The Israeli parliament approved a series of austerity measures presented by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured here in May 2012, to help rein in the country's growing deficit. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
Posted on 08/21/2012 1:56:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
President Barack Obama's reelection campaign unveiled "Rabbis for Obama"—a group of more than 600 rabbis from across the country—at a time when Republicans are hoping to erode the Democrat's wide lead among Jewish voters.
"Their ringing endorsement of President Obama speaks volumes about the president's deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel and his dedication to a policy agenda that represents the values of the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community," Ira Forman, the campaign's Jewish Outreach Director, said in a statement.
The announcement came with a state-by-state list of the rabbis backing Obama, who leads Romney 68 percent to 25 percent among Jewish voters according to a recent Gallup poll.
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The Israeli parliament approved a series of austerity measures presented by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured here in May 2012, to help rein in the country's growing deficit. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
It says more about the pathetic state of Judaism in America. Although, the list of Rabbis does show that Obama knows he is in trouble with Jews and is trying to use Rabbinic influence to pull some of those votes back. Anyone want to guess what percentage of the Rabbis are Reform?
Schmucks.
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- devolve’s poll has it 100% to 0% that I will not buy anything from any enthic group below:
98%
78%
67%
Isn’t that.....
“depressing”?
Well - I’m doing just fine and dandy enyhoo
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I pray for the American Jews. Why in the Lords name would they follow a socialist? It is beyond comprehension, or maybe not.
With people like Wasserman Schultz and all the lies she spews no wonder they follow obama. Blind leading the blind.
So sad. :(
Like voting for Hitler. Worse of Iran follows through.
"October 28, 2008 Exclusive: Rabbis for Obama Exposed as front group for radical Hamas appeasement supporters" .
The website rabbisforobama.org link no longer reflects the identities of these rabbis (mine was on that decrepit list), even through Internet archive. The link is good, but the list of rabbis is no longer posted. Dhimmi-Cowards, the lot of them, buying their own train tickets to the ovens.
The only thing that turns me against any person or group is if they support the Obamadork.
Supporting that idiot in these times is very very close to treason.
An out of control overreaching socialist government nearly exterminated the Jews from the face of the earth and they still support socialism/communism/Marxism even to the point of lying to us and trying to say that Odumbo supports Israel.
From Marx to Saul Alinsky to a bunch of Rabbis, the numbers tells us Jews hate this country and the founders.
I used to back off to the notion of Reformed Jews (or whatever they call themselves) but given the percentage who voted for this Jew hating, muslim loving POS was well over 70% and now still in the high 60%. Sorry but something is seriously wrong.
How can such an intelligent people love a man who would give muslims a free hand in their destruction?
Maybe there is such a thing as a parallel universe but this type of thinking is so absurd it must come from a perpendicular universe.
I know there is no hope for voting intelligence from the overtly racist black community but I am very disappointed in what I thought were our Jewish friends.
There must be some huge Jews and their Rabbis for Hamas movement I don’t know about going on in this country.
I guess they must be the survivors of “Rabbis for Hitler” - I never knew Jews had such a death wish!
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98% shun
78% shun
67% shun
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I thought it said “Rabies for Obama” like somebody had infected him.
“It says more about the pathetic state of Judaism in America. Although, the list of Rabbis does show that Obama knows he is in trouble with Jews and is trying to use Rabbinic influence to pull some of those votes back. Anyone want to guess what percentage of the Rabbis are Reform?”
No kidding! These people would sell gas chambers to the Germans if they could make a buck off of it. Jews in this country sure have a short memory, and that’s very sad. Some of them even go so far as to refer to Israel as “that shitty little country in the ME that’s causing all the trouble.”
>> the rabbis backing Obama, who leads Romney 68 percent to 25 percent among Jewish voters
Convince me the numbers do not reflect the issue of abortion.
Yep, rabbis and rabble.
If they help get their boy in for another term, may all of their wealth be redistributed. May they be taxed into poverty. Maybe then they’ll finally get it.
Why create this group “Rabis for BO” if he has them at 68%. Sounds unnecessary to me.
Those rabbis are signing the death sentence for Israel.
Ira Forman must be using his brains as pillow stuffing to sit on. Holy Schmuck, obama is ready to sell Isreal to the muslims, and 600 rabbis are for it???
As a Jew, I completely disavow any connection to these morons, these schmucks, these self-hating Jews. To be for a man who is against Israel with every fiber of his being says to me that these “rabbis” (and a bunch are women, who simply cannot be rabbis) are no such thing (”rabbi” means “teacher”). They teach nothing, except maybe by negative example.
Their ideological forebearers were in the cattle cars, mine in the forest killing Nazis. We might possibly share some DNA, but that’s it. A pox on them.
Carter had a mad Rabbit.
Obama has 600 mad Rabbis.
I looked at the website. Usual suspects in usual places (NY, Mass, Illinois, California). I’m in Florida and the numbers this time around are paltry. Just a handful. Notably, my Reform Judaism rabbi is not on the list this time around. Look, Jews could be 100% pro-Romney and it wouldn’t affect NY, Mass, Illinois, California. The real “Jewish” battleground states are Florida and Ohio (esp Florida). Methinks Bammy and Axelhitler sprinkled some perfume on a steaming pile of manure. They’re in real trouble.
Gallup sucks; and Reagan, who anyone would admit was more conservative than is Romney, got 39% vs Carter. It’s very unlikely that today’s Jewish voters are less liberal, so Romney probably has a shot at Reagan’s numbers in this category. It’s not too late to bitch about the Jews, though. :’) Thanks NormsRevenge.
Because if the democrats are getting down to that number, then they are heading towards a record high percentage for Jews voting republican.
Thirty two percent is still a long way from the record 45% in 1916, but it is still in historically bad numbers, territory.
Spoken like the chief poobah of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), which Foreman is, or once was.
These "Rabbis for Obama" are just a bunch of 'Rat political hacks, who either have no awareness of the Obama Administration's anti-Israel, pro-Islamist policies and maneuvers, or choose to ignore them.
And speaking of "overwhelming majority," you can bet your last dollar that the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Israelis will be hoping and praying for an Obama defeat at the polls in November and that an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans abroad in Israel will vote for Mitt Romney for president!!!
It is true that they gave Reagan, 39% in 1980 against Carter, but by 1984, that had dropped to 31%, as the rest of the nation gave Reagan a landslide.
Obama could drop below 70%.
He lost 5 points aong Jews. It is a start.
FYI, I looked up the list of rabbis. Most are in California. The ones in my state are not only reform, but absolutely kooky reform.
Example: I went to a Passover Seder at a synagogue one year. There were two cups on the table. I asked why there wasn’t just one for Elijah, and was told the other cup was for Miriam.
Why two cups? For the LGBT Jews.
Thousands of years of tradition changed for what reason? A political one that is expressly forbidden in the Torah?
MOST if not all of these rabbis are kooky Reform. Don’t see any conservative or orthodox on that list in the states I am familiar with.
Aong = among.
My rabbi not on the list. HA!
Well CRAP!!! I needed to clean my glasses. I thought the headline was Rabies for Obama and I got pretty excited.
Great minds think alike. I posted by rabies comment and then saw yours. Darn.
I used to back off to the notion of Reformed Jews (or whatever they call themselves) but given the percentage who voted for this Jew hating, muslim loving POS was well over 70% and now still in the high 60%. Sorry but something is seriously wrong.
What urban districts are being sampled? Are they calling on the Sabbath or a holiday.
PS. New York City Jews elected a state senator this year who positions on nationalism put him in the Tancredo school. But this was a district made up of Orthodox Jews and Jews who came after the fall of the USSR. The State Senate District (27) was also part of the 9th Congressional District, which elected a Republican last year; a pro-life, anti-gay marriage, reduce legal immigration Republican.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
“Please your enemy so he’ll be nice to you” is a difficult concept to understand. Wait, isn’t it similar to the Stockholm Syndrome?
The Kapo Jews supporting Barry would be wise to reread their history books especially the part about the Holocaust. Apparently, they can’t recognize evil when it’s in front of them.
These are Rabbis like I’m the Pope. No offense to the Pope, I just mean that they are not Rabbis in the sense of Jewish teachers or spiritual leaders. What they are are high priests of the church of liberalism.
I'm going to assume you typed that in the heat of emotionalism. If you did not you are either incredibly stupid or else don't belong on Free Republic.
You didn't say "some Jews" hate this country. You said "JEWS" hate this country and its founders.
Do you understand that only Orthodox rabbis are actually rabbis and that the so-called "rabbis" of Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist "Judaism" are not? Did you notice how many names of these "rabbis" was women? There is no such thing as a woman rabbi.
Jews are traditionally afraid of unbridled nationalist and chrstian enthusiasm because they have learned the hard way. Unfortunately, since the "enlightenment" many Jewish "leaders" have assumed the only way to protect Jewish lives is to have a universal secular standard that will sit in judgment on all religions and all "gxds." There is indeed one Jewish component to this philosophy: Jews were given the mission of imposing on the world a universal, objective moral standard. However, this standard is Theocratic, not secular.
How many "chrstian nationalists" even worship a universal, objective G-d at all? How many chrstians worship a localized idol: an American "gxd," an English "gxd," a Spanish "gxd," etc. It is indeed a Jewish mission to destroy all these false national idols. And I will go on record as stating my personal opinion that even Jewish liberalism serves G-d in this way--by destroying local idols, even though it is being destructively and in a non-Kosher way. But all things are governed by Divine Providence.
Finally, the Jewish People are a Theocratic nation in exile, not a religious organization. Until some three hundred years ago they were a self-governing Theocratic community governed by Torah law even in the Exile. Genuine Orthodox rabbis are the ONLY authentic Jewish leaders in the world. All the politicians, philanthropists, and bureaucrats are phonies.
I looked up 1/2 dozen of the NY men - JTS/ “conservative”.
Recognized 3-4 of the women - mostly reform, some JTS.
These are all the usual marxist suspects.
DON’T BUY THE POLLS. I guarantee you the support number is going to be lower among Jews, GUARANTEE.
From your mouth to God's ear!
Look how the current administration is handling the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Now the Egyptian are inserting tanks, attack helicopters and heavy equipment into the Sinai desert IN VIOLATION of the Camp David accords. Ignore these precedents and we are in August 1939...
This one needed a barf alert before the headline. “Overwhelming majority”? Sure. The overwhelming majority of Jews in America have a death wish.
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