Is it because he's black?
In Klein and Chesnoff's second piece, they look at the early breakdown of relations between President Obama and the Jewish community. The current Jewish problem with Obama can be traced back to his first full day on the job. On January 21, 2009, he summoned his national security team to the Oval Office and laid out a tough new policy toward Israel. According to our sources, Obama said that in order to make good on his campaign promise to extricate 200,000 American troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. had to create a grand coalition of "moderate" Muslim states and Israel to isolate Iran, which has made no secret of its ambition to become the nuclear hegemon in the Middle East.Klein and Chesnoff conclude by saying that the majority of the Jewish community would not criticize America's first black President. But was that the problem?
The only way to accomplish that goal, the president stated, was to eliminate the poisonous effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which provides Iran with an excuse to stir up trouble. Thus it was "a vital national interest of the United States" to stop Israel from building settlements in the occupied West Bank and housing in East Jerusalem, and force the Jewish state to resolve the Palestinian problem.
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"I agree with your goal to bring peace to the Middle East," the ADL's Abe Foxman told the president. "But the perception is that you're beating up only on Israel, and not on the Arabs. If you want Israel to take risks for peace, the best way is to make Israel feel that its staunch friend America is behind it."
"You are absolutely wrong," the president replied. "For the past eight years [under the Bush administration], Israel had a friend in the United States and it didn't make peace."
"I came away from the meeting convinced that Obama has introduced a new and dangerous strategy and that it's revealing itself in steps," Foxman told Edward Klein. "Unlike other administrations, this one is applying linkage in the Middle East. It's saying that if you resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the messiah will come and the lions will lie down with the lambs. All the president's advisers on the Middle East, starting with George Mitchell, believe in linkage, and they're telling the president you have to prove to the Arab Muslim world that you are different than previous presidents and you can separate yourself from Israel, distance yourself from the settlements issue. After all, settlements are something that American Jews don't like anyway, so it's a win-win proposition."
While I've always had a sense that there are a lot of liberal American Jews who want to vote for blacks just so that they could tell their friends "I voted for a black," especially after the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991, I would give Jews credit for being a bit more discriminating than to vote for someone because they are black. A black liberal, yes, but the 'liberal' part - or is it the Democrat part? - is far more important.
When I was visiting Dad last November (Dad lives in an overwhelmingly Jewish-populated assisted living facility in Boston), Scott Brown was trying to get his campaign going against Martha Coakley, and I asked people there for whom they were voting. "The Democrat." (Many of them could not even remember her name!). "Why are you voting for her," I would ask, "Do you know what she stands for?" Silence would greet those questions. No one had a clue. None of these people - from a generation where policies on Israel made a much bigger difference than they do to the younger generation - had a clue that Martha Coakley could and did have positions that were anathema to these people for whom Israel had been a primary concern for most of their lives. And nothing I said could change their minds. She was "the Democrat" and they were going to vote for her. Why?
I'll continue to explore that question in later posts. But it's not because Obama's black that Jews hesitated to abandon him. And it's not because Obama's black that so many of them will stay home in November rather than voting Republican.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:02 AM
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Just wanted to add - If you read the comments at the Huffpo piece you quoted, your stomach will turn. And many of those commenters are Jews. It explains your mystery of why the Jews won' vote Republican. They are brainwashed and cannot bear to think of themselves other than Liberal - the new religion.
Of course itsbecause he calls himself "black ".there is no group more susceptible to the race card than Jewish liberals. They invented the "who's the real victim "excuse for the depravity and criminality so prevalent (and sustained by liberal policies ) in the black community. A black person who adheres to libtard orthodoxy can do no wrong.
What is sad is that Obama knows this and plays the card. The truth is he is not black, he's BIRACIAL. As a lawyer I am sure that you are aware that Party's Law makes him "white ".in. fact he has no slave blood nor relation to American blacks, but chose to morphology into a black man(with a fake acquired accent) so he could benefit from affirmative action and get the liberal vote.
You only have to look at the recent poll of whites and blacks on obama to know who the racists are.
This is from another blog I read every day. ----- What is your definition of racism?
Is racism when someone's behavior towards another person is predicated specifically on that other person's race? I would think most people would see it that way.
Ok, now let's look at the following excerpt from a blog by Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times and try to find whether there is racism and, if so, where it lies:
Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much
October 4, 2010 | 2:54 am
The good news for President Obama is his popular support among blacks is holding steady at 91%.
The bad news is no other group of potential voters likes him that much.
A new Gallup Poll this morning finds his approval rating for September was 45%, almost the same as August's 44%. Obama's not exceeded the crucial 50% level in a single month so far this year.
Democrats (79%) and liberals (75%) still like Obama a lot.
But after that, his approval percentage goes to the deep south. Support among even young people is down: 57%. Hispanics: 55%. Moderates: 54%. Unmarrieds: 53%. Easterners: 52%. Women: 47%. Midwesterners and Westerners: 45%.
Men: 43%. Southerners: 41%. Independents: 40%. Marrieds: 39%. Seniors: 38%. Whites: 36%. Conservatives: 23%.
Amazingly, among Republicans Obama still manages to hold the support of 12%.
Literally every group shown has dropped in its support of Barack Obama -- except one. Black people remain over 90% - almost as monolithically solid a bloc now as it was on election day 2008.
It is possible, of course, that the reason Black support has remained so high is because President Obama has done an excellent job in coming through for Black people. But that is not so, or anywhere near it.
Excerpted from an open letter to Barack Obama from Syracuse U. Professor, Dr. Boyce Watkins:
As of last month, black unemployment rose to an astonishing 16.3 percent. This was .7 percent higher than the previous month, with the increase being 700 percent higher than the rise in unemployment for white Americans. Additionally, black teen unemployment is now over 45 percent, compared to just 23 percent for white teens.
To this point, your administration has remained disturbingly silent on the issue of black unemployment. The silence is deafening, but the economic hardship is loud and clear. I am concerned that many of your key economic advisors are unable or unwilling to process and empathize with the depths of black economic misery in America. Many of them are not trained in issues that relate to economic inequality and seem to have little or no desire to make this issue a priority for the administration. In fact, I have yet to hear the words "black man" or "black woman" come out of your mouth in the year 2010.
Black support of Barack Obama remains over 90% despite these ugly results,
-Does this mean that Blacks, as a group, are racist?
-Does it mean that President Obama's performance is irrelevant to Black people because he shares their skin color?
-Is this level of loyalty as high for other races and religions as it is for Blacks?
-Can collective racism be ascribed to any group, Black, White or otherwise?
I'm not providing any conclusions here. I'm posting this information and asking these questions so you can draw your own.
You decide.
posted by Ken Berwitz @ partisan.blogs.hopelesslypartisan.com
I meant Partus Law. My Droid often changes what I type t5o what it thinks I mean.
p.s
when you refer to a white raised biracial( who has no slave blood) as "black" you cede to him the use of the race card
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