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The Fight for the Jewish Vote

Obama was trailing, but Palin may hurt McCain.

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  • Posted By: news8111 @ 11/06/2008 8:22:39 PM

    How many Jewish voters are there in America?

    Here's a Jewish family that's "filthy" rich but is scared Obama will take away their money.

    GOD ordained that we should give in charity and help our downtrodden brothers and sisters.

    As the saying goes only "good deeds" accompany a man in his grave. His wealth and wife/children return home after he's buried.

  • Posted By: Wide-Awake American @ 11/06/2008 9:20:24 AM

    Funny that Jewish people would find Sarah Palin offensive. Sarah Palin was the only candidate who understands Jewish history and knows the importance as an individual and a nation to support Israel. The other big four candidates have forgotten the Jewish/Christian principles our country was founded on. Obama never denied the statements and quotes from his earlier comments and speeches downing the constitution of these great United States of America.

    Obama never denied Jessie Jackson, Jr. statements on October 21st of the problems in the mid-East are because the United States has been an ally of Israel. Jackson concluded by saying that will change when Obama becomes President Obama.

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 8:02:53 PM

    Alaska Personal Board report out today finds no violation by Governor Palin.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live_asx.html?stream=stream3

  • Posted By: willwelearn? @ 11/03/2008 4:42:48 PM

    This is just the beginning of a New World Order, millions and millions of jobs and industries will fade, the only jobs left, Serving the CEO's, we just bailed out, Rich get richer, poor get poorer, starve and die, just as they planned, plant your garden! Palin and McCain are Clowns and keep making a fool of themselves,

  • Posted By: IamYourWorstNightmare! @ 11/03/2008 11:46:32 AM

    Leave it Newsweek to say that Pailn will make Jews vote for Barack "Khalid al-Mansour is my buddy" Obama! Or is his friendship with the PLO's mouthpiece part of that "malicious internet smear campaign" you conveniently fail to provide ANY source for?!

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 11:44:25 AM

    Now that we know Obama has PLO buddies, no thanks to the LA Times, looks like maybe Jesse Jackson knows a good bit more about Obama's politics than the national media does, or JewsForObama for that matter.

    "Press Releases

    AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jacksons Comment on American Jews
    October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades."

    "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. "This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
    Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."

    http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743

    Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown" ?

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 10:58:43 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
    unquote

    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/02/2008 10:24:03 PM

    The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I will not vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/02/2008 7:19:00 PM



    Propaganda anyone?

    Some of us built businesses, paid employees, and paid taxes at the highest rate under the Reagan tax structure for well over a decade, and didn't mind or consider those who paid less ignorant, naïve or paying too little.

    Naive is to be afraid of the expiration of the Bush tax give away to the rich, and think that is "raising taxes" that will in any way keep business people from creating and building businesses.

    It's what, before John McCain fell behind in the election, McC called "irresponsible" because it "benefits only the rich???.

    McC now has sold out to the Bush machine that enabled the megarich to loot trillions from our country, while they pay taxes well below what they did under Reagan.

    But worse, McC wants to give additional billions of tax give aways to the oil companies, the one's that just reported the biggest quarterly pofits in the history of the world, breaking the then newest record they set the quarter before.

    Allowing the Bush tax give away to the rich will only allow that give away to expire.

    Only those who make more than $250K AFTER DEDUCTIONS will see their taxes rise back to where they were before the Bush tax give away to the rich.

    The McC/Bush propaganda machine has duped anyone who thinks the McC tax position does anything but further enrich the megarich, and think that is to your benefit.

    The real threat to us is the Bush/McC propaganda machine that misinforms and scares people into voting to perpetuate the looting of our country by the megarich.

    ???Country first??? right? Who do you think the lobbyists running McC???s campaign are looking out for?

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/02/2008 7:18:09 PM


    "Nowforthetruth" is now selling guilt by association that Obama has PLO buddies referring to Rashid Khalidi. McCain donated $440k to Khalidi.

    See for yourselves at: http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html

    "Nowforthetruth", a little more "truth" about guilt by association....

    "Nowforthetruth" also said: "Nins, all you prove is that you have perpetual PMS and cannot read. If you are as careless in your practice, you are a danger to your profession." You reveal too much of yourself "Nowforthetruth".

    "Nowforthetruth" continues repasting that the cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people. "Nowforthetruth" continues to repeat well known deceit.

    Alan Greenspan stated recently that the problem was not anything like that. Rather, he stated that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation, and "we trusted" these self-interested looters to regulate themselves. Credit Default Swaps were the result.

    Credit Default Swaps increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under the R stewardship. No regulation.

    While there are several variations of a viral email that tries to blame a few thousands of political donations to some Ds, the actual, legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to Republican lobbyists to lobby Rs, only, to PREVENT REGULATION.

    McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to present, to lobby Rs,only, against regulation. Freddie paid Rick Davis while he has been McC's campaign manager. Freddie donated $250k to the R convention.

    These facts are everywhere in the legitimate news: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1 There's much more legitimate news on this.

    Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. It is inescapable that the Rs, most prominently McC's campaign manager, were in the pockets of big money while they drove the buss off the cliff with us in it.

    You can try to distract people with fears about 'those guys'. Lies, distortion, deception. 'Socialist' is only the last in a long, now desperate, list of labels you have tried to pin on 'that one'. That's all you have left.

    Is your most recent reposting here directed to fears about "Socialism", or is it just innuendo, or are we trying to fold in a little racism too?

    Since we have no more ideas, let's keep running our campaign on fear, smears and hypocrisy.

    Keep talking "Nowforthetruth", you're really helping. You keep demonstrating that we all have to vote against lies and propaganda and attempts to hijack our political process with deceit. Your actions are the kinds of reasons that I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never having voted for a Dem.

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: issachar5 @ 11/02/2008 11:00:01 AM

    The one constituency on earth truly supporting Israel are what the newspaper types call "evangelical Christians". Palin is a true Christian, and like all true Christians, she supports Israel, prays for the peace of Israel, and is definitely NOT of that crowd which encourages Israel to give away land for peace. She would strongly oppose giving ANY part of Jerusalem away. Indeed, Palin is the most Pro-Israel of all the candidates; having her inform McCain of the "sign of the times" and what God's plan is could only greatly increase McCain's support of Israel. Obama? Well, how can Jews support him? He spent 24 years in one of the most anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, anti-American, pro-terrorist(Sandanista, and Hezbollah) churches, and congregations that I have ever come across. Obama would be a true curse for Israel, and he would be proud of it. Believe me, (true) Christians WILL NOT vote for this man, because true Christians are Israel's strongest supporters.

    • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/02/2008 11:23:48 AM

      Now that we know Obama has PLO buddies, no thanks to the LA Times, looks like maybe Jesse Jackson knows a good bit more about Obama's politics than the national media does, or JewsForObama for that matter.
      "Press Releases
      AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jacksons Comment on American Jews
      October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades."
      "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. "This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
      Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."
      http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743
      Sounds a good bit more like Hitler to me. Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown" ?

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/02/2008 11:22:47 AM

    Is it likely Newsweek would tell the truth?

    Study finds Media has Betray Trust of American People
    Newsweek Article:
    Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
    Study finds comments on evening newscasts over the past two months favored the Obama campaign

    "For whatever reason, the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than John McCain," said Robert Lichter, a George Mason University professor and head of the center. "If you watch the evening news, you'd think you should vote for Obama."

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/165218

    "A former Newsweek reporter admitted in an article this week that he has no objectivity and imagined disabling Rudy Giuliani so he wouldn't run in the presidential primary race last year.
    Michael Hastings wrote in GQ magazine that he had a "recurring fantasy" that he could somehow stop the former New York City mayor in his tracks.
    "I quickly realized Rudy was a maniac. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took him out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did. Objectivity is a fallacy," he said."

    http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_7484&pageNum=2

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/55_say_media_bias_bigger_problem_than_campaign_cash

    55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem Than Campaign Cash

    http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080819.asp

    Pew Research finds Media Credibility Plummets, Just 30% Believe 'Most Trusted' CNN

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/51_say_reporters_are_trying_to_hurt_palin_39_say_she_has_better_experience_than_obama
    51% Say Reporters Are Trying To Hurt Palin; 39% Say She Has Better Experience Than Obama

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 8:40:41 AM

    Articles like this are so grabbing for straws in the last days of the campaigns by a publication that is so in the tank for Obama! It is really sad and pathetic. Palin is the most pro Israel candidate of all four. As Governor, she had in her office an Israeli flag alongside the American flag!

  • Posted By: nureetco1 @ 11/02/2008 1:41:01 AM

    She is a great person and a great running mate. I don't know where you people get your info, you are so full of hate. I think if Jacky O was McCain running mate, you, at the media will go after her worse than you do on Palin. Anyway, You are so one sided. Just tell the truth - Obama deosen't know what he is talking about. He is not telling us where he is planning to get all the money for his megalomenians projects. He is not clear on taxes for those making 250k, 200k 150k, the numbers are down everytime there is an uproar. He did not tell anyone about the illigal aunt, is he going to disowne her too? He says he will get the trups back from Iraq, but he is not telling that he is going to send them to Afganistan. When is he going to learn to tell the simple truth. He sounds to me like the "Manchurian Candidte". He is well packaged by 7th avenue public relations firms but the inside of the package holds many ugly surprises.
    The answer for America and world on these dangerouse water is McCain/Palin

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 3:48:13 PM

    Jewish Americans throughout the country have joined together in support of Barack Obama for President. He shares our values and our belief in the virtually unlimited potential for Americans and America to do good in the world. Obama???s vision for America is our vision as well.

    The American Jewish community has always been civically engaged in improving the country and repairing the world. We have waited many years to be able to vote for a President who truly represents us. Barack Obama???s positions on social justice, civil rights, the environment, immigration, and helping the downtrodden truly exemplify Jewish values. His nuanced position on abortion parallels the traditional Jewish view. Throughout his career, he has been a strong supporter of Israel and has repeatedly and publicly spoken out against anti-semitism. Obama will be a great President for us and for all Americans!

    We, the creators of Jews For Obama, are volunteers, neither affiliated with nor paid by the Obama campaign. Each of us has spent many hours examining Obama???s background, experience, qualifications, record, and policy proposals. We deeply believe that Barack Obama is the right leader for America.

    www.JewsForObama.com

    • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/01/2008 10:48:31 PM

      Now that we know Obama has PLO buddies, no thanks to the LA Times, looks like maybe Jesse Jackson knows a good bit more about Obama's politics than the national media does, or JewsForObama for that matter.
      "Press Releases
      AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jacksons Comment on American Jews
      October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades."
      "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. "This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
      Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."
      http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743
      Sounds a good bit more like Hitler to me. Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown" ?

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/01/2008 10:48:05 PM

    The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I will not vote for Obama.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:27:08 PM

    What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 3:47:44 PM

    According to CNN, even Arizona is now a toss-up state. How humiliating for Senator McCain. He put his campaign and his reputation in the hands of common liars and crooks, and Sarah Palin is making an ass of him. Her Florida rallies today did not have his name on any of the signs, banners or literature. And the website listed on all the lit was www.GOP.com. Ouch!

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 3:47:16 PM

    Jesse Jackson is no friend of the Jews (hymie-town) and no friend of Barack Obama (He???s talking down to black people. I wanna cut his nuts off.). As reported in The Washington Post, Jackson has not been asked to serve as an Obama surrogate, has not been asked to campaign jointly with him, and was given no role at the Democratic National Convention for the first time in decades and was not asked to endorse Obama.

    And yet, for some inexplicable reason, Obama detractors would have us believe that Jackson is accurately describing Obamas policies and beliefs when he yet again puts his foot in his mouth and says something stupid, boneheaded, and completely detached from reality.

    Why should we take seriously anything that Jesse Jackson has to say about Barack Obama? Frankly, the only thing the two men have in common is the color of their skin.

    And, as Jeffrey Goldberg recently so eloquently put it, -So, all you rumor-mongering, fever-headed Jewish conspiracists, it becomes obvious that what you fear is not Israel???s destruction, but the presence of an African-American in the White House. -

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/01/2008 1:25:55 PM

    Now that we know Obama has PLO buddies, no thanks to the LA Times, looks like maybe Jesse Jackson knows a good bit more about Obama's politics than the national media does, or JewsForObama for that matter.
    "Press Releases
    AJC Strongly Condemns Rev. Jesse Jacksons Comment on American Jews
    October 14, 2008 - New York - The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson's statement about "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades."
    "Rev. Jackson's remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today's New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power," said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. "This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.
    Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president."
    http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=6107743
    Sounds a good bit more like Hitler to me. Isn't this the same Democrat leader who once called New York "Hymietown" ?

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