Jewish Leaders Defend Obama

[Yisrael]

 New York, NY - Jewish Leaders Defend Obama
New York, NY - Jewish organizational leaders defended Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama from a smear campaign claiming that he's a Muslim.

Obama has been the subject of an e-mail making the rounds in the Jewish community in recent days alleging that he is a Muslim, attended a radical Islamic madrassah in Indonesia, and took his oath of office on a Koran. None of the claims are true, and the campaign has published a detailed refutation on its Web site.

"These tactics attempt to drive a wedge between our community and a presidential candidate based on despicable and false attacks based on religion," said a letter signed by heads of several national Jewish organizations. "We reject these efforts to manipulate members of our community into supporting or opposing candidates. Attempts of this sort to mislead and inflame voters should not be part of our political discourse and should be rebuffed by all who believe in our democracy."

Among the signatories were David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee; Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League; Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. [JTA]

[Matthias Corvinus]

New York, NY - Jewish Leaders Defend Obama
New York, NY - Jewish organizational leaders defended Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama from a smear campaign claiming that he's a Muslim.

(1) As far as I know, Obama is not a Muslim.
(2) Even if he were (as opposed to an Islamic supremacist), it would not disqualify him from being President. Saying that someone isn't qualified for office because he is an ordinary Muslim (as opposed to an Islamic supremacist) is like saying someone should not be elected because they are a woman, Negro, Jew, Catholic, and so on. It does not make our side look good, and it gains sympathy and support for his side.

There is a saying that, if you fire a pea shooter at a tank, it does the tank no harm while telling its crew that you don't have an anti-tank weapon. The same goes for using weak arguments or unsubstantiated rumors; it tells everyone that you don't have a strong argument. We have at least two:

(1) Obama's ongoing promotion and empowerment of the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton. This, unlike "Obama is a Muslim," is definitely true, and unlike "Obama is a Muslim," it is a serious character issue that disqualifies him from any position of public trust or responsibility. His campaign, and his supporters at the National "Jewish" Democratic Council, have shown repeatedly that they can offer no defense against this. (Clinton also endorsed Sharpton, by the way.) There was no answer to my letter to the editor on this subject in a very heavily Democratic area, because no one is willing to step up to defend Obama on this.

(2) The Clinton campaign has accused the Obama campaign (and vice versa, by the way) of what sounds a lot like election fraud: voter intimidation and harassment characteristic of Third World dictatorships as opposed to civilized nations. We can just quote what they are saying about each other to rip them to shreds, and we won't even get our hands dirty with the mud. Google on "Clinton," "Obama," and "election misconduct."

[MassuhDGoodName]

Re:  "...Jewish organizational leaders defended Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama from a smear campaign claiming that he's a Muslim..."

In that case, we should start a smear campaign claiming that he's a JEW!

Then everybody will hate him, including the Jews!   

[JTFFan]

Re:  "...Jewish organizational leaders defended Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama from a smear campaign claiming that he's a Muslim..."

In that case, we should start a smear campaign claiming that he's a JEW!

Then everybody will hate him, including the Jews!   

absolutely right.  jews are the worst jew-haters of them all.

Unfortunately, there are alot of liberal self-hating jews

[Matthias Corvinus]

Re:  "...Jewish organizational leaders defended Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama from a smear campaign claiming that he's a Muslim..."

In that case, we should start a smear campaign claiming that he's a JEW!

Then everybody will hate him, including the Jews!   

MoveOn.org will do everything possible to prevent the election of any "Israel-obsessed Jews," "whining, arrogant Jew," "Jew Lieberman," as well as any "Catholic Pedophile of America" (I am using actual quotes from MoveOn.org people). Hmmm, if we spread a rumor that Obama is a Catholic, and if Giuliani is nominated, MoveOn.org will probably attack both of them. 

Seriously, all we have to do is tell the truth about him; he promotes racism and anti-Semitism.

[nopeaceforland]

A shocker, here's another Bill Clinton can't keep it in his pants!

[jdl4ever]

Those "Jewish leaders" should be killed by G-d.    

[nopeaceforland]

Those "Jewish leaders" should be killed by G-d.    

JDL: Shouldn't your quotes be around only the word Jewish? There's no way that these people are Jewish. To me a "Jewish" liberal is like leaving Judaism all together!

[JTFFan]

Those "Jewish leaders" should be killed by G-d.    

Agreed