Posted on 09/05/2013 12:35:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The debate over whether to bomb Syrian military facilities and weapons installations is creating some strange bedfellows. Among them: President Obama and Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.
On Tuesday, the Republican Jewish Coalition, which counts Adelson as a donor and a board member, told its members to urge Congress to authorize a strike in Syria. A spokesman for Adelson, a top backer of pro-Israel causes, told Bloomberg News that the gambling mogul supported the coalition's position—and thus Obama's—on Syria.
Obama and Adelson are far from ideological allies. Adelson reportedly spent upwards of $150 million, in disclosed and dark money, to defeat Obama in last year's presidential election. He and his wife, Miriam, almost single-handedly kept Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich in the running during the GOP primary season, giving $20.5 million to the pro-Gingrich super-PAC, Winning Our Future. Once Romney won the party's nomination, Adelson and his wife poured $30 million more into Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney super-PAC. On election night, Adelson attended the Romney campaign's party at the Westin hotel in Boston.
During the campaign, Adelson questioned Obama's commitment to protecting Israel. "Time and again, President Obama has signaled a lack of sympathy—or even outright hostility—toward Israel," Adelson wrote in an op-ed for JNS News Service. These days, Adelson seems to be feeling better about Obama's foreign policy stance.
At a presentation he once said he wanted his son to be an IDF sniper:
Hey, why not send him off to fight Assad, right?
Sounds abundantly logical.
Adelson will instead fight to the last corn-fed Iowa boy?
Hmmmm....I see.
Help me out here. What coalition is he talking about?
The coalition of Obama, Obama’s staff, Adelson, and mumble mumble mumble.
The Coalition of the Shilling.
I don’t see that this helps Israel at all. If I was Israel, I’d want everyone to stay out of Syria.
Support anything that might degrade an enemy of Israel. I can understand the thinking but I disagree in this instance because the possibility of the strike being counterproductive is somewhere north of 90%.
Hey Sheldon, don't look now, but your wussy-boy Hussein 0bama is standing BEHIND you.
Keep this in mind: the ragheads have chemical weapons and if they don't use them on each other, who will they use them on? - us!
bump
I never have and never will go to Vegas
This is exactly why it’s very disconcerting when these Big Republican Donors, who are particularly socially liberal and usually want big government in some cronyism-way, align themselves to the Presidential candidates. These people influence the candidates through the advisors they hire
I’ve never been too impressed with Adelson. He didn’t want Santorum’s “extremist” views on abortion in the white house and sell’s gay ‘marriage” in his wedding chapels.
True. Yesterday I made a call to JRC and cancelled my membership. I did stop payment on my donation check that I sent few days ago.
Well Sheldon yet again finds himself on the opposite side of the DUers. Strange world we live in...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023602944
Gingrich was his boy.
It wasn’t so much that Gingrich was his boy as it was that he said Gingrich could prevent Santorum from winning the primary over Romney who was really his boy.
BTW Santorum and Gingrich have both spoken out against intervention in Syria.
That explains where Newt got his funding.
Israel is important but not enough to start WWIII.
Most of my Jewish friends are opposed to bombing.
No, Gingrich was his boy.
I’m not convinced this works for Jews
Syria being split up and Assad and the rebels being occupied with each other is the best thing that could happen to Israel.
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