He's been sending all of the wrong
messages and he still expects a sizable following?? That's
delusional. The 1967 boundaries?? Really now?? What was he
drinking?
David
"There is
no virtue in compulsory government charity, and
there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who
portrays himself as
"caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the
government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's
willing to try to
do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a
voter who takes pride
in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good
with his own money
-- if a gun is held to his head."--P.
J.
O'Rourke
On 5/22/2011 4:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Note : The "talkback" aka comments
section is very revealing.
I could not get this part of the material to copy, so you
would need
to see for yourself, but as of today , Obama is in Very
Deep Doo-Doo
among a larger segment of Jewish voters , more than any
Democrat has been
since the Reagan era when Republicans won 40 % of this
electorate.
Jerusalem Post
Jewish
Americans ponder support for Obama
By
REUTERS
05/22/2011
01:22
Some
Jewish leaders express alienation, renounce support for
US president, while others say speech did not change
much.
CHICAGO
- Some prominent Jewish Americans are rethinking their
support for US President Barack Obama's 2012
re-election bid after he effectively called for negotiations based on
pre-1967 borders.
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.
Obama on Thursday called for any new Palestinian state
to respect the borders as they were in 1967, prompting
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
to tell him bluntly that his vision of
how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic.
"He has in effect sought to reduce Israel's
negotiation power and I condemn him for that," former
New York Mayor Ed Koch told Reuters.
Koch said he might not campaign or vote for Obama if
Republicans nominate a pro-Israel candidate who offers
an alternative to recent austere budgetary measures
backed by Republicans in Congress.
Koch donated $2,300 to Obama's campaign in 2008,
according to filings with the Federal Election
Commission.
"I believed that then-Senator Obama would be as good
as John McCain based on his statements at the time and
based on his support of Israel. It turns out I was
wrong," he said.
Despite the stormy reaction to Obama's remarks, some
commentators noted talk of the 1967 borders was
nothing new.
"This has been the basic idea for at least 12 years.
This is what Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yasser
Arafat were talking about at Camp David, and later, at
Taba," Jeffrey Goldberg wrote on The Atlantic
website.
"This is what George W.
Bush was talking about with Ariel Sharon and
Ehud Olmert. So what's the huge deal here?"
Exit polls from the 2008 election showed 78 percent of
Jewish voters chose Obama over his Republican rival Senator McCain.
"I have spoken to a lot of people in the last couple
of days -- former supporters -- who are very upset and
feel alienated," billionaire real
estate developer and publisher
Mortimer Zuckerman said.
"He'll get less political support, fewer activists for
his campaign, and I am sure that will extend to
financial support as well."
Zuckerman backed Obama during his 2008 presidential
run and the newspaper he owns, the New York Daily News,
endorsed the president.
Obama's Chicago-based re-election campaign sought to
play down reaction to the shift in the US stance
toward Israel.
"There's no question that we've reached out to the
Jewish donor community, as we have to many other
communities that strongly supported the president in
2008," a campaign spokeswoman said on Friday.
"The continued grassroots organizing and fundraising
efforts of many prominent leaders in the Jewish
community makes it clear this will remain a strong
base of support in 2012."
Texas-based real estate developer Kirk Rudy, who is a
deputy finance chairman for the Democratic National
Committee, said he exchanged phone calls and e-mails
with a large network
of supporters since the president's speech "trying to
take people's pulse" and has not seen a strong
backlash.
"I have seen very emphatic and robust support -- and
financial support -- from the Jewish community," Rudy
said, adding Obama received "significant financial
participation from the Jewish community" at two
fund-raisers in Austin, before the Middle East speech,
that brought in roughly $2 million.
Since the speech, Rudy has received e-mails from angry
voters but the overwhelming majority of his network
will continue to donate and not cross party lines, he
said.
But Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of
America, wrote an open letter to the American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC,
calling on it to cancel a scheduled address by Obama
to the lobby group on Sunday.
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