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Obama campaign to go on the offensive against conservative critics of Israel stance
Washington Post ^ | July 1, 2011 | Greg Sargent

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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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; usjews4obama
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1 posted on 07/02/2011 6:15:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Non of whom are Orthodox Jews, I believe.


2 posted on 07/02/2011 6:19:00 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Kaslin

This could be good. Not only has Obama stuck his foot in his mouth, now he’s going to try to swallow.


3 posted on 07/02/2011 6:20:40 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Kaslin

4 posted on 07/02/2011 6:21:13 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Kaslin

Just the fact they have to devise a strategy tells american everything they need to know about Obama.


5 posted on 07/02/2011 6:22:02 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Save the planet, destroy the MSM)
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To: Kaslin

Fine by me.

Keep picking loser positions and give it your best.

Hell, frame it and go all out.


6 posted on 07/02/2011 6:23:01 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Kaslin
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...

...and they say it's hard to find a Jewish whore...

7 posted on 07/02/2011 6:23:34 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Kaslin
The Obama Doctrine has Israel surrounded by Jew hating Islamists.The nations already out to slaughter Jews like Syria and Iran get a pass when they murder protesters.
Not so the Israel tolerant Mubarak and Gadafy—they must be deposed and replaced with Hamas,Hizbollah and their terrorist buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Gonna take some hard core liars to convince any thinking Jew that Obama isn't an antisemitic Islamophile.
8 posted on 07/02/2011 6:24:02 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Sans Sarah-Bachmann's The One.")
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The lying sack of sheet who claimed he was a Uniiter, now intends to commence his scorched earth campaign so he can have 4 more years?


9 posted on 07/02/2011 6:25:27 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Kaslin

Obama campaign to go on the offensive against conservative critics of Israel stance.

LMAO!

Are there any US Jewish critics of Obama’s Israel stance?


10 posted on 07/02/2011 6:29:03 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Biden- No representation for Gopers, Obama-Gopers must get in the back of the bus.)
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To: SandRat

Correct


11 posted on 07/02/2011 6:29:07 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: R0CK3T

And he stands a better than even chance of getting 4 more years, in my oppinion.

Plus, without 67 true conservatives in the senate it won’t matter anyway.


12 posted on 07/02/2011 6:29:34 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: NoLibZone
Are there any US Jewish critics of Obama’s Israel stance?

ME!


13 posted on 07/02/2011 6:31:07 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Terry Mross

Well by his plan the gloves are off, so we need to have to attack every stupid thing he’s done.


14 posted on 07/02/2011 6:32:27 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Terry Mross

Well by his plan the gloves are off, so we need to have to attack every stupid thing he’s done.


15 posted on 07/02/2011 6:32:30 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: NativeNewYorker

Why do American Jews go for this crap?


16 posted on 07/02/2011 6:33:39 PM PDT by biff (WAS)
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to battle criticism in the media

By 'media', they must mean Fox News and talk radio. The rest of the media are a bunch of boot-lickers who aren't even allowed to criticize Obama.

17 posted on 07/02/2011 6:34:24 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: SandRat

BUMP


18 posted on 07/02/2011 6:34:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Kaslin

“I can’t deny that people express to me concerns about the president’s policies,” Solow said. “But when I run through the record with them, they are by and large convinced that the president’s policies are correct.”

The effort to make this point, I’m told, will also be proactive, with surrogates publishing op ed pieces that represent the White House’s point of view. And it will include a renewed effort to highlight other aspects of Obama’s record that have gone under-discussed, like increased military cooperation between Israel and the United States.”

More propaganda facilitated by a cooperative media.


19 posted on 07/02/2011 6:42:40 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Kaslin
"Raise your hands if you love obama!"


20 posted on 07/02/2011 6:45:24 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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