Posted on 09/30/2004 8:36:26 AM PDT by nypokerface
Not expecting the Jewish vote to go to Bush either, but I imagine he will get more than he did 4 years ago.
Had dinner with an intermarried couple like my wife and I last night, only they are liberals. Very nice people, though, and good friends.
I was shocked and appalled to find out that the (Jewish) lady's favorite Democrat is Hillary, who is seemingly an anti semite. I mean it's one thing to think you are a "liberal," but wanting to vote for a commie as president of the US is way over the top.
OTOH, the 4 of us aren't young anymore, and I think it is the younger generation of Jews that has a chance of leaving the traditional leftist fold.
What does she think of that photograph of HELLARY giving Arafat's wife on the cheek?
I'm sure she has a way to rationalize or overlook it, if she is aware of that picture. It may not have gotten as much play in the mainstream press as here on FR?
Left leaning Jews have so far been able to overlook the rising tide of leftist anti semitism.
And, in my experience, although they love Israel, they tend to side with Israel's Left and favor things like the Stockholm Accord or whatever it was called.
That's unfortunate. Here in the Bay Area, seeing the blatantly anti-Semitic demonstrations at campuses like San Francisco State chills my blood. I would like to see the threads between terrorist Islam and the Nazis more clearly drawn ... I don't recall the name, but Hitler had a Muslim cleric as one of his liaisons to the Middle East, and it was brutal.
Right now, holding off the Islamofascists is very important in preventing another Holocaust. These guys don't think that Hitler went far enough.
In honor of Sukkot!
I think the Islamic strain of anti Semitism is showing up more and more clearly on the Jewish radar and is one of the reasons why Bush will get a larger share of the Jewish vote this time around, assuming that I am right about him getting that.
We celebrated the Yom Kippur feast with different friends the other night, I think at least half (maybe more) of the people there were planning on voting for Bush. It wouldn't have been that way 10 years ago.
A nice essay but not a very well made argument.
Ech...! :)
Sorry Rabbi. Jews will vote the same as Arab Americans. That's sad but true.
Sure, you've been here long enough to know that all Democrats are disloyal. How it is I know more combat vets that vote D to R escapes me.
It's... it's... it's almost as if they were voting in favor of their own EXECUTIONERS -- ! :)
You are exactly right. Nope, ain't gonna happen. As a group they vote for their persecutors. I still can't figure out how any good American could vote for Kerry given his Senate track record alone, much less all the other garbage.
RB
Okay. Just so you won''t feel I misled you, later on down the road: you DO know my comment was in response to SJackson's, re: combat vets, right...? :)
That's a hopeful sign ...
David Horowitz is a child of these same communist parents and he has realized the perfidy of communism. Today he is certainly one of the most prominent anti-communists and pro-Republicans in the country.
There are quite a few just like him. They are just not as visible as the Barbra Streisands.
Older Jews remember the anti-Semitism of pre-World War Two in the U. S. (Remember Henry Ford and Charles Limburgh, as two examples). They loved FDR and have never forgotten him and have voted Democrat ever since.
Younger Jews don't have those memories or those loyalties. They are not locked in to the Democrat Party and more will be voting Republican in this election and in future elections.
I read all these threads and everyone is so concerned about what a spare 2% of the population will do. It defies reason. Jews are only enough of a voting block in New York and Florida to have much effect on the national election.
Why is everyone so concerned about where the Jewish vote goes?
It must be for reasons of moral validation.
For some strange reason, it seems to matter to some whether Jews support particular positions, programs or political causes. It seems somehow to lend moral stature to these efforts.
After reading some of these threads and the comments of various posters, I would keep my vote private and privileged information. I desire neither the anti-Semitic sneers of some, the ignorance of the few, or the fawning and pandering of others.
Some of the posters have no idea how offensive their comments are both to Jews and to blacks.
Blacks, by the way, are beginning to break away from the Democrat Party too. Middle class blacks are finding more in common with the moral principles of the Republican Party than with the Democrat Party. It is a trickle now, but within a few more elections it will be a flood. Unless, of course, they were to read some of the unflattering and racist comments of some of the posters here.
Jewish people are often "over achievers" and usually exert influence out of all proportion to the their numbers. Even Mark Twain remarked on this. So while their votes are not many, their influence is noticable.
Yes, I agree with you that there are offensive comments and that they have a negative effect.
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