Republicans Exploiting Jewish Community to Attack Obama

As this story in the Swamp says, the republicans tried this tactic during the campaign and lost. Remember the nasty chain emails that claimed Obama was a secret Muslim terrorist, the DVDs in the newspapers, the epithets on the waffle boxes, Sarah Palin rallies. They tried so hard.
Dare they go there again? Yes they do.
What a dastardly and sucky little party they are.

Republican congressional leaders are attempting to "drive a wedge'' between President Barack Obama and the politically influential American Jewish community, the way one well-known conservative Republican sees it.

Israel is the wedge.

The GOP attempted to do this, with no real success, during the presidential election campaign, when the Republican Jewish Coalition strove to peel some of the reliably Democratic vote from the Obama camp. Opponents ran ads in Jewish weekly newspapers in South Florida picturing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader who has spoken of the destruction of Israel and disputed the existence of the Holocaust, those ads warning that Obama is ready to negotiate with this enemy of Israel.

And now, as the president moves from the Middle East, where he spelled out his demands for both Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the pursuit of an elusive peace, to Germany, where today he evokes the memories of one of the great tragedies of human history with his visit to the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald and one of the great atrocities of World War II, the firebombing of Dresden, Republicans back home are raising warning flags about Obama's demands and words for Israel.

Pat Buchanan, the conservative cable television news commentator who served as a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, said today on MSNBC's Morning Joe that his fellow Republicans are again attempting to "drive a wedge'' between Obama and the American Jewish community. Read the rest at the Swamp

Republican Jewish Coalition Hating On Obama

It always strikes me as odd that Jewish people would be hating on anyone. They love Ms. Mooseburger, though. Have people just lost their minds? This election is wacky.

Politico: A Republican group is taking responsibility for a poll that has roiled the Jewish community by asking sharply negative questions about Senator Barack Obama.

The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is launching a campaign against Obama on behalf of Senator John McCain, sponsored the poll to "understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters," the group's executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico.

The poll asked voters their response to negative statements about Obama, including reported praise for him from a leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas and a friendship early in his career with a pro-Palestinian university professor. Some Jewish Democrats who received the poll – including a New Republic writer who lives in Michigan – were outraged by the poll, describing it in interviews as "ugly" and disturbing. A group that supports Obama, the Jewish Council for Education and Research even staged a protest outside the Manhattan call center from which the calls originated Tuesday.

Update 9-17

NYT: A Caucus reader in Florida tells us that she too was called by a research firm that has been telephoning other Jewish voters and delivering negative information about Senator Barack Obama.

After readers reported to various Web sites — including Politico, The New Republic, and Talking Points Memo — that they had received offensive calls, Politico reported that the poll was sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is working on behalf of Senator John McCain.

Matt Brooks, executive director of the coalition, told Politico that the firm was trying to “understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters.”

What this Jewish group has been telling voters about Obama;

Obama has had a decade long relationship with pro-Palestinian leaders in Chicago

the leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef, expressed support for Obama and his hope for Obama's victory

the church Barack Obama has attended is known for its anti-Israel and anti-American remarks

Jimmy Carter's anti-Israel national security advisor is one of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisors

Barack Obama was the member of a board (sic) that funded a pro-Palestinian chartiable organization

Barack Obama called for holding a summit of Muslim nations exlcuding Israel if elected president