These antiwar Jewish Democrats attacked Sen. Joe Lieberman and praised Barack Obama for his imagined support of Israel.
These Jewish democrats- Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) held a press conference to persuade Jewish voters that Barack Obama really is a friend of Israel.
Obama has a long list of anti-Semitic friends, associates and even advisors who are still working with his campaign.
Here are a few of the anti-Semitic (and terrorist) friends of Obama:
(Top left clockwise) Barack and Michelle Obama and radical Leftist anti-Israel Professor Edward Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Bill Baar's West Side), Former PLO operative and close friend of the Obama's Rashid Khalidi, Barack Obama and his racist minister Jeremiah Wright, and close terrorist friend William Ayers.
These partisan democrats tried to persuade their audience that Obama and not Senator John McCain would offer the best path on dealing with Iran and securing the safety of Israel. That's scary.
Yid with Lid and The Hill reported:
Jewish Democrats are anxious that Sen. Joe Liebermans support for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) will hurt their own nominees chances with voters of their faith.
Their increasing frustration came to a head Wednesday when liberal activists and bloggers dropped off a petition calling for Democratic leaders to remove Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut who caucuses with the Democrats, as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the next Congress. The petition contained 43,000 signatures.
But their frustration also has been building for months. And many of them have silently gritted their teeth while one of the most well-known Jewish members of Congress, who served as their vice presidential candidate in 2000, has sought to drive Jews even further from presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).
Joe Lieberman, a friend of mine, just sees life differently, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said recently. And so its too bad. We miss him.
Lautenberg has been one of the most vocal Jewish lawmakers working to refute Liebermans claims that McCain, not Obama, offers the best path on dealing with Iran and securing the safety of Israel.
Before the Fourth of July recess, Lautenberg and other Jewish lawmakers joined the National Jewish Democratic Council to drudge up a three-year-old vote on an amendment to a defense authorization bill to charge that McCains rhetoric does not match his voting record on tough economic sanctions for Iran.
The press conference, also attended by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), was designed to cast doubt about McCain's credentials on Israel while trumpeting Obamas.
Lautenberg, who said he was saddened by Liebermans notable absence at the press conference, acknowledged that his fellow members of the faith have their work cut out for them in this area.
I believe there are some misunderstandings, yes, and Ive seen it directly in conversations Ive had with people, Lautenberg said. And people dont know Obama, and there are suspicions being supported by whats being thrown out by the Republicans.
Lieberman stunned Democrats when, almost immediately following Obamas securing of the nomination, he participated in a conference call organized by the McCain campaign where he criticized Obama for appearing to blame American foreign policy for much of the current tension between Iran and Israel.
Im certainly disappointed that he [Lieberman] would be such an active part of the campaign, Schakowsky said this week. I feel disappointed as a Jew, but primarily as a Democrat, and around a whole myriad of issues.
But Schakowsky argues that Liebermans support of McCain will have little lasting impact on Jewish Americans.
Sorry, Democrats... Obama got in trouble with Jewish voters all by himself.
He didn't need any help from Republicans.
Ever since former president Clinton invited Arafat into the White House how on earth is it possible that Americans in the Jewish community do not see that anti-semitism and the destruction of Israel is a left-wing philosophy?
ReplyDeleteFurther, I do not understand why Senator Lieberman has not joined the Republican Party; does he really think he can affect those anti-semites and destroyers of Israelites by being one of them?
Remember: Jews do not let other Jews vote for Obama because that vote is a vote for the destruction of Israel.
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I wrote here before that if this election were to (finally!) force the much needed break between American Jews and a Democratic Party chock full of totalitarian loving idealogues who will choose Arafatism over the elected Isreali gorvernment every time, then it would represent an American political earthquake.
ReplyDelete75% of American Jews voted for Kerry, and I cannot fathom anything close to that for Obama. But then again, this race is not much about rationality.
Edward Said was never an anti-Semite. He was, in fact, one of the only Palestinian activists to always recognize Israel and its right to exist. He was one of the first to propose a 2 state solution, back in the 1970s. While he fervently opposed the occupation of Palestinian lands and argued for the right of return, he was always pro-Palestinian, and never anti-Israel, or anti-Jew.
ReplyDelete"Right to return" = destruction of the Jewish state by way of demographics since 70% of Jordan's population alone identifies as "Palestinian."
ReplyDelete"Palestinian lands" = no such thing.
Said never once condemned terrorism directed at Israelis either.
Maybe someday the Republicans will learn that it takes more to be a friend of the Jewish people than just giving money to the Israeli Army.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican Party is full of anti-Semites: people like John Holocaust Hagee, who openly want America to be a "Christian Nation" with nothing separating church and state, less pluralism and tolerance for religious minorities. John Holocaust Hagee has said that European Jews deserved the Holocaust, as punishment for their crime of trying to live outside Israel; do not think for one minute that American Jews have failed to notice that his statement also implicitly justifies a future genocide against American Jews for their same "crime" as well. Many Republican evangelical leaders have made it very plain that Judaism is not a valid, sustainable religion or way of life--rather, Jews are to be kept around until Holocaust 2, aka the Rapture, which they never ever shut up about, during which time every Jew must either convert or die.
Like I said: in the face of behavior like THAT from leading Republicans right here in America, who the hell cares who gives money to the already well-stocked Israeli Army? American Jews need to feel safe in America, and as long as Jew-haters / Holocaust-lovers like Hagee, Falwell, Robertson, etc. control the Republican Party, most American Jews will never trust it or join it.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that your precious Joe Lieberman is a FRIEND of Holocaust Hagee, which further explains why those wise-thinking Democratic Jewish Americans were bashing Lieberman.
ReplyDelete"The Republican Party is full of anti-Semites: people like John Holocaust Hagee, who openly want America to be a "Christian Nation" with nothing separating church and state, less pluralism and tolerance for religious minorities"
ReplyDeleteIs this a ridiculous statement or what?
Hagee has always been a friend and defender of Israel, one the the few Christian leaders who actively supports Israel, just ask the Rabbis who know him well.
Perhap the commenter was mistaking Pastor Hagee with 'Christian' Rev Wright who is open about his anti-semitism.
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I am not sure which Republicans you are referring to, some might be anti-semitic but hard to know if you aren't specific. I am often surprised how anti-semitic the democrat party is over all, considering so many Jews I know are Dems. And I totally disagree that Christians (as am I) want the whole country to be as Christian - yet I do agree that it would be healing to return to Judeo Christian values, rather than porn in elementary schools, mutilating children, killing people with fentanyl. (Btw- the reference to separation of church and state was to keep the state out of the church not the church out of the state) I love that our country is so diverse of cultures!
DeleteMost Christians I know support Israel & the Jewish people, why not, Jesus is Jewish!
"Edward Said was never an anti-Semite." -- lying anonymoid idiot
ReplyDeleteWhat planet are you from? It can't be Earth, unless you are one of the insane of whom there are so many lately.
Said was the Racist, anti-Semitic hate-filled piece of garbage who invented the fictitious "palestinian" identity to rally the world against "the Jooooos" to destroy Israel and us.
Here's a picture of Said "communicating" with the "Jooos" he "respects" so much. Yeah, Right!
You, like Said, are a lying POS!
And the truth about Said is important because he and his Ilk are among those that Barak Insane Opossum calls his "friends"
American Jews need to feel safe in America, and as long as Jew-haters / Holocaust-lovers like Hagee, Falwell, Robertson, etc. control the Republican Party, most American Jews will never trust it or join it.
ReplyDeleteAs Don Imus' sportsmeister Warner Wolf would say ...
... you couldn't be more hopelessly wrong!
It is the evangelical Christians ... including those men above ... who have been some of the greatest friends of the State of Israel in my lifetime.
Evangelicals ... except perhaps for a few on the fringes who could be described as RINOs -- Righteous In Name Only ... still have a high respect for Jews as God's chosen people. In fact, we believe that he still has that special relationship with the Jewish people ... and we don't want to tick Him off by treating them poorly.
Holocaust lovers? Christians? Not sure what Christian's you know but you need to meet more. 'Falwell', 'Robertson', are they still alive even?
DeleteStudy your history man! In the 1930's and even after WW2 began do you know how many Christians risked their lives to help the Jews - hiding, escaping, money & food - some of them also died in the concentration camps - like Corrie Ten Boom's sister (she has a wonderful, sad but redemptive story
about her time in the concentration camps....Christian, not a Jew.
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