Posted on 09/17/2008 4:02:34 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
My Father was Haganah and because his disgust with American Jews , I don’t for one nano-second believe this story.
Apparently only about 30% of Jews think voting for an antisemitic crypto-muslim is a smart thing to do.
...and blanket statements are a sign of stupidity.
In many ways, so is McCain.
A lot of us Jews are not “liberal”, at least not any more.
Barack is a threat to America, to Israel, and to world freedom.
We recognize this though some fellow braindead brethren don’t.
From four generations of Jews serving America (WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq)
bttt
I am not surprised by this poll; several college acquaintances who were Jewish belonged to a group called YPSL-Young People's
Socialist League. They supported Scoop Jackson because of his support of Jews in the Soviet Union.
I suspect these now middle aged men and women although very liberal on social issues would be quite worried about an Obama presidency. His friends Ayers and Dorhn and their ilk have had close ties to the PLO and pro Palestine groups for at least thirty years.
Let’s remember that it was George Stephanopoulous who corrected Obama on his “misstatement”, not Obama himself. Added to Reverend Wright’s hate filled church, Obama’s upbringing, and more recent pictures and stories about him reciting the call to prayer flawlessly, it is difficult to believe that Obama is being entirely forthright about what his religious beliefs are. Only Obama knows for sure what he believes, but it is difficult to believe what he says considering all this. Any thoughtful and even halfway observant person of the Christian or Jewish faith has to realize this.
The sample size here is just too small to put too much importance behind this poll.
One of my father’s friends at work (in New York) is Jewish and is about as liberal as it gets. He and his wife are not supporting Obama; they’re basically scared of him from what I’m told. I doubt they’re alone in thinking that.
I can pass along my observations from suburban Philadelphia. We’re in Montgomery County, in a township which is probably ~40% Jewish. I’m not seeing as many Obama yard signs as I’ve seen Gore, Kerry or Hillary signs in the past. McCain signs are popping up in encouraging numbers. I take nothing for granted, but I’m encouraged. Obama’s campaign headquarters is about 1/2 mile away on a main street, while McCain’s is about a 15 minute drive from here, in a new location, tucked away on an odd street. Somehow, people are managing to get their hands on McCain signs despite inconvenience. I’m happy to see it.
Oy vey! Barama is a putz! he is so mashugana!’
and a closet faygala, too! ;-)
But oy, so many have been drinking the manischevitz koolaide.
I’ve been suspicious of the media and their polls every since the 1980 presidential race.
The night before the election, the media claimed the race between Carter and Reagan was “too close to call.”
As we all know, the next day the Reagan tidal wave swept across America like Sherman through Georgia.
I lived in California then, and the news media proclaimed Reagan the winner during the afternoon Pacific time, before I even got a chance to go to the polls. When I showed up, I had a big smile on my face.
Here in very liberal Rockland County, NY, there is a very large concentration of Jewish people, ranging from the Chassidim to the Reform. Being very active in the Jewish community, I hear a lot from all corners of the Jewish spectrum. In the past, the general rule was the more Orthodox a person is, the more politically to the right (s)he is. The “progressive” movements were almost universally (over 80%) liberal Dems.
This year, I’m not hearing the loud cacophony of left-wing opinions from the liberal Jews. Of course there are those that are ideologically driven and will vote Dem, but MANY -—dare I say “most” -— of the opinions are that they will vote McCain, even if they have to do so unwillingly. For many, Jeremiah Wright was the tipping point, for others it is the realization that all Israel’s enemies want Obama to win. There are also the disaffected Hillary voters among the Jewish community, and they are MANY, as you might expect.
For one who for much too long has been ashamed of his fellow Jews for their irrational clinging to a liberalism that stands AGAINST most of what Judaism stands FOR, even a hint of a new attitude is surely most welcome!!!!
Wow. I can’t say I’m shocked but that is larger than I suspected. Thanks.
It’s going to get worse for Obama if he doessn’t show up at the AhmaNutJob protest. My understanding is that Obama is demanding some preconditions:
-—That Sarah not be there,
-—and that Obama be allowed to bring his teleprompter.
Thank you, Jews!
What do you think pushes so many Jews toward a liberal viewpoint? I’ve often wondered that...
Bad experiences with the antisemitism of the Czar and his Cossacks drove many Jews into exile and into the propaganda of the Communists/Marxists. Some stayed, some left, some fought them.
Unfortunately, so of my brethren as just plain dumb asses and will believe any crap that the left provides them, and they stay with it like lemming going over a cliff.
Some of us broke away from the doomed herd and more are jumping out of the liberal/left “death march”.
Everything else follows from that.
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