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An Open Letter to the Jewish Community:

Seven Jewish U.S. Senators Write Letter On Obama/Muslim Smears. All the candidates if they have any class should support this letter in public.

Over the past several weeks, many in the Jewish community have received hateful emails that use falsehood and innuendo about Senator Barack Obama’s religion and attack him personally. As Jewish United States Senators who have not endorsed a candidate for the Democratic nomination, we condemn these scurrilous attacks.

We find it particularly abhorrent that these attacks arc apparently being sent specifically to the Jewish Community. Jews, who have historically been the target of such attacks, should be the first to reject these tactics.

We won’t dignify these falsehoods by repeating them in order to refute them. Instead, we will express our outrage at these tactics, which are being used to demonize a good and
decent man and our friend and colleague. Attempting to manipulate voters into supporting or opposing one candidate or another based on despicable and fictitious attacks is disgraceful. These false and malicious attacks should not be part of our political discourse.

All voters should support whichever candidate they believe would make the best president. We sincerely hope that Americans will make that decision based on the factual records of these candidates, not false charges circulated by anonymous mass emails.

Sincerely,

Carl Levin

Barbara Boxer

Ben Cardin

Russ Feingold

Frank Lautenberg

Bernie Sanders

Ron Wyden

Posted by JohnKonop on Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 1:12 am | under Uncategorized | |RSS 2.0 feed | Comments and pings closed. |

9 Responses to “An Open Letter to the Jewish Community:”

  1. JohnKonop Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 11:27 am

    Obama sets record straight on his religion

    Presidential candidate battles misconception that he’s a Muslim

    Barack Obama is stepping up his effort to correct the misconception that he’s a Muslim now that the presidential campaign has hit the Bible Belt.

    At a rally to kick off a weeklong campaign for the South Carolina primary, Obama tried to set the record straight from an attack circulating widely on the Internet that is designed to play into prejudices against Muslims and fears of terrorism.

    “I’ve been to the same church _ the same Christian church _ for almost 20 years,” Obama said, stressing the word Christian and drawing cheers from the faithful in reply. “I was sworn in with my hand on the family Bible. Whenever I’m in the United States Senate, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. So if you get some silly e-mail … send it back to whoever sent it and tell them this is all crazy. Educate.”

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  2. Joe Oliva Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    What happened to our great Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer?

  3. Joe Oliva Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    I guess we leave out Joe Lieberman since he is now an “independent”.

  4. Bill Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    It looks like a good thing here. And contrary to popular belief there’s plenty of folks here on the right who never “took the bait” by injecting religion into politics at every turn.

  5. Hugh Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Bill,
    Re your post #4: you always forget that it can be more than religion…it can also be ethnicity! I’ll keep reminding you when you forget.

  6. David O'Rear Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Anytime anyone sees a post from racist Hugh, remember . . . the word of the day is EDUCATE!

  7. Hugh Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    Hey David, this one’s for you, as well as Bill and others:

    The propaganda machine works well in Europe, also.

    http://tinyurl.com/2yh76z

  8. Bill Says:
    January 21st, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Hugh
    I’m actually into the “why can’t we all just get along” scenario. But of course I’m for enforcing the border and rule of law and Constitutionalism too. And frankly the “Katrina response” was awful as far as I was concerned. I’m also for “freedom of association” which you can’t have until you get some PALEO-CONSERVATIVES elected.

  9. Hugh Says:
    January 22nd, 2008 at 6:03 am

    Bill, your “why can’t we all just get along” scenario concept can’t work. It’s called “human nature” that gets in the way. Your concept is suicidal for my people!