Your particular situation is why I said “for the most” part at least two or three times in my comment. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough of the “YOUs” in this country. Take a look at this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2742659/posts
My guess is that still a supermajority of Jews in this country will go through some self-hating gymnastics to explaining why Obama and the State Depart doing this is a good thing....it is just mind boggling.
What I was trying to point out in my post though was that there are other decedents of Holocaust survivors who are directly affected and still lean liberal. I think it was my roundabout way of saying that you can’t assume how people are going to vote based on how others perceive their life experiences. I was also trying to show that just because a Jewish person votes for a democrat doesn’t necessarily make them self-hating. You are correct though some liberal lunatics will say that Obama is doing the right thing, but that is because they are liberal and stupid not because they are Jewish (although some will be Jewish).
I have seen that article. It’s incredibly unfortunate that our president is so bad at world politics. I said it in an earlier post, but basically I’m not that worried because everything Obama does is symbolic so I don’t think any real harm will come of this. I don’t think people who aren’t Anti-Semitic will become Anti-Semitic because of this. I also think Israel can take care of itself until we switch administrations.
My personal feeling as an American Jew is that my first priority at the polling booth has to be to this country. If Israel was my first priority, I would feel obligated to move there.