thousands of more engaged, professionally competent, intelligent, able women, less encumbered by a vest-pocket crony-ridden style of governance? For this they kicked Joe off the ticket. Puleeeze. Two words:

President Palin.

Has any person every been less qualified for this office?

If Palin why not any of hundreds of thousands of more engaged, professionally competent, intelligent, able women, less encumbered by a vest-pocket crony-ridden style of governance?

For this they kicked Joe off the ticket.

Puleeeze.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by kitchener@omdurman.org Jon Moscow wrote, “As an activist New York Jew, I can tell you that it is simply false and slanderous to call Al Sharpton a “known anti-Semite.” What part of leading a mob to a Jewish-owned store, and the mob chanting epithets like “bloodsucking Jew” and “don’t give the Jew a dime” is not anti-Semitic? What part of “white interloper” (Sharpton’s own contribution) and “see that the cracker suffers” is not racist??? What part of “Kill the Jew” (a Sharptonite mob during the Crown Heights riots) is not anti-Semitic??? The National Action Network, from what I have read, acted just like the Ku Klux Klan once acted toward Black-owned stores in white neighborhoods. Jon Moscow wrote, “As an activist New York Jew, I can tell you that it is simply false and slanderous to call Al Sharpton a “known anti-Semite.”

What part of leading a mob to a Jewish-owned store, and the mob chanting epithets like “bloodsucking Jew” and “don’t give the Jew a dime” is not anti-Semitic? What part of “white interloper” (Sharpton’s own contribution) and “see that the cracker suffers” is not racist??? What part of “Kill the Jew” (a Sharptonite mob during the Crown Heights riots) is not anti-Semitic???

The National Action Network, from what I have read, acted just like the Ku Klux Klan once acted toward Black-owned stores in white neighborhoods.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by gilleydaniel@yahoo.com Jon Moscow : Activist New Yorker ,that I believe.But that your Jewish I question - Al Sharpton not anti-Semetic ??? Jon Moscow : Activist New Yorker ,that I believe.But that your Jewish I question - Al Sharpton not anti-Semetic ???

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by pd@erols.com As a jew, I could never vote for obama, with all his shady associations with anti-semites and anti-zionists. Any jew who votes for obama, with farrakhan, wright and ayers as footnotes, must truly be out of their gourd. Bush has been Israels best friend.. lets see your stammering friend hussein barack defend Israel. As a jew, I could never vote for obama, with all his shady associations with anti-semites and anti-zionists. Any jew who votes for obama, with farrakhan, wright and ayers as footnotes, must truly be out of their gourd. Bush has been Israels best friend.. lets see your stammering friend hussein barack defend Israel.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by jmoscow@verizon.net As an activist New York Jew, I can tell you that it is simply false and slanderous to call Al Sharpton a “known anti-Semite.” As an activist New York Jew, I can tell you that it is simply false and slanderous to call Al Sharpton a “known anti-Semite.”

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by linda@scanartists.com The interview last night showed that Sarah Palin’s grasp of foreign policy is full of gaps. She’s clearly being coached by right wing Bushies and she doesn’t know enough world history to negotiate with world leaders. Her remarks about Putin are scary! We will be at war with half the world if heaven forbid this nincompoop ever becomes President. And Israel won’t be any safer. What chutzpah she has to agree to run for VP; her personal life is a train wreck, she has no foreign policy experience, she is involved in a abuse of power scandal in Alaska, but she wants to foist her ‘family values’ on the rest of us. Thanks but no thanks, Sarah! The interview last night showed that Sarah Palin’s grasp of foreign policy is full of gaps. She’s clearly being coached by right wing Bushies and she doesn’t know enough world history to negotiate with world leaders. Her remarks about Putin are scary! We will be at war with half the world if heaven forbid this nincompoop ever becomes President. And Israel won’t be any safer.
What chutzpah she has to agree to run for VP; her personal life is a train wreck, she has no foreign policy experience, she is involved in a abuse of power scandal in Alaska, but she wants to foist her ‘family values’ on the rest of us. Thanks but no thanks, Sarah!

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by kitchener@omdurman.org Re: “Sarah Palin sat in the pews of her church just two Sundays ago and voiced no objections as they hosted founder of Jews for Jesus.” In other words, Sarah Palin, a Christian, expressed no objection to an appearance by another Christian, which is what a J for J is. Barack Obama sat in the pews of his church for 20 years while his pastor questioned Israel’s legitimacy, published blood libels of both the United States and Israel, called upon God to curse America, published an opinion piece from a Hamas terrorist, and advocated divestment from Israel. Obama’s fellow racist churchgoers gave a standing ovation to “There were a whole lot of white people crying.” I say “racist” because what other kind of person would applaud such a remark? Obama praised and endorsed Al Sharpton, another prominent racist and anti-Semite whose organization, while under his leadership and supervision, screamed epithets like “bloodsucking Jew,” “white interloper” (this from Sharpton himself), “see that the cracker suffers,” “cracker lovers,” “don’t give the Jew a dime,” and “Jew b*****d” at Jewish-owned Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem. For good measure, Obama also praised Sharpton’s hate group, the National Action Network. Re: “Sarah Palin sat in the pews of her church just two Sundays ago and voiced no objections as they hosted founder of Jews for Jesus.”

In other words, Sarah Palin, a Christian, expressed no objection to an appearance by another Christian, which is what a J for J is.

Barack Obama sat in the pews of his church for 20 years while his pastor questioned Israel’s legitimacy, published blood libels of both the United States and Israel, called upon God to curse America, published an opinion piece from a Hamas terrorist, and advocated divestment from Israel.

Obama’s fellow racist churchgoers gave a standing ovation to “There were a whole lot of white people crying.” I say “racist” because what other kind of person would applaud such a remark?

Obama praised and endorsed Al Sharpton, another prominent racist and anti-Semite whose organization, while under his leadership and supervision, screamed epithets like “bloodsucking Jew,” “white interloper” (this from Sharpton himself), “see that the cracker suffers,” “cracker lovers,” “don’t give the Jew a dime,” and “Jew b*****d” at Jewish-owned Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem. For good measure, Obama also praised Sharpton’s hate group, the National Action Network.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by natanostrich@yahoo.com Barry, Palin, no. 2 on the GOP ticket, has more executive and foreign policy experience than Obama, the no. 1 on the Democrat ticket. She has Russia and Canada on her doorstep. She successfully negotiated a major natural gas pipeline with the Canadians and recently was faced with a national security crisis when Russian bombers flew near Alaska’s coast. Palin oversees the budget of the largest state in our nation. I hear they are enjoying a surplus. Soon it will be exposed how Obama wasted millions of dollars he and Bill Ayers were supposed to put to good use in the Annenberg project to help Chicago schools. Barry, Palin, no. 2 on the GOP ticket, has more executive and foreign policy experience than Obama, the no. 1 on the Democrat ticket. She has Russia and Canada on her doorstep. She successfully negotiated a major natural gas pipeline with the Canadians and recently was faced with a national security crisis when Russian bombers flew near Alaska’s coast. Palin oversees the budget of the largest state in our nation. I hear they are enjoying a surplus. Soon it will be exposed how Obama wasted millions of dollars he and Bill Ayers were supposed to put to good use in the Annenberg project to help Chicago schools.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by sbgertsman@aol.com The issure is more than Sarah Palin’s support of the “Jews for Jesus,” but must include the fact that John McCain has now outlived his Father and Grandfather and he has chosen a totally unqualified person to be his Vice-Presidential running mate. Can this country handle another incompetent in the White Houe? Eight is more than enough. The issure is more than Sarah Palin’s support of the “Jews for Jesus,” but must include the fact that John McCain has now outlived his Father and Grandfather and he has chosen a totally unqualified person to be his Vice-Presidential running mate.

Can this country handle another incompetent in the White Houe? Eight is more than enough.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by natanostrich@yahoo.com The smears against Sarah Palin are really unbelievable. Palin’s pastor invited David Brickner of Jews for Jesus to speak on a Sunday. Palin had no idea what Brickner was going to say ahead of time. After Brickner spoke, Palin said she disagreed with Brickner’s views. Sarah Palin is a staunch supporter of Israel. She has an Israeli flag in her office, signed a resolution in honor of Alaska-Israel ties (Alaska Airlines airlifted the entire Yemenite Jewish community of 40,000 in 1948-49) for Israel’s 60th anniversary and has the support of the Alaska Jewish community (6,000 Jews). These continued attacks on Palin are because of Obama’s falling support among Jewish voters, especially in Florida. The Democrats chose Obama, with ties to Israel-haters like Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi, George Soros and Jimmy Carter, as their candidate. Is it any wonder why they are losing the Jewish vote? Now, in desperation, Obama’s supporters are digging up anything they can find to label Palin as an antisemite. The lashon hara against this good woman is despicable. The smears against Sarah Palin are really unbelievable. Palin’s pastor invited David Brickner of Jews for Jesus to speak on a Sunday. Palin had no idea what Brickner was going to say ahead of time. After Brickner spoke, Palin said she disagreed with Brickner’s views.

Sarah Palin is a staunch supporter of Israel. She has an Israeli flag in her office, signed a resolution in honor of Alaska-Israel ties (Alaska Airlines airlifted the entire Yemenite Jewish community of 40,000 in 1948-49) for Israel’s 60th anniversary and has the support of the Alaska Jewish community (6,000 Jews).

These continued attacks on Palin are because of Obama’s falling support among Jewish voters, especially in Florida. The Democrats chose Obama, with ties to Israel-haters like Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi, George Soros and Jimmy Carter, as their candidate. Is it any wonder why they are losing the Jewish vote?

Now, in desperation, Obama’s supporters are digging up anything they can find to label Palin as an antisemite. The lashon hara against this good woman is despicable.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by MLHeathen@gmail.com Palin is a Dominionist (see the movie Jesus Camp) and Dominionists believe that only Christians should be allowed to govern. In her perfect world Joe Lieberman would be unemployed. Aside from that they invited a Jews for Jesus leader to speak in their church. Somehow I think my fellow Jews are not going to be flocking to Governor Palin. Palin is a Dominionist (see the movie Jesus Camp) and Dominionists believe that only Christians should be allowed to govern. In her perfect world Joe Lieberman would be unemployed.

Aside from that they invited a Jews for Jesus leader to speak in their church. Somehow I think my fellow Jews are not going to be flocking to Governor Palin.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by pinalli@yahoo.com Sarah is an extremist who will forcefully try to convert us all to evangelical christianity! We will all be speaking in tongues before we know it.Her church believes in speaking in tongues(rapture). Like Ed Koch says,she really scares me. I will vote for Obama/Biden. Sarah is an extremist who will forcefully try to convert us all to evangelical christianity!
We will all be speaking in tongues before we know it.Her church believes in speaking in tongues(rapture).
Like Ed Koch says,she really scares me.

I will vote for Obama/Biden.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by sagmann@knology.net I’m a Jew, born in France, survivor of the Holocaust. At the begining of the Six Days War, I, with tens of thousands of compatriots and coreligionists, was trying to get into the Israeli Embassy in Paris,hoping to enlist. Their answer was quite proud: “Where were you in 1948, when we REALLY needed you?” Nonetheless, they accepted only ambulance drivers. If I told you my story, it was not to bang my chest; it was just to explain that nobody, NOBODY, can give me a lesson of loyalty to Israel, nor a lesson of loyalty to my Jewry. And I wish no Jew will be blinded by McCain/Palin lies. Please, vote massively Obama/Biden. Simon. I’m a Jew, born in France, survivor of the Holocaust. At the begining of the Six Days War, I, with tens of thousands of compatriots and coreligionists, was trying to get into the Israeli Embassy in Paris,hoping to enlist. Their answer was quite proud: “Where were you in 1948, when we REALLY needed you?” Nonetheless, they accepted only ambulance drivers. If I told you my story, it was not to bang my chest; it was just to explain that nobody, NOBODY, can give me a lesson of loyalty to Israel, nor a lesson of loyalty to my Jewry. And I wish no Jew will be blinded by McCain/Palin lies. Please, vote massively Obama/Biden.
Simon.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by wew49@aol.com Jews for Jesus is a deal breaker for me.  I cannot vote for her.  Obama/Biden are good for Israel. Jews for Jesus is a deal breaker for me.  I cannot vote for her.  Obama/Biden are good for Israel.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by dredsel@gmail.com Ed Koch is fully behind Mr. Obama now.  That should tell us all we need to know about how Jews will go for Obama. Ed Koch is fully behind Mr. Obama now.  That should tell us all we need to know about how Jews will go for Obama.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by titiparis@hotmail.com I like John McCain but I don’t trust Sarah Palin. Palin’s “Jews for Jesus” is a scary and dangerous sect. I’ll vote for Obama-Biden. I like John McCain but I don’t trust Sarah Palin.
Palin’s “Jews for Jesus” is a scary and dangerous sect.
I’ll vote for Obama-Biden.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by thebarolets@comcast.net I can’t imagine South Florida supporting a Vice Presidential candidate who believes that Jews are tortured by terrorism because they have yet to convert to Christianity.  It is an extreme right wing view and we should all look at her very carefully.  Such extremism is not good for any government. I can’t imagine South Florida supporting a Vice Presidential candidate who believes that Jews are tortured by terrorism because they have yet to convert to Christianity.  It is an extreme right wing view and we should all look at her very carefully.  Such extremism is not good for any government.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by hdtnet@aol.com Sarah Palin sat in the pews of her church just two Sundays ago and voiced no objections as they hosted founder of Jews for Jesus. Sarah Palin sat in the pews of her church just two Sundays ago and voiced no objections as they hosted founder of Jews for Jesus.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by dawsonzgold@yahoo.com Obama and Biden have always been friends of Israel.  Compare this with Sarah Palin and her support for “Jews for Jesus” among other anti-Israel positions and you can see why some of us in the Jewish community are rethinking our options.  Ed Koch also made some wonderful points in his Obama endorsement yesterday. Obama and Biden have always been friends of Israel.  Compare this with Sarah Palin and her support for “Jews for Jesus” among other anti-Israel positions and you can see why some of us in the Jewish community are rethinking our options.  Ed Koch also made some wonderful points in his Obama endorsement yesterday.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by kitchener@omdurman.org Biden once threatened to cut off aid to Israel, while Obama consorts openly with known anti-Semites like Al Sharpton. For them or their shills to approach Jewish voters in this context is an insult. Biden once threatened to cut off aid to Israel, while Obama consorts openly with known anti-Semites like Al Sharpton. For them or their shills to approach Jewish voters in this context is an insult.

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