Posted on 05/04/2007 11:26:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For a candidate intent on courting the Jewish vote, some of the headlines for Sen. Barack Obama in recent weeks have been less than heartening. "Obama comment draws fire from Jews," the Des Moines Register declared after the senator's unscripted remark at an Iowa campaign stop in March that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" from stalled peace efforts with the Israelis. Even in that short span, his remarks have undergone a subtle evolution. In March, he spoke of relaxing restrictions on aid to the Palestinians and said "both the Israeli and Palestinian people have suffered from the failure to achieve" the "goal" of "two states living side by side in peace and security." While asserting that the United States should isolate Hamas and other Palestinian Islamic militants, he said that "Israel will also have some heavy stones to carry" in any peace process. By last week, however, the references to Palestinian suffering and Israeli heavy-lifting were gone, replaced by a less nuanced pro-Israel stance nearly indistinguishable from that of his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. "When I am president, the United States will stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel in search of this peace and in defense against those who seek its destruction," Obama told an audience at the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), where his staff also handed out a 29-page "American-Israeli Relationship Issue Packet."
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Four page article.
He’s a democrat so the majority of US jews will vote for him no matter what. Go figure.....
Not in the primaries, though. But you’re right if BHO gets the nomination by some miracle, he’ll still get the Jewish vote, even Jimmuh Carter did.
Remember, a lot of US Jews hate Israel, and are nominally Jewish. (Non-practicing East Coast Liberal Jews). Some of them even participate in the Rachel Corrie Vigils that are held every year.
And this from the Christian Science Monitor. A paper that has a long antipathy to the Jewish state.
It’s simple: Tell the Jews that anyone who doesn’t vote for Obama is a big, fat, racist. They fall for that every time.
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