Remember, when the New York Times says Jews, they mean Zionists!
Also see: Israel Decides AmeriKa's Presidents
"For Jewish Voters in New York, ‘Almost an Embarrassment of Riches’" by GLENN COLLINS
The notion that New York’s Jewish electorate can be easily characterized has long been debated. But the looming primary election on Tuesday is raising new speculation about how strongly Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama will appeal to Jewish Democrats.
“I don’t speak for the Jewish community,” said former Mayor Edward I. Koch, “and nobody speaks for the Jewish community. The Jews, individually, speak for themselves.”
Through AIPAC or whatever, right?
And though these days he himself is speaking up for Senator Clinton, Mr. Koch acknowledges that “lots of people — Jews and others — will be voting for Barack.”
The situation is “almost an embarrassment of riches for the Jewish voter,” said Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
“Perhaps there is a certain amount of distress that they have to choose between the two,” Rabbi Hirsch said, “because they are both enormously appealing to the Jewish community.”
Sid Davidoff, a lobbyist who has been involved in New York government and politics since the 1960s, said: “I think there is going to be a split between established older voters in the Jewish community, with whom Hillary will do well, and younger and more liberal Jews who see Obama as an agent of change.”
Although it might be expected that Senator Clinton will win the support of more voters, including Jewish voters, in the state she represents, even the slightest shift in Jewish support is a subject of interest.
For example, some local blogs claimed recently that City Councilman Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, an Orthodox Jew, had switched his support from Senator Clinton to Senator Obama, of Illinois. According to Eric Kuo, a spokesman for the councilman, Mr. Felder has not campaigned for either candidate but said, during a radio program on Tuesday night, that he would be voting for Senator Obama.
An important reason for such intense scrutiny is that “the Jewish community tends to vote, and make contributions, far in excess of its proportion of the population,” said Gary Rosenblatt, editor and publisher of Jewish Week, the nation’s largest Jewish weekly.
Yeah, if a Jew says it, then it is not anti-semitic!
But Gawd help you if you are something else!
Exit polls from the 2006 New York governor’s race showed 87 percent of the Jewish population voting Democratic and 12 percent voting Republican; in the 2004 election, exit polls indicated about 8 percent of the New York State vote was Jewish.
More exit polls!
Only time they didn't work was when Bush won reelection!
Huh!
Fully 83 percent of voting-age Jews were registered to vote — about 863,000 people — in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties, according to a report done in 2002 by the UJA-Federation of New York, a Jewish charity.
Not everyone is being swept away by the primary deadline, of course.
“Generally speaking, I am suspicious of all politicians on the Jewish issue,” said Marvin Kitman, a media critic for the Web site The Huffington Post. “With friends like them we don’t need enemies. The basic question we of the Hebrew persuasion tend to ask on all issues, whether it is the Giants in the Super Bowl, or Amy Winehouse, or global warming, is: Is it good or bad for the Jews?”
He means Zionist Jews, of course!
This guy is critical of politicians that kiss his ass?
I wonder what he thinks of the Zionists shitting in our politicians face!
On Monday, trying to make it clear that he was good for the Jews, Senator Obama answered questions from reporters at Jewish news outlets in a conference call. His aim was to counter concerns about his positions like his hope for a dialogue with Iran; he said that Iranian access to nuclear weapons would pose a threat to Israeli and United States interests. He added that he had long spoken against anti-Semitism and had always denounced the views of Louis Farrakhan, the black nationalist minister.
Translation: Obama had to perform fellatio upon Israel's throbbing Zionist member!
In the Senate, Mr. Obama backed Israel during its 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and in the conference call he said that Palestinians must restrain terrorist activity and violent anti-Israel actions before Israel made concessions.
Then OBAMA SUCKS!!!!
Both senators “are supportive of Israel, and few question that,” said Rabbi Steve Gutow, executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a nonprofit group that promotes consensus among Jewish groups and oversees the Israel Advocacy Initiative, which tries to communicate pro-Israel views.
The American Jewish Committee and other Jewish groups have criticized an e-mail campaign that made false claims that Senator Obama was, among other things, disguising a devotion to the Muslim religion. (He is a Christian who has attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago since the 1980s.)
“I think Obama has dealt effectively with those rumors that he is really a secret agent,” said Mr. Rosenblatt, of Jewish Week.
Yeah, it's o.k. to push Zionist propaganda!
But try talking 9/11 Truth or about the Lobby!!
And Rabbi Hirsch said that “most Jews are too sophisticated to fall for that garbage” and added, “It’s almost embarrassing that there would be an attempt to sway us in that manner.”
Yeah, you Jews are just so much smarter than the rest of us.
What an arrogant shitstink!
Mrs. Clinton was harshly criticized by some Jewish leaders and others over an episode in 1999, when her husband was president. She attended an event in Ramallah on the West Bank at which the wife of Yasir Arafat, Suha Arafat, accused Israel of poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gases. Mrs. Clinton listened with obvious discomfort but left politely, giving Mrs. Arafat a kiss.
And did she ever get hammered in the Zionist-controlled MSM for that!
I remember!
Oh, and the chemical weapons and poisoning wells is real!
Goes way back to the establishment of the shitty little shitstink state!
Also see: Israel and White Phosphorous
Mrs. Arafat’s remarks were denounced by Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, and in New York, Mrs. Clinton was criticized in newspaper editorials and by several groups for her silence and the kiss. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, then a possible Senate candidate, sharply attacked her. But last week, Mr. Koch said, “I don’t think the Suha issue has any resonance anymore.”
Both senators are still looking for endorsements and hoping that the ones they have will influence Tuesday’s vote.
Aside from Mr. Koch, prominent Jewish politicians supporting Mrs. Clinton include New York’s other senator, Charles E. Schumer; Senator Dianne Feinstein of California; and Representatives Gary L. Ackerman of Queens, Eliot L. Engel of the Bronx, Jerrold L. Nadler of Manhattan and Anthony D. Weiner of Queens and Brooklyn.
Among Senator Obama’s Jewish supporters are several members of Congress: Representatives Steven R. Rothman of New Jersey, Adam B. Schiff of California, Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Robert Wexler of Florida.
Sure are a lot of Jews in Congress, huh?
In the American Jewish Committee’s national Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, 70 percent of Jewish Democrats said they had a favorable opinion of Senator Clinton, compared with 45 percent for Senator Obama. The survey, a telephone poll conducted in November, involved 1,000 respondents who said they were Jewish; its margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
That's why Clinton will be the nominee!
That suggests that a victory for Senator Obama on Tuesday among Jewish voters in New York would be remarkable. “In the Chicago community, Jewish voters know Obama well and like him,” said Malcolm I. Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella organization. “But in New York, Jewish voters don’t know him well.”
Still, observers were unready last week to anoint Senator Clinton. “I think that the Jewish vote is supporting Hillary at this point,” Mr. Davidoff said. “But Obama has the buzz. And with the primary less than a week away, this is very volatile.”
Whatever.
Judging by what Obama said in the teleconference, what does it matter?
