Posted on 05/23/2008 7:14:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Barack Obama—kibbutznik?
Of all the ways the presidential candidate sought to connect with Jewish voters at Congregation B'nai Torah in Boca Raton yesterday, perhaps the most heartfelt seemed these lines:
BARACK OBAMA: As I learned more [about the Zionist movement], I found I had a deep affinity with the idea of social justice that was embodied in the Jewish faith. There was a notion–tikkun–that you could repair the breach of the past. There was a notion, embodied in the kibbutz, that we all had a responsibility to each other. That we're all in this together. That hope can persevere even against the longest odds.
View video here [link is to RCP clip; cited remarks from 0:30-2:50.]
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Salute to socialism ping to Today show list.
Latest rasmussen national poll has 42% of the jewish vote going to McCain. Bush has 13% and still won, so do the math.
Obama will never be president.
"The evening call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth".
Right. Let's not lose our heads over this.
Except when it comes from a mosque!
Leftists think that the best vehicle for promoting “we’re all in this together” is to use FORCE to make it so.
Actually, they have a blind spot as to the difference between groups voluntarily banding together to help each other out, and using force to make it happen.
They really don’t understand the difference, probably because of their worldview and arrogance. They know better, and are entitled and obligated to force their greater wisdom on the rest of society.
I have no idea how any of the Jews anywhere can believe anything he says, all they have to do is read what he has said over the last 10 yrs. Oh, now he changed his mind? I hardly think so!
Pandering halfrican!
I also would never rule out the "I hate my Jewish heritage" crowd showing up to shoot themselves in the foot once again. You would think the Hamas leader's endorsement would be enough, but never count out total brain damage. In Texas we have the " I hunt every year and own 32 guns but my dad always votes Democrat" crowd that still votes against God, guts and guns anyway.
AFAIK Bush had 26% in 2004. But McCains numbers are of Reaganesque proportions. I think only Eisenhower got a few more.
What blows my mind is that some of the Jewish vote still goes to the Dems...
OUTSTANDING work, Mark! Informative, insightful, educational. Thank you, sir.
Many thanks, PG: glad you found it useful.
Hussein thinks tikkun is Hebrew for reparations.
Odumbo to Jews: Gather your family and belongings and board the train...
That’s harsh.
Funny thing is that the Kibbutz is not your Grandfather’s Kibbutz. Most have become a capitalistic for profit corporation with with factories with employees. They have matured and have found that survival in a High Tech Israel soceity that they could no longer be the collective model. So Mr. Obama. Your behind the times again.
Should we grant him a pass on this Gaffe?
the writer goes on to say why the Kibbutz has changed to the capitalism model:
“Since those days, the kibbutzim have been buffeted by heavy debts and soaring inflation in the 1980s, lost their ideological reference point with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and diversified their economic base from agriculture to industry, tourism and leisure. In many ways these developments are a microcosm of the forces that have shaped the wider Israeli economy, which has been pulled, often reluctantly, further from its highly centralized socialist roots toward a market-based economy. “
I bet Obama was to concerned about turing to Mecca to pay attention to the Modern Israeli Kibbutz.
“Funny thing is that the Kibbutz is not your Grandfather’s Kibbutz. Most have become a capitalistic for profit corporation.”
I actually did provide two links to articles discussing those trends, and wrote: “Recent years have seen a crisis for the kibbutzim, in which they have been forced to embrace some market reforms in order to survive. But Obama clearly seemed to be referring to the original, romanticized version of the collectivist kibbutz in which ‘we’re all in this together.’”
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