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Most Jews ever set to enter Congress
Jerusalem Post ^
| Hilary Leila Krieger
Posted on 01/05/2007 2:34:10 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
even such leading conservatives as Bill KristolBill Kristol is a conservative? Who'd have known? All this time I was fooled into believing he was a McCainiac loving moderate.
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posted on
01/05/2007 7:29:20 PM PST
by
metalurgist
(Believe in my God or I will kill you! The cry of all religious extremists.)
To: shrinkermd
For the same reason that Asians voted overwhelmingly Democrat in 2006: it's not not that they don't like conservatives, it's that they hate jocks and rednecks.
Bush and a lot of the Southern and Western Republicans put on this gleefully anti-intellectual attitude that reminds a lot of assimilated Asian and Jewish voters of every last big jock they despised, and swore to beat in the long run, when they were kids. And for the Asians who immigrated adults, Bush is a figure who is beyond laughable; they think it's contemptible, really, that Americans would allow themselves to be governed by one whom they see as so mentally sub-par.
Asian and Jewish conservatives -- and there are lots -- take absolutely endless guff about Bush and the crew. Imagine being the biggest Yankees fan in Boston -- like that.
But let us have a Giuliani or a Romney on the ballot, and things might change...
To: KantianBurke
Probably the most humourless post of the decade. We all thank you too much!
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posted on
01/05/2007 7:49:22 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: OldFriend
Plus, Jews - who voted overwhelmingly Democrat in the November election (87 percent, according to exit polls) Please help me understand this. The Democrats consistently undermine Israel and treat the Arab terrorists and Arab terrorists states as legitimate entities. What is wrong with the Jews in this country? A Jew voting for the Democrats is a death wish. I do not understand what goes on in the body politic of the Jewish faith.
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posted on
01/05/2007 7:52:05 PM PST
by
cpdiii
(Oil Field Trash and proud of it, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast)
To: RKV
Irrational hatred of members of another religion. I've spent time with hunderds of Jews of all ages, spanning more than a decade and not once did I ever witness or feel hated from a single one of them. And my Luthernism was certainly known to many of them. And I look like your quiessential original nazis. And cannot say likewise for mny other classifications of people. I've definately felt by some and witnessed against others.
Tradition ia a hard thing to break and older folks are more set in their ways. And the argument about public display of other religion is a valid one from my experience. It may well be a cultural taboo thing that helps hold many to the democrat party like other single issue voters. Christians want it, Jews don't.
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posted on
01/05/2007 7:52:18 PM PST
by
Diplomat
To: rmlew; Yehuda
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posted on
01/05/2007 8:18:00 PM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: streetpreacher
Correction: I think you meant to say:
"More LIBERAL NON_OBSERVANT Jews elected to Congress; not good news for Israel."
Let's call a spade a spade. A liberal non-practicing Jew is about as Jewish as Ted Kennedy is Catholic.....
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posted on
01/06/2007 1:02:00 AM PST
by
Al Simmons
(When you are going through hell, keep going! - Winston S. Churchill)
To: PeterFinn
"Most muslims, Buddhists, and Ba'hai ever set to enter Congress, too"
I'm lazy to Google tonight. Can someone explain to me WTF is a 'Ba'hai'?
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posted on
01/06/2007 1:03:41 AM PST
by
Al Simmons
(When you are going through hell, keep going! - Winston S. Churchill)
To: cpdiii
It's the social issues that drive the jewish communities to vote dem. They have this elite mentality that says that the underprivileged need their protection.
Too often republicans on the right come across as mean spirited and uncaring about the plight of the least among us.
In a way that concern is justified but there is a bigger issue now and the jewish community hasn't arrived at the realization that they are in grave danger along with the rest of us.
Did you ever listen to the right snidely referring to the President's efforts to force education reform onto the NEA, or the effort to get RX drugs to seniors to better their quality of life. It's cheaper than hospitalization and devestating disability, but to most on the right, it's not their responsibility to care about the poor kids stuck in lousy schools, after all their kids are in good schools and/or private schools.
In the end, society is served by making an effort towards better education and better quality of life for elders.
Too many remember well James Baker's comment to Reagan....eff the jews, they don't vote for us anyway.
Sadly, the left is far far far more anti semitic than the right ever was.
Just a bit of my personal observations and conversations with my fellow jews.
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posted on
01/06/2007 1:04:16 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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posted on
01/06/2007 1:04:37 AM PST
by
devolve
( ....shop_invest_and_hire_wisely)
To: Alter Kaker
One issue is paramount to most jewish families. EDUCATION
When you have endless excoriating of the President from the right that he had no business funding education, it's not the government's job.
When you have Larry Kudlow, a former jew, snidely remarking that about all that money Bush wasted on education........when you have endless bashing from the right wing talk show hosts about the waste of money on education.....
Of course, their chldren are in private schools so the education of the poorest is of no concern.
It's a cultural thing, IMO.
The President didn't get vouchers but he got a lot out of the NEA who fought and screamed against the NCLB program.
Just one thing I hear from other jewish families.....for what it's worth.
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posted on
01/06/2007 1:14:39 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
To: metalurgist
Jews are overrepresented in Congress relative to their percentage of the population. The American Jewish Committee recently estimated the Jewish population of the U.S. at 6.4 million, or 2.1% of the total. Yet 43 Congressional representatives, or 8.0% of the 535 Senators and Representatives, claim Judaism as their religion. However, the old-line Protestant denominations, Presbyterian and Episcopalian, also have a disproportionately high percentage of representatives in Congress. Some 2.3 million, only 0.8% of Americans are affiliated with the Episcopal Church, USA, yet 6.9% of all congressmen claim membership therein. About 3 million Americans, or 1%, belong to one of several Presbyterian denominations (about 2.4 million in the liberal PCUSA, the remainder in conservative, Bible-believing denominations like the PCA). Some 8.2% of the 110th Congress are Presbyterian adherents.
All three groups are disproportionately represented in the upper middle and upper income groups. In comparison, larger denominations or religions with a wider base of adherents come closer to parity between representation and proportion of the population. Catholics represent about 23% of the U.S. population, and some 29% of the Congress report themselves as being Catholics. Members of Baptist congregations are about 15.7% of all Americans, but Baptists represent 12.7% of Congressional representatives. Atheists, agnostics, and other nonbelievers are the most underrepresented, as 15% of all U.S. citizens adhere to no religion or are atheist/agnostic, yet only 1.1% of the Congress claims no religious affiliation.
American governmental offices tend to be filled with people who have the financial wherewithal to run for public office, as has been the case since the founding of the Republic. Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, et. al., were hardly dirt farmers or urban workers. Jewish overrepresentation in Congress and other public offices is a result of their community's success in other fields of endeavor.
To: streetpreacher
Yes, you are so correct.
Over the last 1000 years Jews have been their own worst enemy.
What I do not understand is why many Jews chose to ally themselves with those who want to wipe them from the face of the earth.
This alliance with the Cut and Run Democrats is simply mind fogging.
Maybe the Jews do agree with the Democrats on feel good issues.
However, the real issues of who will save them from annihilation and suffering belong to the Republicans.
I suppose while being slaughtered by the Muslims the Jews can take solace that they voted for Cut and Run Democrats who supported their feel good priorities.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:15:34 AM PST
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia now a certified socialist state reporting to Mexico City for further instructions)
To: OldFriend
Very interesting post(s). Thank you for your insight.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:17:29 AM PST
by
Wormwood
(Goldwater Republican.)
To: Cacique
as a newbie, what do "ping" and "bump" mean?????????
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:28:02 AM PST
by
LC HOGHEAD
( Obama is engaged in a Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam)
To: Brad Cloven
Gonna happen, just a matter of time.It's already happened.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:28:25 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
("Common sense is not so common." Voltaire, 1764)
To: Omega Man II
Pretty steep drop... Ronald Reagan won nearly a majority of the Jewish vote in 1984.Yet the greatest friend Israel ever had in the U.S. presidency is none other than George W. Bush. Go figure.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:30:12 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
("Common sense is not so common." Voltaire, 1764)
To: shrinkermd
He called Evangelicals "great cheerleaders" whose backing of Israel never resulted in specific action or was really tested. "They might love Israel, but they hate gays more than they love Israel."
What difference would their stand on moral issues have to do with their support of Israel?
I would say their support of the war against radical Islam would be proving their support of Israel. They support Israel much more than those liberal democrat Jews who seem to hate Israel, by the way they team up with the left.
To: LC HOGHEAD
as a newbie, what do "ping" and "bump" mean?????????A ping is a "reply" to someone who might be interested. It makes the thread show up in the "new messages to you" at top left. A bump is a reply to keep a thread high in the recently-replied list, so it shows up prominently on the main page. Sometimes labeled bump to the top, abbreviated BTTT. It's a kind of tip of the cap -- a way of saying I have nothing to add, but this is a good message and folks should see it.
To: shrinkermd
I think the following paragraph is the key reason the vote goes as it goes...I think you're wrong as to which is the key paragraph in Forman's piece. Here is the key paragraph, not because of what it says as a stand-alone pull-quote, but because of what it introduces in the balance of the article:
"Other issues matter to Jews as well. However, on these issues the two political parties stand diametrically opposed. These other issues are why Jews will vote in landslide proportions for Democrats this fall."
If this article is to be believed as to why American Jewish people vote they way they do (and I have no reason to believe otherwise), then most American Jewish people are Socialists. Plain and simple.
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posted on
01/06/2007 9:39:21 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
("Common sense is not so common." Voltaire, 1764)
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