This Pro-choice Jewish Democrat is for McCain
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, The American Thinker, October 29, 2008
When PBS asked me to do an interview for a television newsweekly because I am a Jew supporting McCain, I didn’t hesitate to say yes. PBS’s left wing bias is legendary. I thought it likely the interview would be edited to make me look like a Jew with compromised allegiance to the US, and not even a “real Jew” at that because I fail to see Judaism as the religion of “Tikkun Olam.”
But I thought I had something valuable to say about why I, a liberal Jewish woman Democrat whose primary issue prior to 9/11 was reproductive rights, now believe the McCain/Palin ticket is better for the US, better for the West, better for Israel and better for Jews than is Obama/Biden. This characterization of me made it on air, but none of my substantive reasons did.
Here’s what was left out.
After 9/11 I slowly realized that we damn well better listen when people say they are going to kill us because their religion requires it, and they are actually acquiring the means to do just that on a mass scale, and while that production is underway they are doing it, just more slowly than they’d like.
I now know that defeating global terrorism is the single most important issue of our time. It is more important than global warming, than welfare reform, than stem cell research, even than reproductive rights. And that’s because none of those issues can be addressed if we’ve been subjugated to Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. As I said to the PBS interviewer but what was edited out, “my daughters won’t have reproductive or many other rights if they are dead or burka’ed.” (Continue Reading this Article)
Country first? This here Jew is not so much for McCain:
John McCain was something of a “stud” as a young man, a prototype for Tom Cruise in Top Gun. He married a pretty model. She got injured in an auto accident, and he divorced her for his trophy wife: a hottie twenty years his junior who brought a $100 million dowry to the marriage bed.
If I were a cynic (!), I would predict that McCain would foster policies that would allow him to keep his $100 million (and seven houses) and pass it on to his kids. He would be in favor of tax cuts for the rich, low taxes on capital gains, and low death taxes. And he would instantly abandon his election campaign and the debates to rush back to Washington to make sure the taxpayer bailout protected his savings and investments.
Don’t any of you guys get it? The Republicans and the Democrats both suck equally. McCain is not the “lesser of two evils”. They both represent two sides of the same coin. The reason Obama has so much money is that the fix is already in. The greedy rich guys who own America have already guaranteed that whoever wins, the one constant is that the rich will get richer.
If McCain somehow won (virtually impossible), then we would have a gridlocked government with a Republican President and a Democratic Congress.
Since the Republicans over the last eight years have brought America to the brink of destruction, then why not elect a Democrat President and a Democrat Congress, and let them finish the job of turning America into a third world nation with a large permanent underclass, a small shrinking middle class, and a ruling plutocracy of the super-rich? It’s for sure coming, sooner or later, one way or the other.
I rest my case.
Comment by Samuel Fistel — October 29, 2008 @ 10:00 am
Samuel Fistel should ask himself “Who do I trust with my life?”, and whether he can bear to see the end of Israel as a Jewish state. I rest my case.
Comment by Birdalone — October 29, 2008 @ 11:28 am
When Obama gets elected you will probably get your wish. We will become a socialist country and a third world country destined to require Arabic as our National language. The young university students have not learned to be patriots, but to be anti-patriots. The strong cultures of our past are deminishing by the day and in a very short order, will dissappear for ever. This is truly a shame.
Comment by Ed D — October 29, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
Sam Fistel, you are probably going to get your wish when Obama takes office. This wonderful country is going to slide into Socialism and into a third world country. The leftist university professors are teaching our youth to be anti-patriotic which will throw this country’s population into devisiveness which may never be able to rectify. Make sure your passports are up to date and you learn to speak Arabic.
Comment by Ed D — October 29, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
Yup, Birdalone,
Asking someone what he/she would do if “it” happened to themselves or their families is often an argument stopper. Most such arguments are based on bad things happening to “other” people, often people “who deserved it.” In other words these arguments are fundamentally hypocritical.
When the prospect of “it” happening to your mother or your son or your wife or even yourself, the hypocritical mask of intellectual superiority tends to slip a little.
Whether or not Palin bought $150000 worth of clothes, or whether she’s “stupid” won’t matter one little bit when the bullet (choose your weapon) is heading straight for any of the above.
Comment by keelie — October 29, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
Should be “When the prospect of “it” happening to your mother or your son or your wife or even yourself is seriously considered, or even imminent…”
Sorry.
Comment by keelie — October 29, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
Sheppard Smith Takes On Joe the Plumber…
Sheppard: Why specifically is a vote for Obama a vote for the death of Israel?
Joe: Well specifically, look at his record. Obama’s agreed to meet with Israel’s enemies with no uncertain terms.. In fact he’s letting them dictate terms…
Trackback by Prose Before Hos — October 29, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
I trust neither and anyone who chooses on that basis will surely pick the wrong guy. I think for we Jews at least it is a lose lose proposition either way. I do think that sometimes seeming bad choices turn out in the long run to be good choices based on end results. History is never linear, nor follows anyones preconceived beliefs in how it will enfold. The age of Prophesy is dead and long past. Total Crap Shoot.
Comment by yamit82 — October 30, 2008 @ 5:07 am