ADL Condemns "Ugly, Divisive" Pennsylvania GOP Email to Jewish Voters Comparing Obama to Third Reich

ABC ^ | 10-28-08

[SJackson]

RADNOR, PA. -- More than 75,000 Jews throughout the Keystone state got an email Thursday from the “Republican Federal Committee of PA – Victory 2008” that compares a victory by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to Nazi victories before the Holocaust.

“Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision” the email said, making a number of false or misleading assertions about Obama and adding that “Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake. Let's not make a similar one this year!"

Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor, condemned the email.

“Ugly, divisive personal attacks against a candidate for any political office should never be acceptable, and using Holocaust analogies is completely beyond the pale," Foxman said. "Regardless of which candidate one supports, it is shocking and profoundly distressing that anyone would see fit to make such an odious, false and repugnant analogy. Not only does it further debase the level of our political discourse, but it also diminishes and trivializes the virulent anti-Semitism and Nazi aggression that led to the slaughter of six million Jews and millions of others.”

"The Republican Party of Pennsylvania did not authorize that e-mail," Michael Barley, communications director for the state party, asserted to The Associated Press.

But Political consultant Bryan Rudnick – hired by the PA GOP as a consultant to do outreach to Jewish voters – told the AP, however, that, "I had authorization from party officials" to send the e-mail.

Who authorized it?

[SJackson]

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Shame on the GOP for letting this one slide by.

[Salamander]

If the jackboot fits....

[rmlew]

Abe Foxman would fellate Rashid Khalidi to facilitate Democrat control of the Federal government.
He is a court Jew for the left.

[psw0585]

Heaven help us from those who would help us.

It's not even noon and I already need a drink.

[Stepan12]

They're wimps at the ADL.

B. Hussein Obama is clearly dangerous to Israel and American Jews. His supporters are reminiscent of something at a Hitler rally with the swooning women and mass hysteria. It is unfair however to compare B. Hussein Obama to Adolph Hitler because Hitler never needed a teleprompter. Hitler could read a speech basically from memory with only a few pieces of words written on a piece of paper (a talent he shared with Nikolai Lenin).p>

"F--- Obama" Phonetic Hebrew Bumper Sticker Reflects Israeli Sentiment

[Blennos]

Ugly and divisive does not mean that the charge is not completely accurate. As a student of history, I can state that the parallels between BHO and the beginnings of the 3rd Reich are certainly there to be seen. Let’s not forget that Hitler was a charismatic and utterly compelling socialist.

[Robert DeLong]

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Enjoy the repeat there Abraham H. Foxman.

[realcleanguy]

Too late. Obama is a fascist

[TNCMAXQ]

Their supporters react with violence and intimidation. There are certainly some similarities to extremist regimes of the past.

[Genoa]

Ugly but accurate.

[SJSAMPLE]

American Jews will be the death of Israel.

There.
I said it.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Republican Federal Committee of PA

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Never heard of them, I can not find a list from them either.

[IndianPrincessOK]

“American Jews will be the death of Israel.

There.
I said it.”

They could be but let’s hope they come to their senses before it’s too late!

[SJackson]

Abe Foxman would fellate Rashid Khalidi to facilitate Democrat control of the Federal government. He is a court Jew for the left.

That's no reason to provide him with ammunition.

[Godwin1]

If any crowd in the USA knows about “ugly” and “divisive”, it is the ADL, a cabal of anti-Christian bigots masquerading as a civil rights organization.

[null and void]

If the jackboot fit....

Jew must acquit!

sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry

[SJackson]

Ugly and divisive does not mean that the charge is not completely accurate. As a student of history, I can state that the parallels between BHO and the beginnings of the 3rd Reich are certainly there to be seen. Let’s not forget that Hitler was a charismatic and utterly compelling socialist.

Comparisons could be drawn to any charismatic, populist politician, though Hitler could never get much over a third of the vote.

However the contentious phrase compares a vote for Obama to the advocacy of genocide, and warning Jews not to make that "mistake". There's no basis for that.

A shame they included that sentence, most of the EMail is on target.

[SJackson]

Never heard of them, I can not find a list from them either.

The GOP acknowledges it's theirs and signed by their officials, who have apologized. The one line must have slipped by everyone.

[Salamander]

ROFLMAO!