Posted on 11/05/2008 12:22:51 PM PST by I still care
But there are three kinds of jews as far as I can see.
The jew that identifies with and takes his Jewish Identity seriously. He believes in God and follows what he feels are His laws. These are usually conservative.
The secular jew that was raised jewish, identifies with Judaism, but actually doesn't really believe in God. They are sort of sad, really. They talk about the jews being special but they don't believe in the One that made them so. What you get are people who involve themselves in tradition that for them is really empty. As a result, they are the most liberal of the liberal - intelligentsia that cuts itself adrift from mainstream values.
Some may argue with this, but there is a brand of Christianity that identifies with Jews. They usually call themselves “Messianic” Jews and often follow all the Jewish festivals. They believe the old testament, just that Jesus is the Messiah unrecognized by traditional Judaism. Jews don't consider them Jewish of course, but they often do.
The only Jews who really stand by the free world live in Israel. And they are firm allies of the GOP
and what about Orthodox Jews?—the fastest growing segment of the Jewish population (average household of 5-8 kids). I bet they voted over 80% for McCain.
Well, you are completely out of order. Jews become Republicans after being mugged by reality then trying to get Democrats to accept reality, then finally lacking any other option.. they join the Republicans and find a home.
Its a hard process but the last step is Republican identification and the first step is an AH HAH moment where you recognize that this just isn't working as advertised. All of the promises of Social Justice and working for Respect for Humanity and creating a peaceful world are the last thing on the Democrat's minds. Its the coolaide they keep selling only to never deliver.
Well Obama just promised the biggest coolaid delivery ever, and alot of folks who were edging on their mugging pulled back because their friends said this guy is the "Real Deal."
Well, Obama is already spinning to lower expectations for his faithful. Yep, the Rapture he predicted for tomorrow has been postponed for a while while he cleans up the "Republican" housing mess, and oh by the way you need to send another check.
I've forgotten ~ many people take umbridge at the idea they are ineducable ~ they got the way they are through hard work ya' know.
I hope they don't point to Rahm and say "see, he's one of us" ~
Obviously I am against that sort of thing (and have a voluminous track record on the internet here and elsewhere fighting antisemitism). However, you actually asked me "Are you planning to help?"
Don't you think that's kind of over the top, or were you being sarcastic. The whole world is watching us ~ once you come up with some answer to my question we can then move on more rationally in our discussion.
I see in the secular Jewish culture, and that of many of my “limosine liberal” acquaintances, a belief that intelligence and education in and of itself is the primary qualifier for high office.
They are not issues-oriented. They just want the person who speaks the best and went to the best college.
That’s why the main criticism of Bush was that he was “dumb” (never mind Bush’s ivy league education—he didn’t speak well and didn’t act intellectual)
Voting on talent (speechifying, IQ points, etc) is an easy shortcut to avoid real analysis of whether you actually AGREE with what is being said.
It also gives you a president that you may disagree with, but you would be comfortable at a cocktail party with.
Of all places, the guy substituting for the BrickHead "Savage" said it best. Folks just didn't want to know. They wanted him to be as promised. This is how flim-flam artists work. Promise something to good to let go and draw the rubes in.
Man still doesn't have any concrete proposals.
CNN turned on the "reverb" sound effect for a Q&A section where Obama was "reverbing" and his questioner wasn't.
Simply amazing. But you could tell this was being directed by someone since it wasn't perfectly on cue (thankfully proving that BO wasn't a G'ould).
Man still doesn't have any concrete proposals.
Yep. When it comes down to it.. Obama is less likely to cause ripples than you might think. They had their national service thing up on the web and through today.. it was changed from compulsory to voluntary. They still have to face the fact that most people think "Re-education Camps" when the government attempts to grab every kid from 18 to 25 and keep them for "training" for only 3 months.
My daughter was saying they are going to have a their hands full trying to force kids to do this if they tried.
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