DNC: 'Eric Cantor is Jewish, oh my!'
"Both [former lobbyist and convicted criminal Jack] Abramoff and Cantor are Jewish"...The Democrats, the multicultural party of peace, love and tolerance. Except for Jews.
At Fundraiser, Jack Abramoff Named Sandwich After Eric Cantor -- Cantor Asked To Switch Sandwiches. "At a January 2003 fundraiser for Cantor, who had just become chief deputy whip, Abramoff unveiled the Eric Cantor sandwich, 'a tuna-based stacker,' which, lamentably, was 'not quite [the] power lunch befitting' the only Jewish Republican in the House. Hence a request by Cantor ... to switch his eponymous sandwich to roast beef on challah, 'a deli special that exudes Jewish power.'"
Baseball Crank has a screen capture of the entire Cantor page - check it out!
UPDATE THURSDAY 4:14 PM
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4 Comments:
Yes and they are the "Progressive" party. Let's hear it for progress.
The only thing progressive about the Donkeycrats is their look to new ways to say Jew. I am amazed at the Jewish community in their support of Obama and the Democrats.
I wonder if they will still feel that way if he wins in November and they find themselves inside cattle cars?
I met with Eric last summer for a real serious Yesha type of meeting with four other Congressmen and translated for him at the One Jerusalem rally a few months later. Besides his Southern accent, I see nothing wrong in him being Jewish.
Yisrael,
Obviously there's nothing wrong with Eric being Jewish - I'm thrilled that a fellow Jew might be the Republican party's Vice Presidential nominee.
But the Democratic National Committee's continued references to him as a Jew don't include the same warm feelings that my references to him as a Jew include. They're using Eric's Jewishness to try to associate him with Jack Abramoff and to the American electorate that says "sleaze, Jewish sleaze." The subtext (at least as I read it) is "all Jews are crooks like Abramoff." Imagine if Cantor wore a black hat too?
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