Republican Leaders Attempt To Drive A Wedge Between Barack Obama And Jewish Voters

[Hissyspit]

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/palm/blog/2008/05/barack_obamas_jewish_vo_suppor.html

Republican leaders attempt to drive a wedge between Barack Obama and Jewish voters

> Posted by Mark Hollis at 6:40 PM

State Rep. Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, today led a Republican Party attack on Barack Obama’s scheduled visit Thursday to a synagogue in south Palm Beach County. Hasner, the Florida House majority leader, told reporters in a telephone conference call that Jewish support for Republicans is gaining. He also said there’s “an increasing number of Jews who are skeptical of Obama.”

Hasner is Jewish. Obama plans a town hall meeting at noon Thursday at the B’nai Torah Congregation west of Boca Raton. The congregation serves an area that backed Hillary Clinton over Obama by a 2-to-1 margin in Florida’s Jan. 29 presidential primary.

“It’s pretty clear that a good many Jewish voters have serious reservations about voting for Senator Obama,” Hasner said. “Otherwise, the Democrats wouldn’t be working so hard to defend their base. (South Florida) is a Mecca for Jewish Democratic voters. If everything was good, they wouldn’t be here on the defensive with (U.S. Rep.) Robert Wexler walking Senator Obama around.”

State Democratic Party leaders quickly refuted Hasner’s estimate of a groundswell of Jewish support for Republicans. A spokesman for the Democrats called Hasner remarks “a fib,” and state House Democratic Leader Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, who is Jewish, said the assertions are “dead wrong.”

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Meanwhile, Hasner said he’s received telephone calls in recent days from members of the B’nai Torah Congregation who have expressed opposition to the Illinois senator’s visit. One is Ed Kone, a Boca Raton trial attorney who attends the synagogue regularly. He’s also a Republican. “There’s a lot of places where (Obama) can speak,” Kone said. “He should not be brought into the synagogue, and his message rammed down everybody’s throats." Kone described Obama’s stances on various issues as “anti-Israeli” and said that Obama “clearly has a Jewish problem.”

Josh Earnest, Obama's top campaign spokesman, said Obama is hardly anti-Israel.

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[MannyGoldstein]

1. In MA, Obama Carried The Most Predominantly-Jewish Cities

Newton and Brookline.

I ain't too worried.

[anonymous171]

2. They've been trying to do this since the start.

Turning their neocon liability into a positive.

[The Magistrate]

3. Republicans Trot This Out Every Four Years, Sir

It will no more work this year than in the others....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. Jewish people aren't stupid!

Gallup poll from memory on the Jewish vote

Obama 60%
McCain 40%

[rockymountaindem]

6. That's troubling

Jews voted 80% for Kerry. I hope Obama can improve on those numbers, because I just don't see why any of my fellow Jews would even think about McCain.

[Mimosa]

5. Oxymoron Alert

From the article:

“It’s pretty clear that a good many Jewish voters have serious reservations about voting for Senator Obama,” Hasner said. “Otherwise, the Democrats wouldn’t be working so hard to defend their base. (South Florida) is a Mecca for Jewish Democratic voters. If everything was good, they wouldn’t be here on the defensive with (U.S. Rep.) Robert Wexler walking Senator Obama around.”

"(South Florida) is a Mecca for Jewish Democratic voters." Anybody that clueless hasn't a chance. LOL

[Thrill]

7. They don't know the guy. Thats why he's there. Sick of these stupid ass Republicans

.

[rocktivity]

8. Well, there's always John McCain, who hasn't renounced his pastor Hagee

who's on record as having described Hitler as a hunter God sent to force Jews into Isreal...

:eyes:
rocknation

[still_one]

9. As a Jew I have been and continue to be an Obama supporter

Incidently, Rober Wexler is Jewish, and he was one of the early Super Delagates who came out for Obama

The majorty of Jews are Democrats, and the majority of Jewish Democrats WILL VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, who WILL BE OBAMA

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. absolutely!

[BenDavid]

12. As a Jew, I have been and continue to be an HRC supporter. All

the way to the convention if necessary.

[still_one]

13. That is your right Ben /nt

[monmouth]

10. That's absurd. They had to get the largest synagogue in the area to

hold the crowd that has requested to see him. My Jewish friends love him..

[still_one]

14. This is just typical rovian politics, via mccain surrogates /nt

[NotThisTime]

17. What location is this? Today's location?

I keep hearing about this Jewish problem on TV (Zuckerman just on MSNBC saying the same thing)... I do not know what else Obama can do, he has a policy on Israel & he has stated his commitment to Israel, so what else does he have to do?

[monmouth]

19. This is today's schedule...However***

Barack's schedule for Thursday in Florida. Updated at 10:07 AM

BOCA RATON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced today that he will hold a public town hall meeting in Boca Raton on Thursday during his three-day campaign swing through Florida.

The meeting will be held at B'nai Torah Congregation, 6261 SW 18th St., in Boca Raton


**** Heard somewhere he had to go back to DC for a vote today. I honestly don't know if this stop is canceled today or not...

[opihimoimoi]

15. This is how GOP wins...they do nefarious shit...make trouble, distract...act like BULLIES

[Vinca]

16. Well, wait until the Jewish people hear the comments about Hitler

from McCain's buddy Hagee.

[NotThisTime]

18. Those comments were horrendous /nt

[Barack_America]

20. aaand then Hagee comes along and fucks that all up. n/t