Dennis Kucinich
Posted on 01/31/2004 5:06:37 AM PST by ovrtaxt
ELECTION 2004
Arab-Americans switch:
Bush to Kucinich
Prominent group that backed president
in 2000 says they were 'stung'
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Complaining it was betrayed, a key Arab-American group that endorsed George W. Bush in the 2000 election says it will back Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich for the Democratic nomination and stand behind that party's eventual nominee.
Dennis Kucinich |
The endorsement of Kucinich was not based on who has the best chance to win, but on "principle," said Osama Siblani, head of the Arab-American Political Action Committee.
"The argument we had yesterday was should we stand by our principles or cast a vote based on electability," he said, according to the Associated Press. "But this was a group that voted for [President] Bush in 2000 and were stung by the Bush administration."
Kucinich finished sixth in the New Hampshire primary this week, but the Arab-American group's members gave him more than two-thirds of their votes Wednesday in Dearborn, Mich. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean came in second, followed by retired Gen. Wesley Clark.
At the vote, the members "decided that they needed to make it clear that this community will vote for the candidate that best represents its interests, not necessarily the one that may be elected," Siblani said, according to the AP.
Kerry did not do well, he noted, because of his stand on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Siblani said many members of the community who voted for Bush in 2000, based partly on electability, feel betrayed "and don't want to vote for someone who calls our group terrorists," the AP reported.
Eroding support
Meanwhile, a Zogby International poll of Arab-American voters nationwide shows Bush losing substantial support among that constituency.
If elections were held today, only 28 percent of Arab-Americans would vote to re-elect the president.
Forty percent would vote for "any Democrat," according to Zogby, while the remaining 32 percent would vote either for an independent candidate, or are undecided.
Zogby notes Bush won 44.5 percent of the community's vote in the 2000 presidential election.
His job approval rating also has dropped dramatically among Arab-Americans. In October 2001, 83 percent approved of his performance, but by July 2003, the figure dropped to 43 percent.
Now, just 38 percent of Arab-Americans approve of the president’s job performance, Zogby said.
A study by Zogby International and the Arab-American Institute attributed said the main reason for the erosion of support is the administration's Middle East policy
Two-thirds of Arab-Americans surveyed said Middle East policy was "very important" in determining their vote. But only 18 percent approved of the administration's policy, while 78 percent expressed disapproval.
Zogby noted that while the Arab-American community is small – an estimated 3.5 million nationally – it is concentrated in several "battleground" states, including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.
What you say is very true, but I think it goes farther than that.
First, why "Kucinich"? Answer: he promises to eradicate American military power! In other words, a de facto surrender to the House of Islam. The others in the Democrat Party are not much better, and would turn America inward, abandoning our aggresive War On Terror and returning to the days of Clinton when it was handled as a "criminal matter".
Second, many Arabs in this country are Christian, and they are probably the % which does not support Kucinich. Much of the reason they are here in the first place is because of persecution in their home countries. They know the end game.
Third, then here are the Muslims. To most of them, their first allegiance is to Islam, period. Probably most in this Arab-American group which reject Bush adhere to that creed.
Here are some handy quotations, noting the pathology of the thought of most of the group, the Mulsim element;
"Islam has bloody borders"-Samuel P. Huntington
Islam is more than a set of beliefs. It is a social creed for radically organising society-Mk Steyn
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant"-Omar Ahmad [CAIR]
Islam was born with the idea that it should rule the world"-M.Sharon
"Wherever you have Islam you have war. It grows out of the attitude of Islamic civilization-M.Sharon
"when totems of pluralism clash with the Islamic lobby, Islam more often than not wins -Mark Steyn
"There is no 'fundamental' Islam. There is only Islam"-M.Sharon
"The world will continue to be in the House Of War until it comes under Islamic rule"-M.Sharon
"The Velvet Curtain of culture has replaced the Iron Curtain of Ideology"-Samuel P. Huntington
"The Koran should be the highest authority in America, Islam the only religion"-Omar Ahmad [CAIR]
"Peace in Islam exists only in an Islamic world, and only between Moslem and Moslem--M.Sharon
The problem is not "Bush". The problem is his policies and what they represent - resistance to Muslim hegemony and victory for individual human freedom and rights in the Western sense, and this world-wide. This goes counter to the very heart of Islamic teaching.
It's little wonder they go for the likes of nuts like Kookinich!
Baloney. Same BS; different Osama.
This story smells.Yeah, it does, but that's because the organization involved does.
Many people criticise "fundamental" Christianity and one reason is some adherents of it tends to be legalistic - no dancing, no movies, no pants on women, etc. And in a minor sense, that is true, but there is still wide latitude for individual freedoms even in the most legalistic of fundamentalist Christian sects.
Well, these critics of fundamentalist Christianity (most of whom think Islam is swell, and we should "tolerate" it - unlike fundamentalist Christianity) ain't seen nuthin' yet until they see how Islam operates. "Everything" in Islam is choreographed and legalistic, from the very specific dozens of movements required during daily prayers to the proper way to blow your nose or wipe your @$$.
In Islam, there is no freedom, only control, only Islam. It is as alien to Western culture, American thought and Biblical precepts as you can get.
An interesting difference between Hitler and bin Laden is that after Hitler, the name Adolf/Adolph all but disappeared. Anyone stuck with that name once Hitler died usually changed it to Dolf or used his middle name. Since 9/11, people in some places have been proud of bin Laden's name or decided deliberately to name their children Osama.
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