Wednesday, September 17, 2008
So says a new series of ads from the Republican Jewish Coalition:
...The new ad highlights an endorsement of Senator Barack Obama's Israel and Middle East views by commentator Pat Buchanan. Buchanan said on MSNBC:
Let me say about Israel here. My position on Israel is frankly awful. It is like Mika [Brzezinski]'s father's, it's a lot closer to Barack Obama's than it is John McCain. I think Barack is right, we ought to talk to the Iranians, he's right to oppose the war and, frankly, he's right to say the Palestinian people have got a terrible deal over there and their suffering ought to be recognized. That's Obama's position. It's my position. I don't think it is a Nazi position. (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Buchanan_hugs_Obama.html, 9/2/08)
"By no means does the RJC infer from this quote that Barack Obama supports the views of Patrick Buchanan. Rather, we are highlighting the fact that Buchanan believes that his views are in line with Obama's on the critical issues of Israel and Iran," said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks. "Because Pat Buchanan shares Obama's views on Iran and Israel, how comfortable can the Jewish community be with those positions?" Brooks added.
This is quite a boomerang in the side of the head for Congressman Robert Wexler who was out earlier accusing Sarah Palin of supporting the "Nazi sympathizer" Buchanan. Wexler is also quote in this article at Politico, GOP group behind negative Obama poll:
..."The fact that the Republican Jewish Coalition is targeting Jewish Americans with these disgraceful and deceitful tactics fits in perfectly with the dishonorable campaign that John McCain has chosen to run. Peddling lies and hateful distortions to scare Jewish voters is reprehensible and deeply disrespectful to Jewish Americans," said Florida Congressman Robert Wexler, an Obama supporter...
Wexler is this season's appointed Jewish attack dog and smear merchant. The trouble with his statement is that, as far as I can tell from Ben Smith's Politico article -- and Smith does his level best to let Obama off the hook and turns things around on the RJC -- there are no lies in the poll...push or not. Obama's shifts (and I'm happy for them, though I think they are superficial at best) have come though the necessities of national politics, and even that hasn't saved him from making a series of errors through his choice of advisers.
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