Posted on 07/02/2011 6:15:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
Obama’s top presidential campaign advisers are putting together a plan to go on the offensive against critics of his stance on Israel, I’m told, and are assembling a team of high profile surrogates who are well respected in the Jewish community to battle criticism in the media and ensure that it doesn’t go unanswered.
Obama’s supporters say the plan is in effect an acknowledgment that conservative attacks on Obama’s Israel stance have made defections among Jewish voters and donors a possibility they must take seriously. Obama’s advisers see a need to push back even harder on the attacks than they did in 2008, in part because Obama now has a record on the issue to defend — a record that even Obama’s supporters concede has not been adequately explained.
A group of well-known figures in the Jewish community has been in discussions with senior Obama adviser David Axelrod about how to respond to the criticism, which is expected to intensify as the campaign heats up. Among them: Alan Solow, the former head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; former Congressmen Mel Levine and Robert Wexler; and executive Penny Pritzker.
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I’m on a couple other websites that really don’t have much to do with politics. They specialize in other topics. What has amazed me is how many people have been upset at Obozo’s anti-Israeli tactics. I understand your comment about the GOP. I don’t disagree. What capitol hill seems to be missing is the grassroots support that Israel has and who Obozo has pissed off.
Obozo is wounded and he doesn’t know it. If he wants to rip the scab off the wound and continue dripping blood that’s fine by me.
What criticism? Our supine national media was fighting for spots on the Gaza flotilla.
i hope you are correct about pissed off people, especially his base, due to obozo’s anti-Israel/anti-semitic policies....i also agree with you about obozo not having a clue as to the understanding how his policies are turning people against him- he’s an arrogant, narcissist and only when it become politically expedient, or when someone tells him he needs to change for political expediency, will he (see obamacare waivers, the recent dropping by his racist DOJ of the investigations into most of the CIA agents as per waterboard)....
that said it bothers me to no effing end the way the GOP fights like little girls- obozo’s Israel policies have given the GOP an opportunity to drive a wedge between obozo and his Jewish constituency as well as some of the politicians in his party....rather than drive the wedge deeper with a sledgehammer as usual the GOP keeps the issue at arms length- most of them anyway...
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“Why do American Jews go for this crap?”
For the same reasons American Christians elected Obama in the first place, I suspect.
“Among them: Alan Solow, the former head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; former Congressmen Mel Levine and Robert Wexler; and executive Penny Pritzker.”
Puleez. The scary truth about what BHO’s trying to do to Israel is still the scary truth. And if plainly presented to the American people (many of whom aren’t aware of this) by even a couple of brave conservatives via media ads, then even Axelrod can’t put enough lipstick on that pig.
“Are there any US Jewish critics of Obama’s Israel stance?”
David Horowitz and Alan Dershowitz (believe it or not). Both have a public forum they need to take to prime time. Also, Lieberman’s not happy and, against criticism from his lib peers, is going with Glenn Beck 8/24 to participate in the Restoring Courage rally in Israel.
“I’m *just about* ready to side with the Libertarians, pull back on foreign intervention, let the Middle East burn, and let Israel fend for itself.”
Please don’t do it - Ron Paul-ites just don’t GET it - learn the Koran, Islam and what Muhammad commands his followers. Staying out of Middle Eastern affairs will NOT make the Islamists leave us alone - they intend to kill us, regardless of our presence there or lack thereof, because we are Infidels, non-Muslims. The Koran commands it, pure and simple. And they feel their time is now.
“If that’s what the American Jews want, let them have their way.”
All American Jews don’t want that. And Israel is our best and only ally in a dangerous part of the world that threatens us.
God knows, they deserve better.
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