Team O is worried over the possibility of losing Jewish votes and cash. Emphasis on cash.
Obama’s top presidential campaign advisers are putting together a plan to go on the offensive against critics of his stance on Israel, I’m told, and are assembling a team of high profile surrogates who are well respected in the Jewish community to battle criticism in the media and ensure that it doesn’t go unanswered.
Obama’s supporters say the plan is in effect an acknowledgment that conservative attacks on Obama’s Israel stance have made defections among Jewish voters and donors a possibility they must take seriously. Obama’s advisers see a need to push back even harder on the attacks than they did in 2008, in part because Obama now has a record on the issue to defend — a record that even Obama’s supporters concede has not been adequately explained.
It seems to me that once again Obama and his advisers are blaming bad PR for the effects of bad policies. His administration has taken the Palestinians’ position on borders and we learned today that it has swapped Israel for North Korea on its terrorism watch list. Those policies really can’t be “adequately explained” in a way that makes them seem anything other than what they are: at best very questionable, and at worst, hostile to Israel.
Look for the Obama PR offensive to be carried without due skepticism in the MSM:
with surrogates publishing op ed pieces that represent the White House’s point of view.
Every single pro-Obama op-ed in the MSM on the subject of Israel should be considered to be nothing less than part of his political campaign. You know, like pretty much every other pro-Obama op-ed in the MSM already is part of his campaign.
“I have scientific proof that people are far dumber than they realize.” – Nan Flanagan from True Blood.
That could be the best line from the entire True Blood series, and that is saying a lot.
If we re-elect this dunce Obama it will be proof positive.
I’d be curious to see who the “ghetto kapos” will be who defend Obama’s Israel policy to their “community.”
Thomas Friedman, for one. David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, for another. And anyone associated at all with J Street.
It was Remnick who published a piece in The New Yorker under his own name, prior to Obama’s May speech, espousing Obama’s “1967 borders” proposal, plus “right of return” for Arabs to Israel proper, plus dividing Jerusalem, plus making the Arab areas of the West Bank and Gaza “contiguous” by bisecting Israel with a corridor, as “what everybody knows has to happen.”
What will be interesting is whether Dennis Ross will permit himself to be part of this sorry bunch. Ross was the architect of the proposal which then-PM Ehud Barak accepted, and Arafat thankfully rejected, to give the Arabs the West Bank, Gaza and half of Jerusalem for the usual worthless guarantee—and he’s been smarting ever since over the failure of his plan to be realized.
Calling them “ghetto kapos” trivializes the Holocaust and is insulting to Holocaust victims.
More evidence (if any were necessary) of their tin political ear. By protesting in this manner, with no change in actual policies, it will only serve to remind their PR targets of why they are pissed.
Not gonna work. Liberals will buy a lot of nonsense, as long as someone else is paying. Not this. This time, their own ox is being gored. Liberal Jews are liberals first and Jews second or third or whatever, but they are still Jews. Some of them remember that. They have been raised with tales of the Holocaust. Many have been raised with Jewish tradition. Israel means something to many of them.
The meeting between Obama and Bibi awoke many of them. Rude wake-up call. Crap bagel for breakfast.
“American Flotilla Boat,
organized by Hamas and with armed terrorists aboard for purposes of violence,
Is Named “Audacity of Hope” after Obama’s book —
President Obama Has No Objection — Thereby Giving It His Approval.”
Every article regarding Obama’s policy toward Israel should begin with this caption.
What else is there to say? — This says it all.