Posted on 09/26/2011 5:42:31 PM PDT by Freemarkets101
Obama's approval ratings, now a record-breaking low among Jewish voters, are almost as pathetic as his ability to omit gaffes from his campaign speeches (every speech he makes these days is a campaign speech). Spouting to the Congressional Black Caucus this weekend, the President somehow managed to confuse "janitors" with "Jews."
(LA Times) - When you start saying, at a time when the top one-tenth of 1 percent has seen their incomes go up four or five times over the last 20 years, and folks at the bottom have seen their incomes decline - and your response is that you want poor folks to pay more?Give me a break.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.
Yes, he used the word Jew and billionaire in the same sentence. Now, I'm not sure what kind of ballyhoo was circulating in the President's head to make this rather odd Freudian slip, but I do have a suggestion. After all, when observing his latest approval numbers - particularly among certain demographics - it's obvious why he would have Jews on the mind.
An annual poll by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), released Monday, showed only 45 percent of Jews approving of Obama’s performance, a significant drop from the 57 percent who approved of his performance in the 2010 AJC poll and a much larger drop from the percentage of Jews who actually voted for Obama.
On a side note: Only five months ago, 83 percent of blacks were “strongly favorable” of Obama’s performance, but a new Washington Post-ABC news poll, released last week, found that number drop to 58 percent. So that brings us to the big question: What if he accidentally used "blacks" and "janitors" in the same sentence? Yikes. I'm thinking Maxine Waters would be even more furious than she is now.
All previous elections have been evaluated on the basis of demographics-how did blacks vote, hispanics, jews, men, women, etc.
There’s a new dynamic, and it’s the reason no one on either side has learned the lesson of the 2010 elections.
It’s where do you work (or not)?
People voted in 2010 based on how they perceive their bread to be buttered. It’s now the private sector versus the public sector, that would be those who perceive their bread to be buttered by government. And the private sector when awakened, as they now are, represent a decided plurality.
Employers used to be the only ones frightened of liberal policies. Now employees, a decidedly larger number, are afraid and incensed. They have instinctively realized that targeting the people who sign their checks as the enemy, can in the end harm them.
The jewish pivot against Obama is not about Israel, it is about America and what it is becoming. It is about fiscal policy alone. We can keep on evaluating politics using demographic groupings if we wish, but we will miss the operative dynamic now in play.
The lines have been drawn since Obama took office. It’s the private sector versus government, and even some government employees realize where all the money comes from.
We’re all one color now, and that color is green.
“If Rick Perry is elected, will I be forced to go to church?”
Of course not! He will be forced to ride the intercontinental railroad with the jeeewwwws
“Why would that be truer for Jewish people than hard working, honest, patriotic Americans of any religion?”
It’s a strong line, but Jews are generally well-educated and have all the access they need to fully assess Obama. So they have no excuses. Blacks I can forgive in 2008, easily, as they’ve waited hundreds of years for that moment (Marxist or not)...as to 2012, their vote is still in their interest and makes strictly from a pocketbook perspective (i.e., Republicans will cut off welfare checks). Hispanics, in large part, get their news from Spanish language media and who the hell knows what’s being written about us there...so seeing them lean liberal makes some sense. Gays make sense, of course, in how they vote.
It is simply next to impossible to figure out Jews though...especially given the way they are DESPISED by this administration.
“But the vast majority of Jews will still vote for him.”
We shall see. Keep in mind if he loses even 10% of the ones he had to Cain in Florida, he loses much of the numerical advantage that he had in 2008 (i.e., besides the Cain voters not counting for Obama, they also neutralize 10% of the Jewish voters that he still gets). Aside from Florida, the real power of Jews in our system is their wallets. At this point, they’ve cut their donations in half (or something like that...as I read somewhere). Still a long way to go, and if Obama can show that Cain is into burning crosses, then Obama likely gets the Jews back, along with their money.
“It is simply next to impossible to figure out Jews though...especially given the way they are DESPISED by this administration.”
And you aren’t? So I think it as stretch, but I hear you. I’ve seen a lot of Jewish conservatives try to explain it - none convincingly.
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