Obama 2012: Campaign Assembles Team of Influential Jewish Surrogates to Fight Criticism of Israel Policy
- Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:43am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Is President Obama fearful that the tide of Jewish support might finally be turning for him in 2012? Obama, who received nearly 78 percent of the Jewish vote in 2008 has suffered backlash among Jewish supporters after airing some of his more egregious stances on Israel — namely his call for Israel to “return” to its “1967 borders.”
Obama, who conservatives believe has never been a friend of Israel, is preparing his campaign’s counterattack to criticisms on his Israel policy. Reportedly, Obama has enlisted a team of influential Jewish surrogates — who have, despite Obama’s spotted track record with Israel, remained loyal to the administration – to help fight his conservative critics. In addition to rallying support among voters and donors, the Jewish supporters on Obama’s team will reportedly publish Op-Ed pieces in various publications that “represent the White House’s viewpoint.”
The initiative will be spearheaded by Obama senior adviser David Axelrod
The campaign is assembling a group of high-profile figures who are respected in the Jewish community to counter criticism against Obama and to push back against attacks, Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent reported Saturday in his The Plum Line blog.
The plan comes as the campaign acknowledges that Jewish voters and donors have defected to the Republican Party following conservative attacks on Obama’s Israel stance, Sargent said.
David Axelrod then leads the discussion with team members on how respond to such criticism:
“We will have highly credible spokespeople and surrogates speak out in a general manner in support of what this administration has done, and articulate it in a way that we think will resonate with voters who care about this issue,” Alan Solow, the former head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told Sargent in an interview. “We will meet with supporters who have expressed concerns or want to be briefed on these issues on a one-on-one basis.”
Does enlisting prime movers in the Jewish community to serve as White House mouthpieces seem manipulative to you? Are Obama’s Jewish supporters prepared to abandon Israel by spinning a positive Obama administration narrative, even though the administration’s history regarding Israel may not in fact positive? It makes one wonder: are Obama’s Jewish — supposedly pro-Israel — supporters willing to see him re-elected at any and all cost?
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HippoNips
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:15amMost likely he’ll only get self hating, Israel hating Jews to promote his non-sense.
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:14amWith money, I can make the monkeys dance.
Money leads to admiration (as a symbol of success). Once you have the people’s hearts, you don’t need their minds. They will follow you. People want to feel important; they want to be around successful, powerful people and the closer they are to their leader (Obama or God), the more important they feel.
You might have to re-read that last statement, it’s powerful.
Report Post »psst
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:13amGuess they don’t mind jumping on those box cars again.
Report Post »Those who forget history are Doomed to repeat it.
IMO: Any ameriKan Jew/s who supports Soetoro is/are no friend/s of Israel.
What da hey. Many Jews are on that flotilla that Israel (I hope)will sink
So they will drown. Soooo?
MBA
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:11amI think obamy has bigger problems to worry about than Israel. Oh wait, the destruction of the USA is working out for him just as he wanted. Time for him to destroy Israel with the help of his Judas Jews. When obamy and soros (the former n*zi) is done with you, who is going to protect you when he comes after you and your gold coins?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:10amAmerican Jews don’t worship God as Jews in Israel do. They worship the aborted baby, symbol of Progressive-Liberalism.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:57amTeddrunk…..you must be drunk….opinionated!
Report Post »panz
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:26pmThis IS an opinion forum, right?
Report Post »pjgroff61
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:46pmCertainly you know little about American Jews. But then I bet is scratch you a little deeper and I will find a member of the KKK in your doohbag tree.
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:08amJews accepting money to defend an anti-Israeli American Policy? That is so Jew of them.
Report Post »Another victory for the mighty Dollar!
SilentReader
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:07amIt won’t work!
David Axelrod, who marketed Obama like a shiny new product the last time around, is a traitor to Israel. And no matter how he spins it this time, we’re onto him and his product, Barack Obama.
Axelrod should be ashamed of the Obama minions policies toward Israel. This is the most anti-Israel administration that there ever has been in the history of America.
A man who bows to the Saudi King, and openly sides with the warring Palestinian Authority, who continually preaches hate-Jew to their people and their children from cradle to grave, and who has partnered with the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, is not exactly what I would call pro-Israel.
This is the horrific mass-murdering Hamas:
http://youtu.be/I1M4eH9Kk7I
Barack Obama is an anti-Israel racist of the worst kind and no matter how Axelrod markets him this time his actions will speak louder than any sugar-coated words.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:05amI hope and pray people are finally seeing the evil of this mans agenda and his deeds for what they are, and the destruction he is bringing about.
Report Post »http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (new art)
moreteaplease
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:03amThis is a very desperate move by the administration and I doubt it will do anything to change peoples minds.
Report Post »I wonder how much these surrogates are being paid to do this-or what kind of favors they are receiving?
I seriously doubt they are doing this out the goodness of their hearts.
teddrunk
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:00amAh, so these Obama Jews would be like those Jews in WW2 that helped round up other Jews for the NAZIs.
Report Post »SallyV
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:29amFor example, George Soros!!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:29pmGood guess!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:04pmThe nazis of today are the right wing americans and right wing israeli government which illigally occupies gaza and refuses to go back to the 67 border,the only legal borders.These are the dictatorial tyrans who like the nazis are racist anti-semites[the 21st anti-semitism is directed at arabs,this time].
Report Post »geigergag
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:17pmRose Ellen, just how far up your a_s is your head??? As indicated by your comments you are completely ignorant of history or even the English language. The Jews are the indigenous people of Israel, including Judea and Samaria. There are no “palestinian” arabs, that is merely myth perpetuated by the terrorist pedophile Yasir Arafat. The Jews have been in Israel continuously over 4000 years and there has never been an independent arab state in Israel. The Treaty of San Remo gave more than half of Jewish Israel to Jordan in the 1920′s. All the arabs want is genocide of the Jews and more apartheid Arab states ethnically cleansed of Jews. See http://www.mythsandfacts.org
Report Post »Seede
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 7:13pmWell said and to the point but I’m afraid that Rose is nothing but a plant to stir the pot. You will never get a decent response from her or any logic whatsoever. –
Report Post »GABOB
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:17pm@ Drunk Ted
My thoughts exactly. How is one to support Isreal when the leftist policies that they embrace are the ones that destroy them?
Like burning down your house and complaining that you have no where to live.
Report Post »civilman43
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 10:23amThat would be correct Ted but then Obama tosses them to the ash heap at the end. Some people never learn.I won‘t be silent it could be Lutheran’s next!
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:00amLook at what I say, not at what I do. Sorry big boy that no longer works.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:00amUnabashed & deceitful political pandering.
He’s going to rhetorically pander to the Jewish voters while he continues to throw Israel under the bus w/ his policies … this is another low point for the administration.
Report Post »Grandmadar
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:57amShould we expect anything less of a desperate man in his 2nd bid for the White House???
Report Post »drago
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:56amThere is a big difference between American jews, and jews in Israel…..and its proven everyday here in America.Jews in this country are easily bought off by the left, and care nothing about Israel…..
Report Post »Redsfanforever
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:18amI agree DRAGO this amazes me, I wonder when the homeland that they claim to cherish so much is under a full assult if they will finally awaken? what do jews who vote for liberals have to gain with BO or any liberal, besides giving back their homeland to those who hate them. I think that water is now solid and solids are now liquid just sayin
Report Post »olddog
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:55amBO found jewish people to talk down their own people and country, gee that could never happen here.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:55amI know many Jews, and none of them are going to accept this. Hopefully, they have influence over others who might.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:04pmUnfortunately when Hitler first appeared on the political scene in the 1920′s the majority of the German Jews thought he would be good for the terrible post World War I economy and high inflation. After his book, “Mein Kampft” was published, most changed their mind immediately. It seems Hitler’s change included the extermination of the European Jew and the annihilation of World Jewry.
But some Jews, incredibly, were still optimistic about their future in a New Socialist Germany in spite of the fact that Jews didn‘t have a future in Germany or elsewhere in a Europe controlled by the German Nazi’s.Now we’re in the 21st Century and Obama is popular with the liberal, progressive, socialist-marxists including some Jews.
How can this be after Obama has taken sides with the Palestinians who have a political policy of Jewish extermination ? It didn‘t make sense in the 1920’s and it doesn’t make sense in 2011. No matter how cleary Hitler spelled out his Anti-Jewish plans there were some that still believed that he “didn’t mean them”.
Later, while awaiting their turn in the Death Camp“showers” (gas chambers) those same Jews were pondering and asking themselves, “How in the h _ _ _did this happen?”
Today as in the first years of Hitler’s rise to complete power in Germany, some Jews think ” It couldn’t be all that bad, what’s he going to do, kill all of us ?”. The answer to that question was, “ ”Yes, pretty much”. Sixty six years later history is
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:53amMy conservative Jewish friends loathe obama.
Report Post »Liberal New York Jews I know hate themselves too much to not vote for obama.
How much more damage does obama have to do to get them to wake up???
pjgroff61
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:49pmYup much like Ed Asner, a Jew who is more a socialist then a Jew.
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:53amThese Jews are “Judas goats”. That’s the leader goat that leads the herd to slaughter. I used to think all Jews had all Jews best interests at heart because they seem to always support each other. I guess this new bunch of contemporary Jews are more democrat than Jewish and are getting their 30 pieces of silver from Obama in some way for their treachery.
Report Post »LibertyLynne
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:53amI can’t wait to find out who these “highly credible” mouthpieces could be! Must be Progressive/Marxist/Socialist/Communist Jewish mouthpieces. Youngsters who inherited their livelihood and have forgotten Israel’s history….or they really stand to gain some big bucks for being turncoats! Sold their souls to the Devil in the Whitehouse.
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:51amBO and his BS.. use those blind fools and flush when you’re through.. don’t mind the paperwork.
Report Post »boca_chica
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:51amYou mean the fat, rich American Jews? They tend to be liberal as long as it does not affect their money or person. They work hard to attain wealth and then get mentally lazy-maybe it’s the people they have to work with(media..etc). Or maybe they have learned that each enclave has to be self-supporting and “the devil take the hindmost”. I allways thought that they would take the long view-guess I was wrong.
Report Post »bejenin
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:10amTHese liberal Jews are very twisted. I am so far to the right. I have NEVER voted for a democrat in my life. I work in for the military on weekends,and am a observant Jew. My father fought for this country for THREE years, got a degree in physics and became a doctor. He has never voted for a democrat nor has anybody else in my family. Don’t generalize about Jews. NOT ONE of my friends voted for this Satan Obama. We are politicaly observant and most are observant to our faith.
Report Post »I am disgusted by any Jew or any American who supports Obama.
mh8169
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 5:16pmBoca_Chica: your prejudice is to clear to this person. We may agree that BHO is a poor leader and clearly to all of us a limited person of intellect. Yes, there are Jews (some of whom are quite wealthy and there are others who do not have the wealth) have supported this marginal president. As a Jewish person, I must call your statement troubling and candidly quite stupid. One needs to watch out for character assassinations and ad hominem attacks. Please do not embulate MSNBC and the rest of the liberal media.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:50amCheck out Obam’s logo for 2012…red, white and AQUA? Where is the U.S. flag? Commie, commie Obamie…
Any Jewish person who sticks with this guy is a betrayer to the United States of America…and Israel and cannot be considered of the Jewish faith….this is all bs!!!!!! How low will you go?
Report Post »RIGHTHOOK
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:49amNice charade! Another magic act by BHO and his loser advisers.
Report Post »ILUVAMERICA
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:49amHis “Israel” friends are TURNCOATS and care nothing for Israel!
Report Post »They are Traitors to Israel just like the traitors in the WHITEHOUSE!!!
liberal_equals_liar
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:12pm“Turncoats”. I like this imagery for our liberal traitors. Well said.
Report Post »dorothea
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:03pmThe Jewish contributors to the BHO campaign are RENEGADES! Israel means nothing for them. They have an agenda similar to the one that the usurper has, and they will continue to give him their money. Dispicable!!
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:11pmReal Jews oughta be taking names
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 9:48amManipulative? Ya think?
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:03amObama has no shame.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:30amOBAMA’S NEW CAMPAIGN: I LOVE JEWS
B.S. – Bologna Sandwich
The Greek Flotilla is claiming that Greece is being controlled by Israel as well: http://tiny.cc/8c1ex
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:36amWe shall all band together to Boycott the Jews that stand with Obama. They are bound to have some sort of
Report Post »business. We must take action and hit them in the “POCKETBOOK” that is the only way to make a point.
You hit people where there money is and it seems to be more productive.If it is the Hollywood Elite. Then we have to band the Movies, not simply by not going ourselves but by letting it be known at the Theatres and
the Movie goers. I am tired of Obama getting a pass no matter how he treats the Jewish People. May his
campaign CRASH and BURN……. America will not be as easily fooled this election cycle. WE have become educated
blackdanger10
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:45amJust like carting out the doctors behind him during the health care scam. They’ve replaced lab coats with yamakas.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:05amNice work Tiffany. Of course you left out the remainder of his quote regarding mutually agreed to swaps. Do the writers here really think such lame attempts at stirring up controversy work. I mean other than the biased angry mob.
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:21amthe “mutual swaps” sounds reasonable when you first hear it…but it is a scam. Please listen if you are an Insider Extreme subscriber…well presented http://www.glennbeck.com/content/videos/#uri=channels/383677/1353388
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:36am@kschmud ok GB is the last person I would look to for the truth regarding the conflict. The pre 1967 boarders are what the international community provided Israel. There is no rationale for allowing them to keep territory gained after the war.
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:09pmThe won the war – so are entitled to keep what they won
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:13amHow many have read the book on Bonhoffer? There were important and recognized officials in the German Church who spoke out and supported some of Hitler’s policies at first…it was too late by the time they woke up. WAKE UP!
Report Post »phoenix110
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:14amWhy can’t obama represent his own policy on Israel? What a coward. His policies speak for themselves and it is about time he own up to ALL of them. Is he going to hire a surrogate to represent him at the debates? I for one wouldn’t put it past him.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:49amSounds like the Jewish version of Uncle Tom.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:58amWhy would anyone want to be a mouthpiece for BO???? FOOLS
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:28pmThey’ll get out their list of the most leftist/liberal/progressive/anti-American/Communist/Socialist Jews they can find and kiss their asses. But they DO NOT REPRESENT ME!
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:00pmI hope the Jewish Voting Block shoves this right up some Liberal White House Pundits Arse!!!!
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:47pmIt is not the jewish voters he needs to be afraid of, but God almighty.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:53pm“Does enlisting prime movers in the Jewish community to serve as White House mouthpieces seem manipulative to you?”
No.
“Are Obama’s Jewish supporters prepared to abandon Israel by spinning a positive Obama administration narrative, even though the administration’s history regarding Israel may not in fact positive?”
First of all there are many Jews that do not agree with Israel’s decisions. My rabbi has spoken out about Israel’s “more harm than good” occupation of Palestinian territory numerous times. Secondly, any derived positive is not necessarily “spun”, it could just as easily be observed.
“It makes one wonder: are Obama’s Jewish — supposedly pro-Israel — supporters willing to see him re-elected at any and all cost?”
Where does this question come from? Are Palin followers – supposedly pro-America – willing to see her elected and any and all cost? Probably… don’t make supporting a standing president (or president elect as my example shows) sound sinister.
This is not a News article this is terribly written piece of speculative commentary on an otherwise tame current event. Grow up.
Report Post »vincere vel mori
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:46pmDesperate thinking coming from an ever increasingly desperate administration. They know they are in trouble, their record sucks, they have nothing to run on, they have no message. Start packing your bags obumer, you are about to be evicted.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:56pm@vincere vel mori
Report Post »Posted on July 5, 2011 at 3:46pm
‘Desperate thinking coming from an ever increasingly desperate administration. Start packing your bags obumer, you are about to be evicted.’
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Memento Mori, it is you who will be desperate come November 2012. Even if the President does not win the 2012 election, it will be Mitt Romney who wins, and therefore civilized, humane, and competent behavior will remain in place in the White House. Either way—you tea party trash lose.
Czar Casm
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 4:01pmObama: ah, er, my Jewish friends, I, ah got something I need you to do.
Jewish friends: SHOW ME THE MONEY!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:26amMany Jews would like to see Allen West become our next president, and for darn good reason… He thinks it is our duty to help them survive and protect them. It just so happens, so do I.
Give the left a giant middle finger. Help us draft Allen West…
Report Post »http://www.AMillionGoWest.com
cherigc
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:42amANY Jew who supports this traitor should burn in hell. Many of my Jewish friends tht voted for Obama appologized to me. If anyone cared to do any research at all they would discover ALL his friends are ANTI Jewish and the only Jews he has by his side are PAID WHORES~!!!!
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 12:27pmThis story is 100 x more important than Casey Anthony. Pass this story on to Facebook or Twitter.
Obama is going to twit today? Do you really care?
This is a total set up. He will only answer what his team twits to Him or all fiendly Twits from Black folk who still can’t see what a Nightmear this President is.
Report Post »elderdragon
Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:53pmManipulating public opinion is something the Elites have been doing for years. See, for instance, the academic support for the creation of the Federal Reserve, which was carefully planned and very well orchestrated by JP Morgan and others.
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