“Believe it or not, America’s policies towards Israel and her enemies are what drive their choices.”
Sorry, I don’t buy it. Obama’s position is clearly a denigration of American relations with Israel to the extent that Israel could cease to exist within the coming four years; nevertheless, Jews voted for him in huge numbers.
As to why Catholics (who ARE Christians, by the way) and Protestants voted for him, that’s another story for another day.
Obama's position was not "clearly" and widely known BEFORE the election. Who, exactly, hammered this point home? Not the media. Not the GOP. Who revealed Obama's promises about Israel for the lies they were? None of the above.
Where among the Jewish groups were the alarms being sounded BEFORE the election? Who was providing the specific evidence to Jewish groups, like AIPAC, that Obama would throw Israel under the bus AFTER the election?
Even the nontraditional media, like WND, shied away from pointing the finger at Obama before May of last year. It's only now, after his first 100 days, that the truth of Obama's "final solution" is coming to light. But as a prior poster had indicated, "McCain and the GOP did nothing to DOCUMENT and EXPOSE Obama's true intentions and his active anti-Israel associations." Heck, even FOXNEWS failed to make the security of Israel a national issue in the Presidential campaign, let alone a Jewish one.
Jewish groups were sold a "better batch of goods" by Obama and the 'Rats than by McCain and the Dumbos. Obama lied through his teeth, and no one made any concerted effort to strip them bare with a history of documented facts about ZERO's anti-Jewish/Anti-Israel associates and behaviors.
ALL of the political, fact-checking entities were liberal shills for Obama. There were no Conservative fact-checking sites to counter them. Obama's Campaign held full sway with their "Fight the Smears" website -- which was never called onto the carpet for all of its lies and distortions. There should have been been a Jewish counterpart to it, like "Fight the Shmucks," to put Conservatives and Pubs on the offensive.
So, what group or individual was able to get the attention of Jews and to debunk Obama's promises to them about Israel? (the sound you hear are crickets).
Obama would say, "America will not change her strong relationship with Israel. Israel will always be known as the Jewish state. Jerusalem will be the undivided capital of Israel."
What did McCain say in response? "Me, too!"
The GOP thinks that all they needed to do was to raise doubts about Obama as a leader and doubts about his ability to follow through on specific promises, and that alone should have been enough to sway Jewish opinion away from Obama. They could not have been more wrong if they tried.
None of the politicians this year had the cajones to talk the talk: to say why any and every "land for peace" deal is a sham; why the US will not support the creation of another terrorist Palestinian mini-state, nor will it condone having it ripped from Israel's own land and placed on its border; why the creation of another Hamasistan is also a threat to America, and not just Israel, and finally, why the Arab states, along with the UN, are solely responsible for creating the "Palestinian problem" 60 years ago and perpetuating it today, and that they are the only ones who can solve it and should solve it -- by resettling them in the same countries that expelled 1 million Jews from their homes after 1947.
Yeah, that would p*ss off a lot of Lefties and Muslim-Americans, but it's the truth and there is no substitute for it.
Seriously, how many people knew what would be the full extent of Obama's Socialistic blitzkreig on America and Israel BEFORE the election? The answer is "Not many at all." Of these few, how many devoted their time to convincing Jewish voters of it? The answer is, "Was there one?"