Ahmadinejad Endorses Obama

In a stunning development, Ahmadinejad endorsed Obama this week. As the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday:

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad weighed in on the US presidential election today, noting that only one of the candidates supports restoring diplomatic contact with Iran. In response to a question from an American student about whether he supports Democratic nominee Barack Obama or Republican John McCain, Ahmadinejad did not explicitly name Obama but said: “The American government 28 years ago decided on its own to cut its ties with Iran . . .We do prefer to have relations, whereas one of the candidates in this election would prefer that.”

Are you kidding me? Obama has now been endorsed by Ahmadinejad, Hamas and Farrakhan. Obviously, Obama cannot control who endorses him. Nevertheless, the fact that the world's most prominent Jew haters prefer Obama is certainly indicative of whether Obama will be "good for the Jews."

How can this willful blindness of American Jews be explained? I know there is a long history of Jewish identification with the Democratic Party, but that argument proves too much. After all, Reagan received nearly 40% of the Jewish vote in 1980. Fast forward to 2008 and McCain -- an extremely pro-Israel candidate -- cannot dream of getting 40% of the Jewish vote. Incredibly, Jews support Obama, the candidate who favors unconditional negotiations with Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust-denier who has openly stated his intention to "wipe Israel off the map." And don't even get me started on Obama's mentor, Reverend Wright.

In all seriousness, what's going on here?

Shocking Poll: Jews Defecting to McCain in Droves

A shocking new poll shows that Jewish voters in New York prefer McCain over Obama by a margin of 54-32 percent. That is even more remarkable because the last poll showed that New York Jews preferred Obama over McCain by a margin of 55-42 percent. That is a 35-point reversal! More details on the Commentary blog, Contentions.

Is this for real? Are Jews finally waking up to the rather unpleasant scent of anti-Semitism that surrounds Obama? Is Obama's 20-year relationship with the "Zionism is racism" believing, former Nation of Islam member, Rev. Wright, finally catching up to him? Yeah, that's right -- Rev. Wright is former member of the Nation of Islam, as was reported by The New Republic.

To this day, Rev. Wright retains close links with the Nation of Islam. Last year Rev. Wright honored Farrakhan with an award and said Farrakhan "truly epitomized greatness." The Nation of Islam also provides Rev. Wright with bodyguards whenever he appears in public. Bear in mind that the Nation of Islam teaches that whites and Jews are "devils" and were created by a mad scientist named "Yakub."

Or perhaps it was the Hamas endorsement of Obama that finally roused the Jews. The Hamas endorsement makes perfect sense when you consider that Obama was long known in Chicago for his pro-Palestinian views, as Ralph Nader recently acknowledged. To this day, Obama remains friends with Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO spokesman. And if you think this is no big deal, ask yourself why the LA Times recently reported that Palestinians "see a friend in Obama."

So are Jews finally waking up or is this poll merely an outlier? Stay tuned.

Obama's Jewish Lapdog

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla), Obama's Jewish lapdog, certainly has chutzpah. Today Wexler made a big stink about a Jewish Republican organization calling Jewish voters to test why Obama is having problems gaining support in the Jewish community. The questions that were asked, e.g., "would you still vote for Obama if you knew he was endorsed by Hamas?" -- were "reprehensible" said Wexler. Never mind that Hamas actually did endorse Obama.

In a written statement, Wexler said that "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."

Deceitful tactics? Hateful distortions? This is coming from the guy who actually insinuated that Sarah Palin was "a Nazi sympathizer." Hmmm.... proudly displaying an Israeli flag in one's office sure seems like an odd way to express "Nazi sympathies."

Wexler sure is a piece of work. Talk about chutzpah.