Sorry, but if Jews couldn’t figure out who Obama was without the picture, they still wouldn’t have figured him out with the picture. Their ABJECT HATRED towards Republicans prevents them from objectively assessing ANY Democrat.
(and no, not every Jew, but as a group, they are so far left, it defies any logic - they seem to think every Republican president is about to send them to the ovens, despite 21 years of Republicans, starting with Reagan)
Many Ameican Jews are inexplicable politically.
Over the years I have spoken to a number of Jewish-Americans who reflexively support Rats even to detriment of their own financial & personal interests. The explanations run something like this: (For typing brevity Republican = Conservative)
1. Republicans are controlled by the evangelicals. Many American Jews are absolutely convinced of this. They are convinced that GOP/Evangelical government will herd them into camps, introduce Imperial Russian style pogroms or at a minimum put a evangelic into their living room to proselytize to them.
2. Republicans hate the poor and minorities and don’t want a better world.
3. Republican aren’ cool.
Older Jewish Americans go wth 1 & 2, younger ones with 3.