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Top Jewish Americans ponder support for Obama
reuters ^ | May 21, 2011 | Eric Johnson

Posted on 05/21/2011 4:12:41 PM PDT by PROCON

(Reuters) - Some prominent Jewish Americans are rethinking their support for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid after he effectively called on Israel to give back territory it has occupied since 1967 to Palestinians. The backlash after Obama's keynote speech on the Middle East has Democratic Party operatives scrambling to mollify the Jewish community as the president prepares to seek a second term in the White House.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: israel
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To: Logical me
My son in law, who now lives in Israel said, "What's the big deal. The US policy has not changed." You can't teach somebody who knows it all!
61 posted on 05/21/2011 5:20:30 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Wealth = Net Worth ...........Income = Net Work!)
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To: PROCON

If they have to ponder which way to go they are morally bankrupt.


62 posted on 05/21/2011 5:23:23 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Every day we now throw away things people will kill for after TEOTWAWKI)
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To: mgpilot

Karl Marx was a self-loathing Jew. It is nothing new for many Jewish people to refuse to recognize reality.....to refuse to recognize God. Many refused to admit what was happening to them in Germany.....as they were being loaded onto the trains.

Maybe it is extreme hope or a disregard for the sheer evil of mankind. Can’t figure out their lack of common sense and disregard for the facts of history and the results of certain ideologies. They of all people should know the results of socialism and Marxism. Sheer evil and ALWAYS leads to no freedom—totalitarianism and fascism.


64 posted on 05/21/2011 5:24:50 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: PROCON
I am not Jewish, so I am at a loss here...

How many times can the Jewish people get shit on, clean themselves off, and ask to have it done to them again?

I really don't get it...

66 posted on 05/21/2011 5:28:40 PM PDT by Fedupwithit ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" -Albert Camus)
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To: PROCON

Blah, blah, blah.

Their noses may be bent out of shape today, but come November of ‘12, they’ll vote for Zippy, like their parents would have, and their parents’ parents before them.


67 posted on 05/21/2011 5:28:44 PM PDT by surely_you_jest (Obama has scars going over halfway around the back of his head. What's up with that?)
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To: PROCON

It is hard for those of us who have thinking and logical minds that question what is happening in this country to understand that for some people PARTY is the religion...it is the god...it is the savior...it must be upheld.

It seems (at least to me) that Democrats are much more reluctant to turn even Independent than are Republicans. My family would choke on a chicken bone before they ever voted anything other than Democrat. Jews have voted for Democrats since Roosevelt was President and helped in the rescue of the Jews from Hitler. They aren’t about to give up their party.

They may hate Obama but they will still vote Democrat. One of you posted that there are only about 5% Jews in the country....all I have to ask is how many of that 5% have either wealth or power or both...and, if not, how many have connections with someone who has one or both? Most of them.

The money will go to the Democratic party and the Jewish voters will just turn their heads as if ignoring they have turned their backs on their ancestry, their ancestral country and this country as well. They will not recognize that they gave money to Obama...it will be giving it to the Democratic party and that is all that counts.


68 posted on 05/21/2011 5:29:36 PM PDT by imfrmdixie (A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Eisenhower)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Amen, and plus he said in “his” book...when it comes to crunch time, I will come down on the side of the Muslims..” and to Stephy, “...my Muslim faith...”

Case closed two times!


69 posted on 05/21/2011 5:30:31 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: PROCON

The majority of the non-religious Jews would vote for osama or hitler if they had a (D) after his name.


70 posted on 05/21/2011 5:31:19 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: mgpilot

We must be careful not to stigmatize all Jews because of a bunch of American libtard Jews. Jews have been victims of pogroms, murders, genocides, discrimination, etc by so-called “christians” throughout the ages. They tend to side with democrats because of their perceived long-standing civil rights records. Many republicans (as well as democrats)have been guilty of antisemitism. They are a gifted, talented people that make up a disproportionate number of diplomats, scientists, lawyers, actors, advisers,bankers, financiers, etc. Someday they will realize that there only true friends are evangelical Christians of a dispensational persuasion. As a member of the Baptist persuasion I am commanded to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem and to remember that “I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you” Shalom to my Jewish friends and please stand behind Bibi as he confronts the U.S. President.


71 posted on 05/21/2011 5:33:59 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Steve Van Doorn

End of thread. Case closed.


72 posted on 05/21/2011 5:34:54 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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To: PROCON

Will Jews will vote for us? Depends on the candidate. Palin - no. Paul - hell no. Romney - yes. Cain - yes, Daniels - yes, Huntsman - yes.

They are part of the great dem party - Blacks, Latinos, unions, and Jews. Loss of Jews is not great in percent, but significant in money. Love to have them. They are great people.


73 posted on 05/21/2011 5:38:20 PM PDT by uscabjd
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To: Clintonfatigued
After this and other actions, I would hope not. Jewish voters turned against George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1980. Why not this time?

The numbers that turned against the Dems were not that large, I think the majority still voted Dem. Much of the Jewish community votes Dem because Republicans are Christian and Conservative (both qualities much exaggerated by the Jewish community).
Dennis Prager 10/2/08
Why are so many Jews liberal?

74 posted on 05/21/2011 5:40:58 PM PDT by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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To: imfrmdixie
You would be interested in reading further on how Roosevelt and Britain “saved” the Jews...early on many were discarded as so much chattel...hard to believe.
75 posted on 05/21/2011 5:42:10 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: 2nd Amendment
”Jews have been victims of pogroms, murders, genocides, discrimination, etc by so-called “christians” throughout the ages.”

Other then the crusades I can not think of any other time that Christians did anything bad to Jews.
Republicans should have kicked Pat Buchanan out of the party by court order years ago though.

76 posted on 05/21/2011 5:47:49 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: PROCON

Eaxctly: They dont need mollifying, just watch them go to the polls and vote Obama.


77 posted on 05/21/2011 5:53:29 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And what have you sown? I like how you call out Jews. Nice.


78 posted on 05/21/2011 5:55:06 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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To: PROCON

Pondering will get you in trouble—What should we pack in the suitcase for that train ride the Nazis have for us? Wake up! Danger, run and skip that train ride!


79 posted on 05/21/2011 5:57:03 PM PDT by RicocheT
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Thanks. I didn’t know that.


80 posted on 05/21/2011 6:00:19 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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