Posted on 09/03/2008 10:33:33 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Barack Obama has struggled for 18 months to lock down the support of a traditionally Democratic group, Jewish voters.
In the past week, John McCain may have helped Obama with his Jewish problem by choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
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But Democrats hope Palin's social conservatism, her paper-thin record on Israel, and - perhaps most importantly - her cultural roots in evangelical Christianity may be a major turnoff to Jewish voters, just as Republicans have tried to reach women disappointed that Obama didn't choose Hillary Clinton,
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There is almost always an inverse proportion between a candidate's popularity among conservative Christians and secular Jews - said Jeff Ballabon, a Republican lobbyist long active in Jewish politics who supports McCain.
An illustration of that gap came just two weeks ago, when Palin's church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus.
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Palin was in church that day, Kroon (her pastor) said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner's views to her.
The executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Ira Forman, cited the "cultural distance" between Palin and almost all American Jews."
"She's totally out of step with the American Jewish community," he said. "She is against reproductive freedom - even against abortion in the case of rape and incest. She has said that climate change is not man-made. She has said that she would favor teaching creationism in the schools. These are all way, way, way outside the mainstream."
Huffington Post on Tuesday posted portions of Palin speaking at her former church, a politically conservative Assemblies of God congregation, in which she suggested that an Alaska pipeline plan reflects God's will.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Jewish voters are NOT wary of Palin.
This has been debunked over and over again on FreeRepublic.com.
Liberals, in general ARE fearful of any conservative who is/appears to be popular.
Period.
Oh yeah, this is rich. I want to see this debate open up.
“Coming HOME... to ROOST!” :-D
My folks, Jewish, as am I of course, stated the other night they would vote for OZero because they felt bad that McCain would be beating him so badly. Urk! How’s that for Jewish + white guilt? How Jews could vote for a half-Arab antisemite is just beyond me, but the Democrat lever-pull among Jews is only about 2 neurons short of genetic.
My Dad: Age 92, early stages Alzheimer’s) “McCain has a history of associating with some very unsavory characters”
Me: Can you name any of them?
Dad: No, I can’t. Nobody knows the names of the people behind John McCain.
Me: So, these people, they’re a secret?
Dad: That’s right, if anyone knew their names, they wouldn’t be secret any more.
Me: So, McCain is a bad guy according to the Zarflindas theory?
Dad: What’s the Zarflindas theory?
Me: I don’t know, if the theory were known, it wouldn’t work any more.
Dad: OK.
Notice how probing they have been on Obama’s church.
Whatever else you hear, is liberal Jewish Democrats drinking koolaid.
I'm so hyper after Sarah's speech, I can't sleep!
this insidious attack on true believer Christians is the devil works....and I’m not embellishing
and some folks are naive pawns
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shame, ingrates
They’ve done more than give Obama a pass...they act like it never happened or doesn’t matter.
IF someone had countered Maddow’s statements with the Jerimiah Wright story, everybody on the panel would just shrug their shoulders and say, “Eh, who cares?”
All because Obama is their Messiah.
Ping for you!
Comment:
It looks as though the smug elitists DNC Plantation Jews will never learn.
These same kinds of clowns trusted another narcissistic leader and it got 6 million of them gassed.
For all you Jews who hate evangelical Christians I want you to listen real close.
Christians are your protectors, Jesus was a Jew.
The Black Liberation Theologists, Muslims and atheists hate your guts.
I understand that Sarah belongs to the Lutheran Church,not your everyday Jew haters.
They mock and ridicule religious Jews also. Read Michael Chabon’s ridiculous novel about Jews in Alaska, have vomit buckets ready.
"You support Israel for the wrong reasons" is occasionally heard. Yeah, whatever - support is support. Both Christians and Jews need to be reminded that Christianity is a Jewish sect. We both should take the time to read When Christians Were Jews (That Is, Now) - Recovering the Lost Jewishness of Christianity with the Gospel of Mark by Wayne-Daniel Berard.
In a media with such a long rich history, that is a MAJOR accomplishment. This article is ultra, completely mega stupid. We will have to come up with a whole new classification of stupid to adequately address Ben Smith's level of idiocy. World Record Stupid! Rock hard dehydrated stupid! Lifetime Achievement Stupid! So stupid it MUST be a lost fragment of the primordial soup from with all imbeciles since have sprung. It sets a whole new standard by which stupidity will be judged from now on!
Quick, call the Nobel Committee. We have to establish a whole new Nobel Prize for World Record Stupidity just so Ben Smith can be award it!!! Ben Smith, I applaud your courage! Most people attempt to hide their moronic natures but not YOU. NO, you FLAUNT your morondom. You proudly cruise the Internet squealing “I AM THE WORLDS LARGEST IDIOT”. I must say I have NEVER seen anyone so willing to make peace with a painful personal truth as Ben Smith has embraced his imbecility.
Well done brave soul!
Obama’s church of 20 years published a “Letter to Oprah” in the church bulletin claiming Israel and South Africa teamed up to develop an “ethnic bomb” to kill blacks and Arabs.
Actually, Sara Palin is a member of the Assemblies of God, the same church as John Ashcroft. My mom’s family is AG and the Assembly national headquarters is here.
These people love Israel and the Jewish people. For that, they are mocked by the media.
Obviously Sarah is out of touch with Jewish beliefs because abortion is advocated in the old testament...
Huffington trash... Amazing how much the MSM leans on that rag and Salon. Has anyone ever seen the MSM lean on Newsmax as much?! Bueller? Bueller?
Well, you see there is something about Christianity that says that Judgment (and general 'bad stuff') is going to happen to anyone who is not IN (following/believing) Christ Jesus. In fact, Christians know that when they take their eyes off of Christ (like the Hebrews took their eyes off the brazen serpent when they were being bitten by firey snakes) - bad stuff happens to them also...
That is just the way it is...
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house..." ... And if not, well then there is Mark 16:16b "...but he that believeth not shall be damned".
The message is as it has always been:
"Isaiah 55:6-7 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon".
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