[SJackson]

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[Izzy Dunne]

Koch, along with Zell Miller, Sam Nunn and a few others, prove that not ALL Democrats are insane.

Still, it's the safe assumption.

[silverleaf]

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?

[UCFRoadWarrior]

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

[Mr. Brightside]

You think Koch will endorse Obama with his antisemitism?

[proxy_user]

This is ethnic politics, not anti-Semitism.

You can bet that Baker would have given them what they wanted, if they had voted Republican.

[dennisw]

hmmmm...

[Dilbert56]

He did, however, serve as the mayor's link to the Caped Crusader.

[PurpleMan]

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?

[musicman]

[Ann Archy]

WHY did Jack Kemp go to Koch and tell him this?? What was in it for Kemp? Sounds kind of school boyish tattle tale.

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.

[Obadiah]

Isn’t Zbigniew Brzezinski currently advising Barak Hussein Obama?

[LiveFree99]

What I never understood was how this bozo Baker, who was always a Bush family retainer, was able to serve as President Reagan’s chief of staff from 1981 to 1985.

[Fiji Hill]

Meanwhile, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the wearing of baseball caps has become widespread among Orthodox Jewish men in France who fear that wearing a yarmulke will invite anti-Semitic attacks

Wouldn't they still stand out? I would think that baseball is virtually unknown in France, and that very few Frenchmen wear baseball caps.

[denydenydeny]

Focusing on the controversy over a cartoon in a Rutgers University newspaper mocking the Holocaust, Mayor Koch initiated correspondence with university presidents, scholars and free speech specialists about whether Rutgers was correct that it was powerless to respond.

Compare with the Islamic cartoon controversy, where only three or four print publications in the entire world have had the guts to publish them. It puts all these champions of free speech in a new light.

[CORedneck]

In my opinion, we should give support first to Israel. With that said, Mr. Baker needs to be retired out of government work unless he becomes a democrat.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"[Expletive] ‘em. They [the Jews] didn’t vote for us."

This is not an anti-semitic comment.

It is an expression of feeling, which is highly encouraged in today's feel-good political environment, combined with a simple statement of fact.

Don't know why Baker even bothered to deny it.

[EternalVigilance]

Baker shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the executive branch.

But you can bet your bottom dollar that it’s his ilk who will run things under McCain, should he win.

More globalist games in which America is always the ultimate loser, where the will and best interests of the American people are nothing.

[Ben Ficklin]

Those who were displeased with the report from the Iraq Study Group thought that the best course was to assassinate James Baker’s character.

[DesScorp]

I’m with Koch on this.