Posted on 05/22/2013 7:35:08 AM PDT by Nachum
At a Jewish American Heritage Month reception last night in Washington, D.C., Vice President Joe Biden talked about Jews, power, and influence.
The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that its fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage, Biden said, according to the pool report. The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you.
You make up 11 percent of the seats in the United States Congress. You make up one-third of all Nobel laureates, he said. So many notions that are embraced by this nation that particularly emanate from over 5000 years of Jewish history, tradition and culture: independence, individualism, fairness, decency, justice, charity. These are all as you say, as I learned early on as a Catholic being educated by my friends, this tzedakah.
The embrace of immigration is part of that, as is the involvement of Jews in social justice movements.
You cant talk about the civil rights movement in this country without talking about Jewish freedom riders and Jack Greenberg, he said, telling a story about seeing a group of Jewish activists at a segregated movie theater in Delaware. You cant talk about the womens movement without talking about Betty Friedan or American advances in science and technology without mentioning Einstein and Carl Sagan, or music and Gershwin, Bob Dylan and so, so, so many other people.
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As an Israeli, I would so love to be an anonymous little Mediterranian country that no one ever thought about and was never in the news because it was so fricking boring and nothing ever happened there.
Known for pisatichios, olives, and fine electronics.
Like a warm Switzerland or Idaho.
My Jewish Idaho.
It’s my patriotic deam.
Nah, we shave off 8% or so this time. I think it was 77 or 78%.
Still overwhelming Democrat, but the trend is one-direction. Four more elections and this will be a Republican group.
Well I hope you're right and it certainly would be a welcome change but I'm not holding my breath. I'm afraid that cultural liberalism and an unspoken dislike of evangelicals will always carry the day here
I think you’ll be surprised.
I also am not familiar with an “unspoken” dislike of evangelicals, although I do admit I’ve recurringly had run-ins with VERY persistent evangelicals who would not let me go about my business (e.g., shopping at a supermarket being the most recent example). I leave people alone, and would like the same courtesy.
I also was pretty darn “outspoken” after the 20th interruption. ;-)
The fix is in. There won’t be four more elections.
Well, there’s nothing “unspoken” about it on the part of many of the Jewish persuasion.
But perhaps some of them have it coming. Christ commanded his followers to preach to all nations (including the Jews). He did not command them to harass them about it.
He did not command forced conversions. In fact He said, “Matthew 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.”
We’re all entitled to go to Hell in our own way. That’s what freedom is about. We’re all entitled to try to persuade. That’s what freedom is about. We’re all entitled to tell someone to take a hike. That, also, is what freedom is about.
Any mention of seagulls?
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Joe has a number of new fans at Stormfront, links at some of the articles. Within a week we'll be reading about this in the Arab press, and not in the positive tone Joe the fool meant.
If clown VP of the Obama Regime wants to talk about “outsize influence” he should talk about homosexuals. How one to three percent of the population manages influence all of media and is weaseling its way into so many other areas, I’ll never know.
Why did they let Crazy Joe out of the attic?
Yes, that’s the first thing I thought of when I heard this crap.
Thanks, Joe. Wonder how many people will die because of this speach.
"Iceberg...Goldberg....Greenberg......what's the difference?"
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