Obama campaign launches ‘Rabbis for Obama’ (Gallup has it 68% to 25% among Jewish voters)

Yahoo! News ^ | 8/21/12 | Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket

[NormsRevenge]

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign unveiled "Rabbis for Obama"—a group of more than 600 rabbis from across the country—at a time when Republicans are hoping to erode the Democrat's wide lead among Jewish voters.

"Their ringing endorsement of President Obama speaks volumes about the president's deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel and his dedication to a policy agenda that represents the values of the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community," Ira Forman, the campaign's Jewish Outreach Director, said in a statement.

The announcement came with a state-by-state list of the rabbis backing Obama, who leads Romney 68 percent to 25 percent among Jewish voters according to a recent Gallup poll.

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[JewishRighter]

Anyone notice that one of the "Rabbis" from Wisconsin is Jonathan Arthur Biatch, Madison I kid you not.

[jersey117]

If they help get their boy in for another term, may all of their wealth be redistributed. May they be taxed into poverty. Maybe then they’ll finally get it.

[dandiegirl]

Why create this group “Rabis for BO” if he has them at 68%. Sounds unnecessary to me.

[bgill]

Those rabbis are signing the death sentence for Israel.

[tillacum]

Ira Forman must be using his brains as pillow stuffing to sit on. Holy Schmuck, obama is ready to sell Isreal to the muslims, and 600 rabbis are for it???

[Ancesthntr]

As a Jew, I completely disavow any connection to these morons, these schmucks, these self-hating Jews. To be for a man who is against Israel with every fiber of his being says to me that these “rabbis” (and a bunch are women, who simply cannot be rabbis) are no such thing (”rabbi” means “teacher”). They teach nothing, except maybe by negative example.

Their ideological forebearers were in the cattle cars, mine in the forest killing Nazis. We might possibly share some DNA, but that’s it. A pox on them.

[Hardraade]

Carter had a mad Rabbit.

Obama has 600 mad Rabbis.

[nuvista]

I looked at the website. Usual suspects in usual places (NY, Mass, Illinois, California). I’m in Florida and the numbers this time around are paltry. Just a handful. Notably, my Reform Judaism rabbi is not on the list this time around. Look, Jews could be 100% pro-Romney and it wouldn’t affect NY, Mass, Illinois, California. The real “Jewish” battleground states are Florida and Ohio (esp Florida). Methinks Bammy and Axelhitler sprinkled some perfume on a steaming pile of manure. They’re in real trouble.

[SunkenCiv]

Gallup sucks; and Reagan, who anyone would admit was more conservative than is Romney, got 39% vs Carter. It’s very unlikely that today’s Jewish voters are less liberal, so Romney probably has a shot at Reagan’s numbers in this category. It’s not too late to bitch about the Jews, though. :’) Thanks NormsRevenge.

[ansel12]

Why create this group “Rabis for BO” if he has them at 68%. Sounds unnecessary to me.

Because if the democrats are getting down to that number, then they are heading towards a record high percentage for Jews voting republican.

Thirty two percent is still a long way from the record 45% in 1916, but it is still in historically bad numbers, territory.

[justiceseeker93]

"Their ringing endorsement of President Obama speaks volumes about the president's deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel and his dedication to a policy agenda that represents the values of the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community," Ira Forman, the campaign's Jewish Outreach Director, said in a statement.

Spoken like the chief poobah of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), which Foreman is, or once was.

These "Rabbis for Obama" are just a bunch of 'Rat political hacks, who either have no awareness of the Obama Administration's anti-Israel, pro-Islamist policies and maneuvers, or choose to ignore them.

And speaking of "overwhelming majority," you can bet your last dollar that the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Israelis will be hoping and praying for an Obama defeat at the polls in November and that an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans abroad in Israel will vote for Mitt Romney for president!!!

[ansel12]

Gallup sucks; and Reagan, who anyone would admit was more conservative than is Romney, got 39% vs Carter. It’s very unlikely that today’s Jewish voters are less liberal, so Romney probably has a shot at Reagan’s numbers in this category.

It is true that they gave Reagan, 39% in 1980 against Carter, but by 1984, that had dropped to 31%, as the rest of the nation gave Reagan a landslide.

Obama could drop below 70%.

[doug from upland]

Well CRAP!!! I needed to clean my glasses. I thought the headline was Rabies for Obama and I got pretty excited.

[doug from upland]

Great minds think alike. I posted by rabies comment and then saw yours. Darn.

[rmlew]

From Marx to Saul Alinsky to a bunch of Rabbis, the numbers tells us Jews hate this country and the founders.
Marx never hated America He thought we would become socialist well before that backwards country to the east of Germany. Marx was a Jew for all of 3 years. His family became Lutheran, when he was a toddler. He became an atheist as an adult and a vicious anti-Semite, hating Christianity because it was Jewish in nature. Go read "On the Jewish Question".
Saul Alinsky was a communist and therefor a member of an anti-semitic cult.
Reform and Reconstructionist Rabbis generally are like Episcopalian and Quaker religious leaders. That said, I actually do know a retired Reform Rabbi who votes Republican (New York Republican anyway).

I used to back off to the notion of Reformed Jews (or whatever they call themselves) but given the percentage who voted for this Jew hating, muslim loving POS was well over 70% and now still in the high 60%. Sorry but something is seriously wrong.
What urban districts are being sampled? Are they calling on the Sabbath or a holiday.

PS. New York City Jews elected a state senator this year who positions on nationalism put him in the Tancredo school. But this was a district made up of Orthodox Jews and Jews who came after the fall of the USSR. The State Senate District (27) was also part of the 9th Congressional District, which elected a Republican last year; a pro-life, anti-gay marriage, reduce legal immigration Republican.

[Nachum]

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