He did, however, serve as the mayor's link to the Caped Crusader.
Posted on 02/29/2008 5:37:29 AM PST by SJackson
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Still, it's the safe assumption.
That “ugly statement” was 100% true.
The Jewish vote is a democrat constituency.
Perhaps Baker should have phrased it more diplomatically?
“Regardless of our course of action, the Jewish vote will go to whoever is running as a democrat and whatever we accomplish will be undone...”
There, is that better?
If Mccain wants the anti-Semitic James Baker (not the first I heard Baker was a Jew hater) in his administration....you can bet McCain will be weak dealing vs Islamic Terror
Koch may be a liberal but he has been very supportive on the War on Terror
This is ethnic politics, not anti-Semitism.
You can bet that Baker would have given them what they wanted, if they had voted Republican.
hmmmm...
He did, however, serve as the mayor's link to the Caped Crusader.
A situation caused to a large extend by Republican bigots like Baker.
Reagan got 39% of the Jewish vote in 1980.
31% in 1984
Bush I got 35% in 1988.
Secretary of State Baker, a bigot, tells Jews like me who voted for Bush to go FU*K ourselves. Classy from a Republican official.
Surprise, surprise, Bush I drops from 35% in 1988 to 11% in 1992, and though I wasn't one of them I can't blame any Jew for voting for Clinton over a President who tolerates bigotry.
And no, there's been no recovery, and yes, Republicans defend Bakers bigotry.
Let me also say that for an official to base American foreign policy on the voting habits of a domestic minority should be a disqualification from office. Shame on Bush I for never addressing this.
The President's job is to do the right thing.
James Baker was apparently more interested in returning favors and using the power of of the US government for if-you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours deals.
Baker is beneath contempt and did not deserve to serve in the Reagan administration.
Nor do they still hold office.
If Baker was Jesse Jacskon, Calypso Louis Farrakhan, Carol Moseley Braun, Cynthia McKinney or Al Sharpton nothing would have been made of the comments.
Oh right.
Didn’t they say similar things and then not taken to task?
And shame on Bush II for never addressing Baker’s perfidy on the Iraq Study Commission.
I aggree with your equivalency, but I've seen criticism from all of them, both from the right and the left. Including Koch. You must not be looking.
Please ping me when any are nominated to cabinet positions.
Ed Koch and other Jews are HURT by words like these, forget what actions are taken because the Democrats actions are usually AWFUL against the Jews, but they say NICE WORDS.....so by Kemp telling this to ed, he has caused a bigger rift and more hurt feelings. Weird.
“Also in the running, it appears, is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser. Years before Baker’s hostile remark about American Jews, Brzezinski, then an adviser to candidate Carter, was reported (by Marvin Kalb) to have said to an Israeli official, “How will you like the idea of working with a new president who owes nothing to the Jews?”
In March 1980, Koch caused a major controversy when he criticized Brzezinski and three other top Carter Mideast advisers as a “Gang of Four” who were trying to turn the U.S. against Israel. (The reference was to a group of Chinese leaders who had been pushed out of power by their rivals.)
“During his years in the Carter administration, Brzezinski did indeed push for a tilt against Israel, as he acknowledged later in his memoirs of that period. More recently, he and several colleagues issued a statement urging the U.S. and its allies to engage in “a genuine dialogue” with Hamas. Brzezinski has endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president and reportedly is part of Obama’s circle of foreign policy advisers.”
Obama would definately ‘CHANGE’ our foreign policy! Brzezinski has actively undermined our efforts in the WOT!
Isn’t Zbigniew Brzezinski currently advising Barak Hussein Obama?
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