20 Days to go – With friends like these, who needs enemies?
October 15th, 2008 | by chu |
Iphone says:
Obama 364
McCain 174
Obviously the big event is tonight – Debate at Hofstra University. I will send around some recommendations on live blogs and pre-debate anaylsis and “what to watch for” from people that don’t have other jobs/work today!
In the meantime, I wanted to make sure you are aware of some recent comments by Jessie Jackson. It seems to me (but maybe this always happens?) that this year has been unusual in the amount of “friendly fire” both Obama and McCain have taken from their own supporters. Phil Graham’s “nation of whiners” and “recession is in your head” comments come to mind along with the McCain adviser who told a reporter “we are not going to talk about the economy anymore.” Now its Obama’s turn again. Here’s part of a story from PRN Newswire-USNweswire:
NEW YORK, Oct 14, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has condemned the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s statement about “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.”“Rev. Jackson’s remarks, which appeared in an interview with the journalist Amir Taheri in today’s New York Post, echo classic anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power,” said AJC Executive Director David A. Harris. “This statement, regrettably, is not the first troubling comment by Rev. Jackson regarding Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people.”“As poll after poll has revealed, over a span of decades, the United States is deeply committed to Israel because the vast majority of Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, identify with Israel as a proven friend and ally,” said Harris. “It is this commonality of shared values and shared interests, and not Jackson’s conspiratorial notions of power, that unite Israel and America.”Rev. Jackson made his remark at a conference on international relations in France last week.Arguing as a private citizen that an Obama administration could bring significant change to U.S. foreign policy, Jackson was quoted as saying that “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” would lose much of their influence should Senator Obama be elected president.Harris expressed AJC’s appreciation that the Obama presidential campaign was quick to reject Jackson’s comments and reaffirm the senator’s “unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security.”
Tags: Israel, Jackson, Jewish Vote, Obama
