Jewish Group Launches Online Campaign Against McCain/Palin

[Joanne98]

The National Jewish Democratic Council has begun an online campaign to oppose Sen. John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate:

Senator John McCain made a poor choice in his first critical presidential decision with his vice presidential selection of Governor Sarah Palin. We, in the Jewish community, have to question McCain’s judgment for choosing a right-wing religious conservative with absolutely no foreign policy experience and a brewing scandal which is being investigated by the Alaska state legislature.

It is ironic that McCain, who turned 72 last week, has said, “The fundamental principle behind any selection of a running mate would be whether that person is fully prepared to take over.” And then McCain selected Palin???

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Among the objections to Palin:

- Palin believes that creationism should be taught in our public schools.

- Palin is against reproductive choice and is against abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

- Palin does not believe climate change is man-made.

- Palin says she is against wasteful government spending, yet she endorsed the “bridge to nowhere” and then flip-flopped when it became a political liability.

Additionally, just last month, Palin was at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, where she attended a speech by David Brickner, the Executive Director of Jews for Jesus. During the speech, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.

If she is such a supporter of Israel, why didn’t she condemn Brickner’s speech at the time?

Do we really want Palin to be one heartbeat away from the presidency?

You can sign their petition here.

More reasons for Jewish voters to oppose McCain/Palin are here. Politico had this last week on the topic.

In reality, Palin's record on Israel, while friendly, is as thin as you'd expect from the first-term governor of Alaska.

Here is the NJDC's Factsheet on Obama vs. McCain. (pdf)

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/9/5/174833/5340

[napi21]

1. Does THIS give us a boost in Florida? n/t

[skooooo]

3. uhhhhhh YEAH!

:bounce:

[glowing]

4. Yes, which is why Hillary, God willing the weather, is coming to Florida first.

Don't forget the hanging chad, when Jewish voters realized by slight of chad, they had voted for Pat Buchanan. and racist old Pat is Palin's strogest cheerleader.

[napi21]

9. GREAT! The reason I asked was because I saw the name Jewish Democrats, or something like that,

and I didn't know if that was a separate group from those in Fl. I KNOW a LOT of retirees move to Fl, and people always talk about the Jewish group there, but I was afraid that maybe a lot of the wealthier jewish voters who can afford to move to Fl. were Pubs.

Anyway, thanks for the info! YEAH!!!!!

[glowing]

11. Oh no.. they are quite liberal and not all that bad off money wise.

They are the queens of gossip and love running various community organization fundraisers... trying to outdo one another.. Oh they are so marvelous. They weren't happy about losing Clinton, but Clinton had class.. something Palin lacks. Pics of dead moose aren't going to make these people happy.. They will now actually quit grumbling at Wexler and go to work.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Just becasue LIEberman supports McSame, there should be no assumption of

wide spread support among Jewish voters.
I saw signs behind KO and Rachel in Denver that said "ORTHODOX JEWS FOR OBAMA"

[mucifer]

5. most Jews can't stand lieberman. He didn't get the Jewish vote when he ran

for president in the dem primaries.

[PlanetBev]

10. Damn right, Mucifer

Every Jew I know, including me, can't stand his holier-than-thou, Benedict Arnold, traitorous snake in the grass ass.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Ditto.

[Hope And Change]

6. K & R!

[cliffordu]

7. OY!!!

[denem]

8. Try as they might, extremists cannot resist anti-semitism

Palin, I'm sure, would have started ringing alarm bells across American Jewry even without the Jews for Jesus hate speech. She's that sort of person.