This time, it's personal
Roger Simon talks about President Obama's irrational rage at Israel. A week or so ago, I wrote a post describing Barack Obama as President Weirdo. Indeed here we have more evidence of this psychological disturbance, because this response to Israel is not in the realm of the rational. It is highly neurotic. Somewhere in the unconscious of Barack Obama are a stew of forces now directed (or cathected) on the Jewish state and its leader. Not a healthy state of affairs for anyone. (Well, maybe for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.)Sorry, but I don't see American Jewish voting patterns changing anytime soon. I'd be happy if we got to the point where the Democrats at least couldn't just take the Jewish vote for granted. But we're not there yet.
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As Michael Ledeen wrote in these pages, he is like an undergraduate at a bull session, sucking on a joint as he nods in agreement with the clichéd jargon of an “anti-imperialist” foreign exchange student. He hid this, to some extent, during his political campaign but now, under stress, the Tea Party parvenus more popular than he, he can no longer repress his true impulses. Out they have popped, ungoverned as dreams.
One wonders what his advisors, my landsmen Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, must think. My guess is they are very confused fellows with many sleepless nights. They deserve them. Whatever advice they may have given their President, it appears not to have been good. Or perhaps he has completely overrun their advice. Who knows? Whatever the case, his behavior has certainly not won the hearts and minds of the Israeli public. A gigantic 91% oppose Obama’s possible attempt to impose a deal on Israel, an unheard of number in opposition to an American president – and that from a populace that tends to the liberal, a country where one of the few, if only, socialist successes ever flourished, the kibbutz.
Of course, Obama’s actions are making every Israeli into a dreaded Likudnik. Why wouldn’t they? When a man acts on inchoate impulses tinged with rage, there’s no telling what he will do. If this goes on much longer, he may even change the voting patterns of the American Jewish public. Stranger things have happened. Just wait.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:35 PM
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My prediction is that in the overall voting numbers, you'll see something like 60 percent of jews still voting for Obama, at least here in Chicago, Obama's big Jewish donors are also active in AIPAC and other pro-Israel causes. They vouched for the guy and collected alot of money from their limosine liberal friends.
The buzz here is that spigot is off. Even if he may still get the majority of the "jewish" vote, he will not get the same kind of cover and cash from the locals here.
People who attended the AIPAC confab last month tell me the same thing.
Sorry, but I don't see American Jewish voting patterns changing anytime soon. I'd be happy if we got to the point where the Democrats at least couldn't just take the Jewish vote for granted. But we're not there yet.
You are right Carl, the political taste of many Jews in America leans toward the democratic party.
Having said that, tell me what the Republican party is doing for Jews other then public support, always in the same sentence of admonishing Obama? What did the last president do for the state of Israel other then in his final moments proclaim: "take good care of Olmert?" -->Where was the flood of conservative higherarchy prior to the Bush trip admonishing him to fulfill his promise to Jerusalem and the whole of the Jewish people? So instead our "good friend" returned home and as a last good will gesture to his "good friends" rather then signing the embassy act he renewed the lease on the PLO office in NY.
You don't live here Carl so you don't know how many Jewish Democrats who love Jerusalem that voted for Bush who now like myself changed our party affiliation from Republican to Independent.
There is more at stake for Republicans to make up for the abysmal record of Bush on Israel to people like myself then anything a democrat can tell us. After all Carl, he made such grand promises to Israel and Jews in America which no other living US President ever took so far.
Of course first the Republicans need to dump the deniers of the Shoah deniers from their list of speakers at their tea party events to prove to me, they want me back.
Tea Parties Host Open Anti-Semite, Nazi Defender, Israel Hater
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/20556/ohio-tea-parties-host-open-anti-semite-nazi-defender-israel-hater/
Next and most importantly they need to apologize not only for their absence of silence toward Israel while their man was in office but admit how Bush screwed Israel over, because he did. Most sadly, that will happen.
I will remain an independent.
In the mean time you can continue railing on liberal Jews never admitting that for the most part conservative republicans both Jews and non-Jews said nothing while the wolf in sheep's clothing took the suckers for one hell of a ride.
If you think voting Republican just because of Obama will change the tone and actions of those who seek US office you are deluding yourself.
obama is making some critical errors when it comes to israel, but calling him president weirdo is absurd.
look, alot of what israel is doing comes down to semantics.
how in the world do you call someone who is moving into a home in yerushalaim that is bought and paid for, a settler?
it is time for israel to call a spade, a spade.
adding apts onto a apt building is not building new settlements
allowing jews to move into an area filled with arab squatters is not stealing arab land
change the language and you change everything.
and carl...obama is not the problem
the problem is what is going on on us college campuses
obama is president for at most 8 years
those college kids who are being indoctrinated with lies and hate will be voting for another 50 years...and many will be running for office
it is time to go after the true enemies of jews and israel
chomsky, finklestein and all their lying, jew hating followers.
Nomatter,
You keep badgering me as if I never criticized Bush. I don't think you read this blog before January 2009 because that's just not so. I would suggest that you start by doing a Google search (the search function within the blog hasn't worked well in a long time) for ["Condi Clueless," "Israel Matzav"] and see how many results you get and what they say. I was plenty opposed to Annapolis and was quite critical of it.
I also said in February 2008 - before he even became the frontrunner - that Obama was bad for the Jews. Even Hillary Clinton would have been better. And - despite the fact that I did a post a couple of weeks ago that shows that she too is a latent anti-Semite - I continue to believe that she would have been preferable to Obama.
I could go on, but there are plenty of people who have been reading this blog for several years who can confirm what I've said.
Carl. There was no voice.
When I say no voice I mean huge protests or conservative hierarchy criticism same as some expect now from Jews. There was nothing in the biosphere possibly with the exception of yourself and a few others. Most assuredly the only prominent Jewish Republican who criticized Bush towards his betrayal of Israel was Caroline Glick and that was in the end. These are the people who were silent. Ditto, and other prominent Jewish organizations with the exception of ZOA who was as persona non-gratis then as they are now under the current narcissistic administration.
I am not badgering you. If it appears that way, I apologize. I like many others are frustrated because we find we have no party of truth when it comes to friends.
I pray in coming generations Jews of liberal bent question themselves for why they vote democrat. Having said that since the early 1900's in America Jews still remain betrayed by both political parties.
Both parties. If that alone is not cause for what we expect from our elected leaders we are all fools.
even Ed Koch got it
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