Jewish Dems Start to Abandon Obama

[Polk]

Jews, like Japanese, Koreans, Germans, Italians, Irish, Turks, Maltese, Scots, French, Danes, Sweeds etc etc generally vote on domestic policy. If it were mostly a matter of who is better for Israel, no Democrat (except Henry Jackson) would have got any Jewish support at all after 1973.

I would strongly dispute that. Democrats have been better friends of Israel than Republicans have.

 

[shintao]

Hopefully this will happen all we need is enough Jews to switch and vote against Obama in a few key states, FL, OH, MI Ect.. If this happens Obama will lose.

The spin about Obama showing Israel “tough love” isn’t convincing people primarily because, unlike Democratic leaders of the past whose affection for Israel was not doubted, many Jews have been forced to come to the conclusion the president simply does not have the same warm feelings for Israel most Americans share.Democrats are right to mock Jewish Republicans who predict a shift in Jewish voting patterns every four years. But the problem the Democrats face doesn’t stem from the fact the GOP has become a pro-Israel stronghold. The threat to the Democrats’ stranglehold on the Jewish vote comes from their own party’s leader.

It bears repeating the record 40 percent of the Jewish vote Ronald Reagan garnered in 1980 had more to do with Jimmy Carter’s hostility to Israel than his own appeal. Carter’s loyalists tried to convince Jews of his support back then too, but large numbers didn’t buy it. The same may be true of Obama. It’s true most Jewish Democrats are not one-issue voters and many truly would never vote for a Republican. But few are being fooled by Democratic attempts to get them to ignore their own gut feelings about the president. The Democrats are bleeding Jewish support and fundraising. The only question now is how great the decline in Jewish votes for Obama will be next year.

Jewish Dems Start to Abandon Obama « Commentary Magazine

What warm feelings, and where is a poll showing that "Most" Americans feel that way?? What an article you have there. From the Jewish lobby by any chance?

 

[thereisnospoon]

Oh we get it now. It's not an Arab problem, it's the Jewish problem.
Hey look ass wipe, the last time we heard your kind of rhetoric was 70 years ago and a one nutted fascist with half a mustache came up with the idea of the "final solution".
You already know in which orifice you can cram your anti-Semitism.

Quite the contrary, I think the Zionists have become the Nazis in this situation. THey are like abused children who've gotten big enough to beat on someone else.

Palestine was Arab land for 1400 years before someone got the dumb idea of trying to set up a Jewish state there... Eventually, it will be driven into the sea for the same reason the Crusader States were 800 years before. Because the longer you are practicing this in reality, the less good it looks in theory.

Now, I think that they can buy themselves time by dividing the land up with the Arabs, but eventually, when you get four or five generations away from WWII, people are really going to start asking what all the fuss was about.

Ya know what, every time a protected class is so much as criticized or a generalization is described, the libs go batshit.
This is just another example of the liberal practice of using a double standard.
In other words it's ok to beat up on the Jews because their religion is not part of the political correctness club. Same as Christianity.

 

[Jroc]

Jews, like Japanese, Koreans, Germans, Italians, Irish, Turks, Maltese, Scots, French, Danes, Sweeds etc etc generally vote on domestic policy. If it were mostly a matter of who is better for Israel, no Democrat (except Henry Jackson) would have got any Jewish support at all after 1973.

I would strongly dispute that. Democrats have been better friends of Israel than Republicans have.

Really? How so?

 

[CitizenPained]

Jews, like Japanese, Koreans, Germans, Italians, Irish, Turks, Maltese, Scots, French, Danes, Sweeds etc etc generally vote on domestic policy. If it were mostly a matter of who is better for Israel, no Democrat (except Henry Jackson) would have got any Jewish support at all after 1973.

I would strongly dispute that. Democrats have been better friends of Israel than Republicans have.

You mean like Jimmy Carter?

 

[CitizenPained]

Hopefully this will happen all we need is enough Jews to switch and vote against Obama in a few key states, FL, OH, MI Ect.. If this happens Obama will lose.

The spin about Obama showing Israel “tough love” isn’t convincing people primarily because, unlike Democratic leaders of the past whose affection for Israel was not doubted, many Jews have been forced to come to the conclusion the president simply does not have the same warm feelings for Israel most Americans share.Democrats are right to mock Jewish Republicans who predict a shift in Jewish voting patterns every four years. But the problem the Democrats face doesn’t stem from the fact the GOP has become a pro-Israel stronghold. The threat to the Democrats’ stranglehold on the Jewish vote comes from their own party’s leader.

It bears repeating the record 40 percent of the Jewish vote Ronald Reagan garnered in 1980 had more to do with Jimmy Carter’s hostility to Israel than his own appeal. Carter’s loyalists tried to convince Jews of his support back then too, but large numbers didn’t buy it. The same may be true of Obama. It’s true most Jewish Democrats are not one-issue voters and many truly would never vote for a Republican. But few are being fooled by Democratic attempts to get them to ignore their own gut feelings about the president. The Democrats are bleeding Jewish support and fundraising. The only question now is how great the decline in Jewish votes for Obama will be next year.

Jewish Dems Start to Abandon Obama « Commentary Magazine

What warm feelings, and where is a poll showing that "Most" Americans feel that way?? What an article you have there. From the Jewish lobby by any chance?

The Jewish bloc could swing an election just like any other. Obama also caters to the Arab/Muslim bloc, the Latinos, the blacks, whatever.

From the stats I've seen, it looks like overall approval rating has dropped 3-8 percentage points (depending on who you ask), but the 'trust' that Jews have in his handling of Israel dropped quite a bit more.

I've noticed the headlines differ between major organizations - whoever is right says 'losing support', and left say 'holding steady'. Depends on if you're counting 'approve' or 'disapprove' (some have no answer).

Also, if Obama weren't worried about it, he wouldn't be frantically catering to Jews across the big cities.

It would take something BIG for Jews to leave Obama, though. We're not likely to abandon the party and our values easily, but if Obama is painted as an antisemite, it could work.


my .02.

 

[Jroc]

Hopefully this will happen all we need is enough Jews to switch and vote against Obama in a few key states, FL, OH, MI Ect.. If this happens Obama will lose.



Jewish Dems Start to Abandon Obama « Commentary Magazine

What warm feelings, and where is a poll showing that "Most" Americans feel that way?? What an article you have there. From the Jewish lobby by any chance?

The Jewish bloc could swing an election just like any other. Obama also caters to the Arab/Muslim bloc, the Latinos, the blacks, whatever.

From the stats I've seen, it looks like overall approval rating has dropped 3-8 percentage points (depending on who you ask), but the 'trust' that Jews have in his handling of Israel dropped quite a bit more.

I've noticed the headlines differ between major organizations - whoever is right says 'losing support', and left say 'holding steady'. Depends on if you're counting 'approve' or 'disapprove' (some have no answer).

Also, if Obama weren't worried about it, he wouldn't be frantically catering to Jews across the big cities.

It would take something BIG for Jews to leave Obama, though. We're not likely to abandon the party and our values easily, but if Obama is painted as an antisemite, it could work.


my .02.

All one has to do is look around him, his advisers and his mentors, you won't have to go to too far to prove he is anti-Israel. Ok.. he has a few token Jews in there that seems to impress some.

 

[CitizenPained]

He's recognized the Muslim Brotherhood, he's made Israel look bad, he's forced Israel to try and 'recognize' Hamas...either he hates Israel or thinks he can strong-arm Netanyahu into doing what makes Obama look good...yeah, that doesn't work.

 

[LoVE]

God does exist, He believes in you, and we don't really care if you believe or not. You will, no doubt about it.

Now, nothing that has been written in this thread has given any solid frame of reference that Jews are going to desert Obama, nothing.

Hey, if you want to believe in your magic sky man and his son the zombie made of wafers, you can, knock yourself out. It's a free country, and as long as you don't try to impose your bronze age superstitions on the rest of us, no problema, man.

Frankly, I take great comfort in the fact the God of the bible is a fairy tale, because he's really a nasty piece of work. There's really nothing redeeming about him. He drowns babies because they didn't turn out the way he wanted them to. Even if he did exist, he wouldn't be worthy of anyone's worship.

Now the reason why American Jews probably won't abandon Obama over Israel is because they don't care about Israel. They are the distant cousins they stopped caring about years ago. It's just not that important to them. Especially when such small stakes are being fought over. ( I mean seriously, where the lines are being drawn, not that there are lines being drawn.) The right wing doesn't care about Israel either, other than they want it there so Jesus can come back and even all the scores.

Israel will inevitably be eliminated by sheer demographics. The Arab populations is growing, the Jewish population isn't. If we can just keep them from nuking each other until they learn to deal, that would be an accomplishment.

for 2600 years the jews have been dispersed, now under normal conditions it only takes about 400 years for a people to cease to exist as a race but not so with the jews.kinda makes you wonder how that could be.. have you ever met a Hitite or a sumerian? they were around at the same time as the jews. now suddenly Jews are back in the promised land just as God had said they would be.. read ezekiel 37 pretty good stuff

 

[JoeB131]

Oh we get it now. It's not an Arab problem, it's the Jewish problem.
Hey look ass wipe, the last time we heard your kind of rhetoric was 70 years ago and a one nutted fascist with half a mustache came up with the idea of the "final solution".
You already know in which orifice you can cram your anti-Semitism.

Quite the contrary, I think the Zionists have become the Nazis in this situation. THey are like abused children who've gotten big enough to beat on someone else.

Palestine was Arab land for 1400 years before someone got the dumb idea of trying to set up a Jewish state there... Eventually, it will be driven into the sea for the same reason the Crusader States were 800 years before. Because the longer you are practicing this in reality, the less good it looks in theory.

Now, I think that they can buy themselves time by dividing the land up with the Arabs, but eventually, when you get four or five generations away from WWII, people are really going to start asking what all the fuss was about.

Ya know what, every time a protected class is so much as criticized or a generalization is described, the libs go batshit.
This is just another example of the liberal practice of using a double standard.
In other words it's ok to beat up on the Jews because their religion is not part of the political correctness club. Same as Christianity.

Guy, I'm probably more right wing than you are. Take a look at some of my posts in other threads.

Frankly, I have always been amused that so-called conservatives have taken as part and parcel the subsidy by the American taxpayer of this socialist religious state in the middle east. This is how the NeoCons have infested our party.

I beat up on religion because frankly, I think it's stupid. There is probably isn't a God, and even if you accept there is one, silly fights over who owns some strip of desert wouldn't matter much to a cosmic being with a 14 billion year plan to make a universe. By your own definition, such a being would be above such fights.

Israel was created because a lot of people felt bad because of what the Nazis did, and if the world had voted to give them a chunck of Germany to set up a Jewish State in, that would be just. Instead, they gave them a chunk of someone else's land. Someone who had no hand in the original crime.

"I feel so bad about what happened to you I'm giving you Bob's big Screen TV". I think Bob would have something to say about that.

 

[JoeB131]

for 2600 years the jews have been dispersed, now under normal conditions it only takes about 400 years for a people to cease to exist as a race but not so with the jews.kinda makes you wonder how that could be.. have you ever met a Hitite or a sumerian? they were around at the same time as the jews. now suddenly Jews are back in the promised land just as God had said they would be.. read ezekiel 37 pretty good stuff

Well, technically, they went from being Hebrews to Israelites to Judeans to Jews, and mostly, what we know of their history is what they write themselves, which means I'm sure they've left out the bad parts (like the Israelites were probably not monotheistic, nor was Yahweh the dominant diety.)

And it's not like they've "racially" kept pure. The Israelis are a European, not a middle eastern people. They only thing they've maintained is their religion, and even that they've changed. They aren't stoning adulterers like the Bible says they should.

As for what God said, God says a lot of stuff in the bible. And most religious people are ignorant of it. If more people read the bible, we'd have more atheists.

Read Psalms 137:9. Pretty horrid stuff.

 

[Sunni Man]

After World War II the victorias allies in Europe

Did not want the Jews living there anymore then Hitler did.

So they give them a piece of stolen land that they could call Israel.

And continued the Nazi ethnic cleansing of Jews to the new promised land..

 

[Jroc]

for 2600 years the jews have been dispersed, now under normal conditions it only takes about 400 years for a people to cease to exist as a race but not so with the jews.kinda makes you wonder how that could be.. have you ever met a Hitite or a sumerian? they were around at the same time as the jews. now suddenly Jews are back in the promised land just as God had said they would be.. read ezekiel 37 pretty good stuff

Well, technically, they went from being Hebrews to Israelites to Judeans to Jews, and mostly, what we know of their history is what they write themselves, which means I'm sure they've left out the bad parts (like the Israelites were probably not monotheistic, nor was Yahweh the dominant diety.)

And it's not like they've "racially" kept pure. The Israelis are a European, not a middle eastern people. They only thing they've maintained is their religion, and even that they've changed. They aren't stoning adulterers like the Bible says they should.

As for what God said, God says a lot of stuff in the bible. And most religious people are ignorant of it. If more people read the bible, we'd have more atheists.

Read Psalms 137:9. Pretty horrid stuff.

Can you stick to the friken topic? And your stupidity as been addressed many times. DNA test have proven Jews originated in the mideast, look it up or do a search on the board, but what exactly does that have to do with "Jewish dems abandoning Obama?" are you one of those storm front wack jobs everybody has been talking about?

 

[Sunni Man]

Actually most European and Israeli Jews are Ashkenazi.

Their ancestors were from the Khazar people of Central Asia.

Who were converts to Judaism and have no ancestral connection to the middle east or ancient Israel.

So for them to claim they are going "back"to the land of their forefathers is absurd

Because their forefathers never set foot in the so-called Promised Land

 

[thereisnospoon]

Quite the contrary, I think the Zionists have become the Nazis in this situation. THey are like abused children who've gotten big enough to beat on someone else.

Palestine was Arab land for 1400 years before someone got the dumb idea of trying to set up a Jewish state there... Eventually, it will be driven into the sea for the same reason the Crusader States were 800 years before. Because the longer you are practicing this in reality, the less good it looks in theory.

Now, I think that they can buy themselves time by dividing the land up with the Arabs, but eventually, when you get four or five generations away from WWII, people are really going to start asking what all the fuss was about.

Ya know what, every time a protected class is so much as criticized or a generalization is described, the libs go batshit.
This is just another example of the liberal practice of using a double standard.
In other words it's ok to beat up on the Jews because their religion is not part of the political correctness club. Same as Christianity.

Guy, I'm probably more right wing than you are. Take a look at some of my posts in other threads.

Frankly, I have always been amused that so-called conservatives have taken as part and parcel the subsidy by the American taxpayer of this socialist religious state in the middle east. This is how the NeoCons have infested our party.

I beat up on religion because frankly, I think it's stupid. There is probably isn't a God, and even if you accept there is one, silly fights over who owns some strip of desert wouldn't matter much to a cosmic being with a 14 billion year plan to make a universe. By your own definition, such a being would be above such fights.

Israel was created because a lot of people felt bad because of what the Nazis did, and if the world had voted to give them a chunck of Germany to set up a Jewish State in, that would be just. Instead, they gave them a chunk of someone else's land. Someone who had no hand in the original crime.

"I feel so bad about what happened to you I'm giving you Bob's big Screen TV". I think Bob would have something to say about that.

Shut it. You're a seminar poster.
I'm not going into a theological battle here.
I am discussing the out pouring of deep seated base hatred certain people have against those who practice the Jewish faith.
This Israel/Palestinian thing is just an excuse for ignorant ***** to lash out at Jews.
If the same things being stated about Blacks that are now being posted about Jews, the PC Namby Pambies' hair would be ablaze.
So please, don't give me your nonsense.
This is anti-Semitism. Period.

 

[thereisnospoon]

After World War II the victorias allies in Europe

Did not want the Jews living there anymore then Hitler did.

So they give them a piece of stolen land that they could call Israel.

And continued the Nazi ethnic cleansing of Jews to the new promised land..

Where did you hear that garbage?

 

[Sunni Man]

This is anti-Semitism. Period.

The Jewish answer to everything::

Guy cut you off in the left lane: He is anti-semitic

Paperboy late with your newspaper: He is anti-semitic

Woman moves ahead of you in the checkout line: She is anti-semitic

Fill in the blank ...............: They are anti-semitic

 

[JoeB131]

Shut it. You're a seminar poster.
I'm not going into a theological battle here.
I am discussing the out pouring of deep seated base hatred certain people have against those who practice the Jewish faith.
This Israel/Palestinian thing is just an excuse for ignorant ***** to lash out at Jews.
If the same things being stated about Blacks that are now being posted about Jews, the PC Namby Pambies' hair would be ablaze.
So please, don't give me your nonsense.
This is anti-Semitism. Period.

No, this is me wondering why my country needs to get involved in a stupid fight over who a sky pixie gave a stretch of desert to.

I simply don't care about Israel, any more than you've cared about Darfur or Bosnia or any other place where people are slaughtering each other over religious differences. It's a fight other people are having, it has nothing to do with us. They went in, stole someone else's land, and those people are trying to take it back. I don't want to be a party to it, because I think it's a fairly stupid idea to start with, and even stupider still because religion is involved.

I have contempt for ALL religion, not just yours, bud.

 

[JoeB131]

Can you stick to the friken topic? And your stupidity as been addressed many times. DNA test have proven Jews originated in the mideast, look it up or do a search on the board, but what exactly does that have to do with "Jewish dems abandoning Obama?" are you one of those storm front wack jobs everybody has been talking about?

DNA tests prove they came from Europe... and funny, so do their passport papers.

My ancestors came from Germany, I'm not going to go in there and claim, "Hey, this is my land because my grandpappy lived here 100 years ago." You give up your rights when you leave.

If you think your Sky Pixie gives you that land, let HIM protect you. Quite sticking your finger in my wallet.

 

[Jroc]

Actually most European and Israeli Jews are Ashkenazi.

Their ancestors were from the Khazar people of Central Asia.

Who were converts to Judaism and have no ancestral connection to the middle east or ancient Israel.

So for them to claim they are going "back"to the land of their forefathers is absurd

Because their forefathers never set foot in the so-called Promised Land

Sunni boy, I smacked you down on this stupidity many times since I came to this board. Now you have another loon on here and you start it again? You’re a joke boy, I don't know why anybody here takes you seriously.