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Obama Holds On to His Jewish Supporters

Posted May 7, 2008

Democrat Barack Obama currently does better among Jewish voters than presumed Republican nominee John McCain, according to a Gallup Poll released today. He continued to trail opponent Hillary Clinton slightly among Jewish Democrats interviewed in April. But this looks to be good news for Obama, who has battled persistent and false Internet rumors that he is Muslim. And he appears to have maintained his Jewish support after breaking last month with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has called Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan one of the most important voices of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In a hypothetical Election Day matchup, Obama was preferred by 61 percent of Jewish voters, and McCain by 32 percent, according to the poll. The same voters said that they preferred Clinton over McCain, 66 percent to 27 percent. The poll found no recent decline in the percentage of Jewish Democrats favoring Obama for their party's nomination, though overall they continued to favor Clinton, 50 percent to 43 percent, reflecting the well-documented divide in the community over the two candidates. (A similar poll in April showed that 51 percent of Jewish voters surveyed preferred Clinton, and 41 picked Obama.)

—Liz Halloran

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ISRAEL OBAMAPHOBIA

Israel and the Diaspora, hysterically Obamaphobic, have been screaming the bombing of Iran as she steadily grows in economic and military power. But now, since instigating the bombing of Iraq, no one hears these screams of the damned.

Why is it taking President Bush and Prime Minister Brown so long to again don their beanies and head for Israel, to renew their sacred vows of undying allegiance to Israel? Is it possible that these political prostitutes have betrayed the honor entrusted with them?

Why is it taking Supreme Mullah Khamenei so long to call for a fresh flood of Iranian blood, a great martyrdom that would lend credibility to Israel’s Obamaphobia? It is possible that the Iranians and Arabs have finally grown wise to Israel’s Neo-Marxist tactic of inciting mortal strife between Muslims and Christians?

Europeans, wildly Obamaphilic, have been cheering for peacemaker Obama and sneering at warmonger McCain. Is possible that they condemn Israel’s land robbery and war crimes against the Palestinian People, enabled by their sustainable parasitism on the wealth and blood of the American People? Is Obama their hope for a friendlier and safer World?

Why do the Russians and Chinese have loaded nuclear weapons pointed at the head of Israel? Is it possible that Israel’s arsenal of 150 nuclear weapons is a threat to some of their vital defenses?

Are Israel and the Diaspora inherently incapable of realizing that Nemesis eternally determines their special fate? What do these Judeofascist Land Robbers not see when they look in the mirror?

AMERICA'S JEWISH VOTERS

FIRST IT WAS THEIR HATE-BAINTING; AND NOW IT IS THEIR INGRATIATION.

OBAMA UNITING AND PARADIGM SHIFTING

OBAMA UNITING AND PARADIGM SHIFTING IN THE AMERICAN CULTURAL WAR

Obama is politically uniting Blacks and Whites, Christians and Muslims, Kennedy Liberals and Reagan Conservatives; the Podhoretz Neo-Cons and the Leiberman Neo-Libs are screaming, “Crucify him!”; and the World is singing, “God Bless America”.

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