Posted on 03/25/2008 4:45:57 PM PDT by Libloather
Republican Jewish group wants Obama adviser canned
By Sam Youngman
Posted: 03/25/08 03:41 PM [ET]
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Tuesday to remove military adviser and national campaign co-chairman Gen. Tony McPeak from his team, citing past statements McPeak has made about the Middle East that the RJC finds troubling.
Matt Brooks, executive director of the RJC, said in a statement that in keeping McPeak as a surrogate and campaign spokesman, “serious questions and doubts are once again being raised about Sen. Obama’s positions and judgment on Middle East issues.”
In its statement, the RJC cited a 2003 interview McPeak did with the Portland Oregonian in which “Gen. McPeak resorted to old stereotypes and unfortunate language by blaming the lack of progress with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process on the undue political influence of American Jewry. The problem, said McPeak, is ‘New York City. Miami. We have a large vote ... here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it.’ ”
Brooks said McPeak is more wont to blame American Jews than Palestinian leadership.
"Sen. Obama continues to surround himself with advisers holding troubling and disturbing anti-Israel bias,” Brooks said. “Gen. McPeak's views are alarming. We call on Sen. Obama to immediately remove Gen. McPeak from his campaign leadership role and as a key adviser.”
The Obama campaign said it disagrees with McPeak’s statement, adding that Obama's “longstanding commitment to Israel is clear to anyone who has reviewed his voting record, read his speeches or looked at his policy papers.”
“As he has said, his support for our democratic ally Israel is based on America's national interests and our shared values,” Tommy Vietor, an Obama spokesman, said in an e-mail. “Neither Sen. [Hillary Rodham] Clinton [D-N.Y.] nor Sen. Obama agrees with every position their advisers take, and in this case Sen. Obama disagrees with Gen. McPeak's comments.”
McPeak has served as a lightning rod of sorts as the Clinton campaign has also been highly critical of comments made by the retired general.
Hussein? Say it ain't so...
Canned? Wouldn’t irradiation work just as well?
These are obviously just typical Jewish people with having no understanding of the struggle!
:-)
Omit “with.”
And I thought McPeak’s great invention—the Air Force doorman’s uniform—would have qualified him for a job in the garment industry...but then I forgot he is “allergic to Jews”.
the gift that keeps on giving... what a "perfumed" prince. ....
sHe remind me of............hmmmmmm
I don't think so.
Another genius who doesn’t get it. You can’t win an election in America running against Israel because the Christians won’t stand for it.
And, anyway, Obama has spent the last 23 years in a pro-Hamas church. When you consider that most American Christians are pro-Israel, what are the odds of spending 23 years in an anti-Israel church?
The problem isn’t McPeak, the problem is Obama. Birds of a feather, and all that. Even if he fires McPeak, don’t kid yourself.
BTW, there are several of us Conservative Republican Jews on FR. In my case, my whole family is Republican as well.
No I meant the word I used “with,” as in “with having no.” I should’ve said having no...
You are definitely in the minority
But a very welcome minority!
Obama will still be voted in, the people who vote for Obama are of the same feathers as McPeak....racists or really dumb Americans...
Good, does this mean that the Jews in America will finally realize that the Dems are bad for them?
Nope. Kvelling?
Jews have warm feelings for Spitzer’s successor
Cleveland Jewish News - Mar 24 9:53 AM
Barely two days after news broke that Eliot Spitzer had consorted with a prostitute in a Washington hotel room and before the New York governor had announced his resignation, Jewish leaders already were kvelling over his successor, Lt.-Gov. David Paterson.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2008/03/24/news/world/jews0314.txt
You know, I just don’t get this crap... I say let the Obama campaign keep him, and just trumpet it to the ends of the campaign season...
Why is it that the opposition party always thinks that it has the right to tell the other side who they’re allowed to have on their team. Both sides do this sort of crap.
I say just let them keep their racists and black panthers, and everyone else they’ve got. Maybe someday the Jews, at least the libtard Jews, will catch a clue.
Mark
And Hillary will steal the big prize. It ain't called Operation CHAOS fer nuthin'!
Bump
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