June 24, 2011, 7:22 AM
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This week we have been witness to two transparent attempts to sell liberal American Jews a bill of goods. And from the looks of things, both were successful.
The first instance of liberal American Jewish credulity this week unfolded Monday night in Washington. At a five-star hotel, eighty Jewish donors shelled out between $25,000- 35,800 to attend a fundraiser with US President Barack Obama.
As has become his habit, Obama opened his remarks by talking about his commitment to Israel's security. And as has become his habit, Obama went on to say that it is his job to force Israelis to bow to his demands because he knows what is best for Israel.
Speaking of his ongoing efforts to force Israel to concede its right to defensible borders before entering into negotiations with the Hamas-Fatah unity government, Obama said, "There are going to be moments over the course of the next six months or the next 12 months or the next 24 months in which there may be tactical disagreements [between the US and Israel] in terms of how we approach these difficult problems."
Obama went on to say that he expects his American Jewish supporters to take his side in his attacks on Israel.
As he put it, the quest for peace between Israel and the Hamas-Fatah government is, "going to require that not only this administration employs all of its creative powers to try to bring about peace in the region, but it's also going to require all of you as engaged citizens of the United States who are friends of Israel making sure...that you're helping to shape how both Americans and Israelis think about the opportunities and challenges."
And how did the Jewish donors respond to Obama's presentation? They loved it. They were, in the words of Obama donor Marilyn Victor, "reassured."
Speaking with Politico, New York businessman Jack Bendheim said, "I think he nailed and renailed his commitment to the security of the State of Israel." Other attendees interviewed in the article echoed his sentiments.
Imagine how they would have swooned if Obama had confessed a secret love for bagels and lox.
What does Obama have to do for these liberal American Jews to accept that he is no friend of Israel's?
Apparently the answer is that there is nothing Obama can do that will convince his many American Jewish supporters that he is not Israel's friend. They will never believe such a thing because doing so will require them to choose between two unacceptable options. The first option is to admit to themselves that in voting for Obama, they are voting against Israel.
The self-righteousness shared by many of Obama's Jewish supporters makes this option unacceptable. These are people who demonstrate their goodness by embracing every politically correct liberal cause as their own. From abortion to socialized medicine to free passes for illegal immigrants, to opposition to the Iraq war, liberal American Jews are ready to go out on a limb for every cause the liberal media supports.
But ask them to support anything that in any way compromises their self-image as do gooders and liberals and they will shut you out. Consider their willingness to turn a blind eye to Obama's twenty-year association with his anti-Semitic preacher Jeremiah Wright. Just this week Wright was back in the news when he delighted a crowd of thousands of African American worshippers in Baltimore by libeling Israel saying, "The State of Israel is an illegal, genocidal ... place. To equate Judaism with the State of Israel is to equate Christianity with [rapper] Flavor Flav."
During the 2008 presidential campaign liberal American Jews attacked critics of Obama's long-standing devotion to his Jew hating preacher as McCarthyites who were spreading allegations of guilt by association.
And now, when Obama has made supporting Israel a socially costly thing for his supporters to do, rather than pay the price, his self-righteous American Jewish supporters refuse to admit that Obama is not pro-Israel. They attack as a liar anyone who points out that his policies are deeply hostile to Israel.
For instance, Monday National Jewish Democratic Council Chairman Marc Stanley told reporters, "Key donors are much more savvy than Republicans would have you believe and have taken a much more critical eye towards Republican attempts to lie about the President's record."
ASIDE FROM being morally inconvenient, the other problem with admitting that Obama is anti-Israel is that it requires his Jewish supporters who are unwilling to consciously abandon Israel to contemplate the unattractive option of voting for the Republican nominee for president. And this is something that their liberal conceit cannot abide.
The inability of many liberal American Jews to abide by the notion of supporting someone who isn't part of their fancy liberal clique was on display in their responses to another event that occurred this week.
Just hours before Obama snowballed his Jewish donors in Washington, Yale University engaged in a similarly transparent bid to romance its willfully gullible Jewish supporters.
Yale University's announcement two weeks ago that it was shutting down the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA), unleashed a storm of protest. Students, faculty, alumni and major Jewish organizations all expressed anger and disappointment with Yale's surprise move.
Yale justified its decision on the basis of two falsehoods. First it claimed that YIISA had failed to undertake sufficient top quality scholarship. Yet in the wake of the announcement dozens of leading scholars of anti-Semitism co-signed a letter authored by Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld who directs Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism praising the YIISA as "a pioneer in advancing research on contemporary manifestations of anti-Semitism."
The second reason that Yale claimed it was closing YIISA was because there was insufficient faculty and student interest in its programs. This falsehood was ridiculous on its face since several dozen Yale faculty members served on YIISA's various academic committees and boards of advisors. And in the wake of the university's announcement that it was shuttering YIISA, several faculty members and students protested the move angrily.
The main suspicion provoked by Yale's decision to close YIISA was that it was doing so to appease Islamic critics. YIISA's Director Prof. Charles Small focused its attention on contemporary forms of anti-Semitism. Since the most dangerous form of contemporary anti-Semitism is Islamic anti-Semitism, Small made Islamic anti-Semitism a focus of YIISA's research activities. The concern arose that Yale closed YIISA in order to end campus research and discourse on the topic.
Monday Yale tried to quell the controversy surrounding its decision to close YIISA by announcing that it was forming a new institute called the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism. Yale announced that its tenured professor Maurice Samuels will serve as director of the program. Samuels is a scholar of French literature.
In his acceptance announcement Samuels addressed Yale's critics promising that "YPSA will discuss both contemporary anti-Semitism and historical anti-Semitism."
He also said that in the coming year YPSA will hold a major conference on the topic of French anti-Semitism.
Samuels' statement is notable for two reasons. First, if it is true, then the only difference between YPSA and YIISA is the director. And the only thing Yale was really interested in doing was firing Small. The question is why would they want to fire him?
The answer to that question appears to be found in the second notable aspect of Samuels' announcement: his planned conference. At a time when millions in post-Mubarak Egypt assembled in Tahrir Square and cheered as the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Yusuf Qaradawi called for the invasion of Jerusalem, and with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the brink of nuclear weapons, why would YPSA want to place its focus on France?
Following Yale's announcement that it is launching YPSA, Small released a statement in which he said, among other things, "It appears that Yale, unlike YIISA, is not willing to engage in a comprehensive examination of the current crisis facing living Jews, but instead is comfortable with reexamining the plight of Jews who perished at the hands of anti-Semites. The role of a true scholar and intellectual is to shed light where there is darkness, which is why we at YIISA, are committed to critical engaged scholarship with a broader approach to the complex, and at times controversial context of contemporary global anti-Semitism."
As Small hints, it appears that by forming YPSA, Yale proved its critics right. It closed YIISA because it found Small's concentration on Muslim Jew hatred ideologically problematic. And it opened YPSA because Yale's admininistrastors' trust Samuels to keep researchers and students focused on historic forms of anti-Semitism.
To offset criticism of its transparent move, Yale has been waging a whispering campaign against Small. Yale administrators have been insinuating that because the university did not hire him as a regular member of the Yale faculty that Small is not an academic, or somehow not good enough for Yale.
This campaign brought Holocaust scholar Prof Deborah Lipstadt from Emory University to pen a column in the Forward attacking Small. As she put it, "Part of Yale's discomfort might have come from the fact that a Yale-based scholarly entity was administered by an individual who, while a successful institution builder, was not a Yale faculty member and who had no official position at the university."
But Small was in fact on the Yale faculty. He was a lecturer in the Political Science department and ran one of Yale's post-doctorate and graduate studies fellowship programs. Despite his intensive work building YIISA, Small taught a heavy course load.
Yet while its actions vindicate its critics' greatest concerns, just as Obama was able to win over his Jewish supporters with empty platitudes so Yale's decision to open YPSA has satisfied its most powerful critics. The ADL released a statement applauding the move. Yale's Rabbi James Ponet emailed his colleagues and friends and urged them to email Yale's President and Provost expressing their support for the move.
THEIR WILLINGNESS to support Yale's bid to curtail research and discussion of Islamic Jew hatred and allow Yale to scapegoat Small demonstrates an affliction common to liberal American Jews today. It is the same affliction that makes them unable to countenance voting for a Republican. That affliction is class snobbery. By insinuating that Small is not up to Yale's academic standards, Yale was able to rally the Jewish members of its larger community by appealing to their snobbery. The fact that Yale didn't mind Small serving as a dissertation advisor to its doctoral candidates is immaterial. The facts be damned.
The same Ivy League snobbery that makes it socially unacceptable to vote for a Republican - and certainly not for a Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann despite their deep-seated and consistent support for Israel - is what allowed Yale to get away with ending its study of Islamic anti-Semitism by besmirching Small's academic achievements and good name. Remove him from the club, and you end opposition to his academically unjustifiable firing.
The great circus master P.T. Barnum said famously that there is a sucker born every minute. Liberal American Jews aren't born suckers. They become suckers out of their own free will.
Originally published in the Jerusalem Post.
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Caroline, you ask "What does Obama have to do for these liberal American Jews to accept that he is no friend of Israel's?" I don't know that there is anything he can say or do that would convince these liberal Jews of his true feeling towards Jews and the Jewish State short of actually inciting riots against us G-d forbid. Once again it is the old story of "don't make any waves." Why then should we be concerned about the new Islamic oriented antisemitism? I have heard liberal Jews say we are becoming paranoid especially here in the US. Liberal Jews are so busy being American and hoping to fit in that they've forgotten a fundamental fact. Once a Jew always a Jew. In the final analysis we will be judged on our Jewishness, not how much money we contributed to the Obama campaign, the Democratic party, or Yale University. Shabbat shalom.
I don't think Liberal Jews (and it's all Liberal Jews not just the American ones), choose to "become suckers of the their own free will". It's more instinctive than that, it's like they want to be suckered, sort of like having a gene that prediposes you to be alcoholic or addicted to gambling. It also gives them some sort of plausible deniability when things turn nasty - they think they can say afterwards (if they survive) "well we were conned, even the most sceptical can fall for the long-con. He seemed like such a nice boy."
Amen Glick! I no longer fear Jihad the Islamist. I fear my own, the Alinsky Jew.
“Liberal American Jewish Suckers” Caroline, you got that right.
For the love of me I find it disheartening liberal American Jews rallying around Obama (the acorn community organizing pamphlet distributing anti-Semite, pretending to be a Christina [for political reasons] who embraces Islam, an incompetent president). They just don’t get it.
He is no friend of Israel. Forget what he says, watch what he does. He is a liar.
I watch Fox New and I would venture to say over 90% of the democratic strategist supporting Obama are Jewish. I watch and listen in amazement.
Is the (Obama, George Soros & Co, liberal left media) kool-aid that intoxicating?
I am not even Jewish and I find Obama’s treatment of Israel very disturbing.
Israel is our only true and trusted friend and ally in the ME while all her Arab neighbors have the world’s worst human rights violations treating their citizens and especially women like crap.
The US government supports the Arab world while they hate us and Israel.
There is something wrong with this picture.
Caroline I wish you could speak to every Jewish Organization in the states, you could be the one to open their eyes and free them from the drunken spell.
Why don’t American Rabbis ‘speak out, are they so disconnected to Israel?
WAKE UP AMERICAN JEWS, PLEASE WAKE ISRAEL NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
no way will i ever vote for this looooossssseeerrr...he sucks
For most non Orthodox Jewish women,their slogan is הכל תלוי ברחם, it all depends on the uterus. They rank abortion rights as the number one issue when they vote. They want the “nasty Republicans” to keep their hands off of their uterus if they choose to have an abortion. The hard core lefties will always find a way to make an excuse for Obama. It’s a “cultural thing” for many Jews to feel accepted among other Jews and “supporting Democrats no matter what the case” is part of their misguided culture. For the record, I am a male and my wife is an OB/GYN, a Republican and a supporter of ABO (anyone but Obama).
So soon after Obama snubbed Israel by ignoring Netanyahu's plea to release Jonathan Pollard and again refusing to even release Pollard to attend the funeral of his father Obama ,head held up high comes to collect his bribe from the proud and successful Jews of America.
The right wing in Israel and America are silent as they were when their god Bush also refused to release Pollard.
The handwriting is on the wall and Jews again turn their heads enmasse.
Jews have become powerless in the new America and all they have left are the empty shell organizations and their great yearly empty pontifications,their royal banquets and grand meetings which continue to feed their delusions that America could never turn into a Germany or a Russia of pogroms.
I think what everyone is ignoring is that the godless,soul less,perverted leftist Jews are just trying to save their lives by paying off the Czar in money and attacks on their homeland.
Obama gets a twofer from this self centered,blind, arrogant and headed for destruction.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
Obama and the great fall is here,in progress before our eyes !
caroline these are commie jews who will betray israel and america just like the commie rosenbergs did.for this i would deny them entry into israel. they are promoting anti-semitism by kissing president bongos' ass but they don't care as long as they see bongo trying to advance his communist agenda.these jews are traitors and they give all jew haters reason to hate them.how can we get through to these blind people who refuse to see?
"it is his job to force Israelis to bow to his demands because he knows what is best for Israel"...the Obummer also decided that it's his job to put his socialist/left-wing ideology onto the US because he knows better than everybody else and the US people buckle and cave. It's disturbing about the ignorant Jewish lib elites..they're so full of themselves. I voted dem. and liberal for decades until I moved to San Francisco and saw two things: the anti-Israel sentiment and the horrible state the city was allowed to fall into by the libs. They were two undeniable facts and they opened my eyes to the lie I'd believed since college.
I can't help but be reminded of the elitist Jews and our feckless leaders who told us everything would be fine during the Shoah, who refused to fight back. We are fractured yet again, and our enemies are exploiting that weakness. The Reform, Hasidic, and many Orthodox are to blame for this. The Reform have forgotten what it means to be a Jew. The Hasidic have abandoned everything that made Judaism unique. Many Orthodox exclude other streams over petty reasons. It seems to me that only the Masorti actually have Judaism's best interests in mind, are the only ones who seem to believe in unity. We will never survive if this continues.
None are so blind, as those who will not see....
They are socialists (some are Marxists) one and all and believe that being a good socialist, is more important than being a Jew, or anything else for that matter.
It's hard for them to recognize that Hitler was a socialist and the disposition of the Soviets is not in question either, and yet these things are ignored. Ignored because ideology and group identification is more important than any truth.
You could start handing out yellow stars and start herding them to cattle cars and they would still cling to the cause because they are unanchored by truth and fact and they cannot see that some of them, aren't at all like them. Oh, the ideology is the same but that's where is ends and those cattle cars begin. Of course then none of them will be on those cattle cars. Those cars are for other people. Other Jews. For a time.
All we like sheep have gone astray....
What does it mean to be Jewish? If it's in the genes, then Jewishness covers the political spectrum. If it's Abraham, Isaac, Jacob ... Moses, then -- that's another puzzle. I like the Israel test -- true Jews are those who support Israel. True American patriots are also those who support Israel. It's a sophiscated test that is fairly easy to administer. It is easy to see that the liberal Jews you mention fail the test -- a person with average intelligence should be expected to understand that Obama and Yale are not supporting Israel.
"it is his job to force Israelis to bow to his demands because he knows what is best for Israel"...the Obummer also decided that it's his job to put his socialist/left-wing ideology onto the US because he knows better than everybody else and the US people buckle and cave. It's disturbing about the ignorant Jewish lib elites..they're so full of themselves. I voted dem. and liberal for decades until I moved to San Francisco and saw two things: the anti-Israel sentiment and the horrible state the city was allowed to fall into by the libs. They were two undeniable facts and they opened my eyes to the lie I'd believed since college.
I could only get through the first part. I'll finish it later. It sickens me to see Jews support the plans coming from the executive branch.
I see only plans to weaken Israel and strengthen anything that is anti-Israel coming from the mind of this president. Snap out of the funk. Mr. Obama hates Israel. He hates Jewish people. He hates Christian people.
I just had to add this comment re:"peace requiring...all admins' creative efforts" etc...this is just more of his BS con-job empty rhetoric that he got elected on by a bunch of air heads/the American people, and by facing a dimwit (McCain)who, with all due respect to his Vietnam service and suffering, didn't have the cuhones to expose and address Obummer's empty talk, beginning with the "audacity of hope" cr*p! I'd love to see, just once, somebody confront this leftist fool and turn his empty words against him.
'but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes.
Yeremiah 16
One thing we can all be %1000 certain of is that God will judge the iniquity of His people.
He uses their own blindness and stupidity,their own shovel to dig their own pit to fall in.
That is why they fall for Obama.
The fisherman have been hard at work in the U.S. encouraging Jews to make aliyah before the hunters arrive.
The hunters have always been bloodthirsty murderers.
They are coming and when they do it will be too late for too many Jews in America who said 'It can't happen here'.
This entire circumstance and its so called resolution from conception to its support attests to the degree of broadly based ignorance and demise of Yale , and of all of the individuals to whom you refer.It demonstrates the gaping hole in knowledge of anti-Semitism, past and present, and, thus, European history, and that of Western Civilization. In the end, they should all be mortified.
The history of France and anti_Semitism leads directly to today's present circumstances and
the role of the Arabs-Muslims.It is unavoidable.
Anti-Semitism is ubiquitous throughout the history of the Catholic Church in France and
its aristocracy and, thus, its government,educational system, judiciary, military, politics, and commercial history, and social attitudes.
The exceptional writer and editor, David Pryce-Jones wrote about it in " Betrayal,
France, the Arabs, and the Jews." In Pierre Van Paassen's books there is much that can be culled about the French and the Jews as well.In one, he describes an interview with Leon Blum,then, Foreign Minister of France, as the Nazis were advancing in Europe.
Professor Small must be enjoying this serious
pursuit as parody of itself. He is definitely getting the last laugh.
The tragedy occurs if the similar censorship on speech, materials,books, panels, and discussions about the Jews in France will be conducted under the spectre
of what is determined by an Islamic totalitarian censorship, surrendered to willingly, and with Free Will by Yale for current and potential Arab donors.
Those promoting Sharia and underwriting one area of our Nation after another are winning one battle after another.
Surely, all alumni and staff cannot be that
ignorant as to not have even one alumnus, or alumna, feeling alarmed, thoroughly investigate the situation.Or were Yale grads always really this ignorant, incurious, intellectually cowardly, and ill-equipped to think and think critically? Is that what is being exposed also? Should the adjective, "corrupt," be added, or "anti-Semitic" ?
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
While I am not Jewish, I support Isreal not concede to any of Obama's attempts to make them unsfae in thier own homeland. I wish i could do more to convince the Liberal block that he is nothing but a Muslim radical and should not even be President; how arrogant to think he knows whats best for the Jewish people or for any American people for that matter.
Spot on Carolyn. I'd be shocked if Samuels studies how the muslims in France is now making France judenrein with the collusion of the French.
You all don't get it. Obama cannot support Israel and expect the Arabs to negotiate. If you want to sit for decades more and champion your cause by staying in a state of stasis, in all of your Jewishness, go ahead. This President wants change, which requires upping the ante. Jewish Americans live here. They don't live in Israel. They are Jewish. They're just not zealots.
You can continue to simmer in your hatred and always be on the brink of catastrophe or you can get with Obama's program. For once, someone is trying to do something about the problem, and the President recognizes that Israel is a part of the problem... and the solution.
Your hatred is eating your reason. You are not chosen anymore than anyone else, and the world is telling you the same. You paint yourself to be special and due privileges beyond what everyone else gets... you have no more claim to Israel any more than the American people have a claim to the US.
Israel was given the land by allied powers who erased the slate clean, getting rid of the people that lived there. And you think you've a right to be there? Only an illogical person would see the righteousness of your cause. Negotiate. Come halfway. Or perish. And Hamas and Fatah must do the same. They must admit that Israel has a right to exist, or they will forever live in squalor in the refugee camps that they've been living in for decades, under the thumb of a government that rules them and hates them.
This conflict is one of the sickest tragedies of human nature. Grow up. Our lives are short enough. Share. Children.
There is another book illustrative of the intertwining of, or the influence of Anti-Semitism
in French History still permeating the thinking of
French intellectuals and artists.It is Alan Riding's " And the Show Went On." Some of his examples of those artists and intellectuals who lived under Nazi Occupation and who continue to characterize France, and were virulently anti-Semitic,and who collaborated with the Nazis, may be surprising.At Arutz Sheva is a review by Giulio Meotti. He expands the connections into other European countries to include those in Spain,Italy,England, and Sweden, updating associations with Arab Palestinian terrorists. I guess, Skull and Bones is mild compared to prerequisites of these affiliations.
"As has become his habit, Obama opened his remarks by talking about his commitment to Israel's security. And as has become his habit, Obama went on to say that it is his job to force Israelis to bow to his demands because he knows what is best for Israel"
The birth & death certificate kenyan did exactly the same diabolic trick earlier with NASA's programs. First he arranged an empty Kennedy Space center hangar filled with white staffers dressed as Nasa workers and than he read from the teleprompter in front of the "audience" and the camera that there was no man in the world who loved space exploration more than he ... and the next thing he did was killing it (Ares I,IV & V & Orion) with the Augustine report and told his appointee Charles Bolden to use US tax payers money to have muslims interested in science ... atom bombs maybe ?
The kenyan is an evil creature !
Melanie Phillips. Brilliant. And sobering.
http://www.therightscoop.com/the-media-war-on-israel-that-they-arent-fighting/
Re: A Sucker Born Every Minute
As everyone knows politics is at least in part the art of persuasion. Every politician does his or her best to find common ground with the many pieces of their party here in the US and even reach out whenever possible to independents if not quite across party lines to guarantee their re-election. Obama has made strides to reframe the international dialogue on peace and extremism by engaging the Muslim world even as he continues the policies of the Bush administration in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. As for Israel, he has upgraded their strategic advantage by funding missle defense and enhancing operational military relations at the same time he has taken unsuccessful steps to restart substantive peace negotiations. It may be that Obama and his minyons were more than naive in believing they could impose a ban on settlement construction on a Likud led right wing Israeli government. There is not much room however between Dennis Ross and the leadership in Israel or its American partners. I don't believe Caroline that your arguments gain ground by calling liberals suckers or far worse.
Sometimes the best way to resolve a situation is from outside. Both Palestinians and Jews have lost sight of the bigger picture a long time ago. Jews have to start accepting that being stronger in army has made them a bully by definition. Justified or not that is what Israel is now, a bully. It is time for an outside perspective to be considered. Liberal thinking by definition is progress, open mindedness and compromise, all of which are employed in any settlement of a neighbourly dispute by a judicial system. Seeing articles like this makes it evident why there has been no change in the situation, this is not a way forward it is only fuel on a very old fire. Obama is working from a fresh perspective, he has no agenda, nothing to gain and a lot to lose. What is often expressed on this issue is a representation of emotion, which by definition is irrational and impulsive. Its time for more liberal thinking.
Obama has an agenda! Every politican has an agenda, and Obama has everything to gain by using tagiyya to achieve his ends. Read his Cairo speech (his state of the ummah address!), note his bowing to the Saudi king, his appointment of 32 czars answerable only to HIM, his personal association with the homegrown anti-American terrorist William Ayers and his wife, his 20 plus years of indoctrination by Rev. Wright, his campaigning for a Muslim politican in Kenya, his involvement in the illegal organization ACORN, and on and on and on. Remember this; Muslims are awfully keen on beheading kuffar. Fools, and their Freedom, are Soon Parted!
Leftist Jews are doing the same thing all Leftists do: practicing selflessness and self-sacrifice, which is nothing but self destruction.
Read Ayn Rand.
Hi Caroline:
I was listening to you on Mark Levin tonight and have often asked the question of how New York Jews ever voted for this guy in the first place. I will often get into fights (verbal of course) on a Friday night discussing Obama, his past, his present and his future. I live in an extremely Jewish and extremely liberal enclave on Long island and the mentality of the people absolutely boggles the mind. I had written two articles of a similar type at The Political Commentator recently questioning the ability of people to be fooled or duped twice by Obama. The first was "Obama, Jews, Israel and the transitive property" (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2011/05/obama-jews-israel-and-transitive.html) and the second "Unscientific poll: Jews still willing to vote for Obama!" (http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2011/05/unscientific-poll-jews-still-willing-to.html). I will keep fighting and I know that you will too. Mike
only eighty Jewish people ????
not a big numbers like the first elections.
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all the best
Lea