OBAMA KICKS OFF GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN BY CATERING TO JEWISH VOTERS
FITSNews – June 4, 2008 – Now that he’s officially the “presumptive presidential nominee” of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama moved quickly to broaden his appeal with Jewish voters, most of whom flocked to his soon-to-be former opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
From the LA Times:
Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama won applause with a promise to “do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” He also assailed his Republican opponent, John McCain, for “willful mischaracterization” of his call for diplomatic outreach to the Iranian regime and said he “has no interest in sitting down with our adversaries just for the sake of talking.”
After his speech, we’re assuming Obama led those party animals at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in a rousing version of Hava Nagila. He may have even joined them in the circular Horah formation. In fact, our bet is that Obama’s senior staffers are probably sitting on the “Change Talk Express” right now singing, “Hava Obama, Hava Obama, Hava Obama, He Really Likes The Jews …”
Will it work? We’ll see … with more Democrats voting against him than for him, Obama’s clearly got a tough road ahead.
By Strom June 4, 2008 at 5:50 pm
What do we give the Hot Flash Democrats who want Hillary to hijack the nomination?
By Ululations'R'Us June 4, 2008 at 6:57 pm
A fair fight & lots of room.
By Believe It Not (a.k.a. Sic Willie's Stalker) June 5, 2008 at 12:17 am
sic(k) willie again shows his racist core. willie does not discriminate. He will make hate posts against anyone if the price is right. He would even work for Jake if he saw money in it.
But Jake doesn’t need him. Jake has his own dog handler.
BIN News Editorial Staff – Never Stalked – never will.
By calhoun fawls June 5, 2008 at 2:46 am
Obama loves the Jews and Carolina fans secretly pull for Clemson
By Amazed June 5, 2008 at 7:10 am
AS a Jewish voter, I can at least speak for myself….. I wouldn’t trust Obama in an outhouse with a muzzle!!
By Clinton is finally toast? June 5, 2008 at 7:35 am
This is probably the first time a major candidate has made it this far in a presidential election process raising tons of cash without having Jewish financial support.
By ~~~VivaLaHillary~~~ June 5, 2008 at 4:46 pm
NO — !!!
AND I HOPE SHE DOESN”T TOAST OBAMA BECAUSE HE WILL TAKE US TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET PEOPLE!!!
From Dallas Morning News:
Hillary Clinton: I don’t want to be Obama’s VP
2:46 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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Democratic presidential hopeful New York Senator Hillary Clinton speaks at her election night event on the day of the Montana and South Dakota Democratic presidential primary, at Baruch College in New York, NY on June 3, 2008. Clinton said she had made no decision yet on the future of her candidacy for president after her rival Barack Obama clinched the Democratic party nomination. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) OK, she didn’t really say that. Not in those words. But these are her words, and I think they speak for themselves on the issue of whether she could serve a President Obama. In fact, from reviewing what she says about Obama, I’m not sure how she can justify not voting for McCain.
Are these the words of a future Obama VP?
On health care:
“We’ve got to put up a candidate who’s willing to stand up for it and fight for it … He has called his plan universal, then he has called it `virtually universal,’ but it simply does not deserve that label,”
You know, if you look at the recent article about Senator Obama’s work on health care reform in the Illinois legislature, it’s a very interesting piece about how he basically did the bidding of the insurance companies during that effort.
On foreign experience:
“Voters will have to judge if living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next president will face. I think we need a president with more experience than that, someone the rest of the world knows, looks up to and has confidence in.”
On foreign policy:
Senator Obama, meanwhile, represents another choice. He wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve the world?s most intractable problems. To advocating rash unilateral military action without cooperation from our allies in the most sensitive region of the world.
On the economy:
“There is one job we can’t afford on-the-job training for – our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history. Every day spent learning the ropes is another day of rising costs, mounting deficits and growing anxiety for our families. And they cannot afford to keep waiting.”
I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago. (Cheers, applause.)
On, well, everything:
I understand Senator Obama is talking about energy today, right here in Pennsylvania. And that?s great. But talking about problems is easy. Solving problems is hard. And speeches are no substitute for solutions. Speeches won?t lower gas prices, stop climate change, or lessen our dependence on oil from Saudi Arabia.
The true test comes when it?s time to match rhetoric with results. And unfortunately, we?ve seen that Senator Obama?s promises and speeches are often just words.
On the campaign trail, Senator Obama talks about clean energy. But in the Senate, he voted for Dick Cheney?s energy bill loaded with new tax breaks for oil companies. When he faced a tough choice, his support for a clean energy future turned out to be just words.
It?s like how he talks about fixing NAFTA. But his top economic adviser assured the Canadian government that he wouldn?t really follow through. His position? Just words.
Senator Obama promises to withdraw from Iraq within 16 months. But his top foreign policy adviser said he’s not really going to rely on that plan. I guess that plan is just words, too.
We need a president who will solve problems. Who will fight for our families long after the speeches are over and the cameras are gone. That?s the choice in this campaign: Solutions you can rely on – versus words you can?t.
Comments
Posted by Zachary Hilbun @ 3:52 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008
Maybe she wants to be McCain’s VP
report as objectionable
Posted by ~~~VivaLaHillary~~~ @ 4:00 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008
Blaze a trail! There is a groundswell of female support from those of us who WILL NOT vote for Obama or McCain. We have witnessed the naivete of Obama and the rigging tactics of McCain. We have been where you are — brushed aside as irrelevant. We’re counting on you and have faith in you!
By ~~~VivaLaHillary~~~ June 5, 2008 at 5:59 pm
RE: NOT OBAMA’S VP
Dallas Morning News Thread Update:
Posted by Ed Cognoski @ 4:39 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008
Two words: Voodoo economics.
report as objectionable
Posted by VivaLaHillary @ 5:35 PM Thu, Jun 05, 2008
Three Facts:
Obama is naive.
McCain is not.
McCain will cheat his way to the White House.
By ~~~VivaLaHillary~~~ December 29, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I forgot about having to cut and paste my comments. They had some conniving little blog moderators over there @ DMN. I think his name was Mikey who was the Conniver-in-Chief.
…
UPDATE:
I changed my mind.
Obama IS NOT naive.
McCain is not naive AND he is a seasoned cheater.
And a fruitcake.
:)