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Obama Campaign Withdraws from Jewish Debates

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Just received word from from a reader that the Obama campaign is withdrawing from two Jewish debates:

Claiming they do not like recent RJC [Republican Jewish Coalition] advertisements, the Obama campaign has formally instructed all of its representatives to cancel their scheduled appearances with any representative of the RJC. Former Congressman Mel Levine (CA) yesterday informed the Valley Cities Jewish Community Center that he would no longer show up for his scheduled debate this Sunday against RJC California Director Larry Greenfield. State Representative Josh Shapiro (PA) informed Temple Sinai that he would not participate in a forum with RJC Philadelphia Director Scott Feigelstein.

RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks asks, “What is the Obama campaign afraid of? Why is the Obama campaign afraid to have this conversation?”

I guess the Obama campaign is afraid to confront the concerns of American Jews, many of whom are wary about a candidate who one day tells a pro-Israeli group that Jerusalem must remain undivided, only to retract his statement the next.

Pro-Obama bloggers and their media cheerleaders have made much of Sarah Palin’s failure to talk to the adversary press. Will they now fault the Obama campaign for avoiding tough questions from Jewish Republicans?

Comments

  1. My guess is that they are afraid they might confront Obama about sitting in the church while The Right Reverend Wright spewed his anti-semitic remarks …………..that he didn’t hear. Or, he could be concerned about the support that he is receiving from the anti-semite Louis Farrakan who believes that Obama is the Messiah.

  2. As usual, the Obamunists run when having to encounter a tough audience.

    Just my observation on the state of the race: Depiste all the Demos gleeful confidence, and lots of resignation on the right, I think the race has just changed, and changed dramatically.

    Last night’s debate did not present John McCain in a good light, but he did manage to make taxes and the economy the primary issue between now and the election. As is often the case in Presidential debates, the seemingly obvious winner ends up being the loser. I think the public and especially the undecideds are beginning to pay attention. Unfortunately for Obama, they happened to start paying attention just as he made his “spread the wealth around” comment to “Joe the Plumber”. Try as the left might to discredit this man, they cannot change Obama’s answer and it has received national attention, and it is certainly his response, rather the citizen questioner, that is the issue here.

    When I see Gallop having McCain within 2 points among likely voters, something is happening here. Despite the entire MSM being in the tank for Obama they cannot convince the American people to buy into him. At this date I’m beginning to believe its too late to close the sale. With 13% still undecided I think we are beginning to see the break that will manifest itself within about 2 weeks, and it will not be for Obama.

    Within my own family, the two Democratic women, both Hillary fans, are voting Republican for the first time in their lives. Here in the town of Dublin, basically evenly split but tending Democratic, there are plenty of lawn signs for local Demo candidates, but not a one that I’ve seen for Obama, unlike ’04 when there were plenty of Kerry signs (he carried Dublin 51/49 in ’04.

    I could be way off base here, but I’ve generally had pretty good instincts in these things, and my instincts tell me that we are going to see the biggest upset of my life come election day.

  7. Thanks Dan – you rock!
    For those of you who want the skinny on Obomb
    go to http://www.obamajews.com. For another great site go to
    bhoskeletons.com (we are giving costume prizes). It is not easy sticking to our principles when our friends and families are usually on the opposite side of the issues.
    We must keep chipping away at the far left – for all of their promises, all they will do is redistribute wealth. NAZI was national Socialist Party, not the facist party. Just some scary stuff out there!