Well, at least this time around,
Rev. Falwell won't be around to make bone-headed statements.
Unfortunately, there's still Pat Robertson.
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 11:32 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Logically, you would have thought that Jews would have
gravitated to
the GOP years ago. Well, maybe not so much. The
Republicans keep
doing really stupid things and therein is a story all its
own. Regardless,
comparing the two groups, Jews and Democrats, Jews have
more in common with Republicans these days. Wasn't true
in the past, but is now.
It isn't so much that Hussein is anti-Israel, although he
sure comes
across that way half the time, but that when he says
something about the
Mid East and it almost always is pro-Muslim.
I watched part of his appearance before AIPAC. Yes, he
said things
that outwardly indicated continued support for Israel.
But he was
being argumentative, if there was warmth and sincerity it
was
anything but obvious.
He wants it both ways, his usual approach to most things.
Politics doesn't work that way.
Billy
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message dated 5/22/2011 9:15:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight
Time, [email protected] writes: 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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