Kerry Now In Bush Bind

[Herschel]

Emerging strategy: Attack president’s Mideast tack but not Israel stand.

After vanquishing his rivals in a stunning Super Tuesday near sweep, de facto Democratic nominee John Kerry now faces a debate over foreign policy whose battle lines are still being drawn.

The challenge, as some observers see it, is how to bash President George W. Bush’s foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, without attacking his stance on Israel, which has proven an asset to the Republican chief executive among Jewish voters.

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“What he had to do is separate his attacks on Bush’s foreign from his policy on Israel,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “So what we heard at the meeting is that he’s trying to align himself almost entirely behind Bush’s foreign policy; he talked about his understanding of Sharon’s , about the fence. He was laying out his positions to those who care first and foremost about Israel.”

To do well in the Jewish community, said Foxman, “he has to position himself close to Bush’s policies on Israel.”

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http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=9150

Kerry must stay in line on Israel. Waffling could be disasterous.

[David Dunham]

1. Kerry Is Going to Support Israel Down the Line

[DenverDem]

2. Too bad that responsible foreign policy leadership

is not "electable".

[Forkboy]

3. You dont have to worry about Kerry

He positions himself close to Bush policies a lot.Israel will be no exception.

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. His best bet: He doesn't think bush supports sharon enough

Both Kerry and his supporters should take every possible opportunity to remind voters that when bush made an ill-advised remark to the effect that he hoped sharon would show restraint when firing US-supplied helicopter gunships into densely populated residential areas during routine assassination operations, Kerry bravely joined most of his colleagues in immediately sending bush a strongly-worded letter of reprimand, upbraiding him for his comments.

In fact, it would be a good idea for his staff to make copies of the letter, with Kerry's signature highlighted, to make available to the press or for use in campaign literature.

[drewb]

5. QUOTE... "To do well in the Jewish community"

Policies like this are an anti-semites wet dream come true...

I don't think I could be more disgusted right now...

:wtf:

[_Jumper_]

8. I feel your pain

I am agnostic but I am of Pakistani descent so I understand how it feels to have the public image of "your people" hijacked by religious fundies.

[Fight_n_back]

10. Media assasination

didn't kill Bill Clinton. Dean killed himself by hiring a crappy staff and not ending the infighting. Its why he fired Trippy. There was a reason no one had ever heard of Howard Dean before last year.

[Darranar]

6. Why does Foxman claim to speak for the Jewish community?

[_Jumper_]

7. Why?

Why does every presidential candidate have to be a whore that supports anything the Israeli government does? Would he lose if he took an even-handed stance like Dean, who led for a long time before the media assasination of him, did?

[lefty_mcduff]

9. Yeah.

We wouldn't want anyone to take a leadership role in the ME.
That might lead to peace breaking out, and with all the RW assholes running the show, we really don't want that.

Bad for business...

[drewb]

11. RW assholes, LW assholes...

They're still assholes...

Maybe at some point we can aim a little higher...

:loveya: