Seriously, please tell me why. I am actually physically ill right now with the copious amount of articles I can find with Jews supporting McCain/Palin and their disgusting ways. I am having considerably more trouble finding Jews for Obama type articles.
Maybe I am looking in the wrong places? I go to Chabad. It’s an ultra-orthodox shul. I am not ultra-orthodox, but they accept us, and we can’t afford to go to the reform shul. So SuperJew it is!
Why is SuperJew so incredibly not… super? Why is SuperJew anti-abortion, even when it’s rape? Why is SupoerJew up McCain’s ass?
I cannot find a single thing I agree with McCain/Palin on. Not a one.
I like to think I am a good Jew. I might not be as Jew-y as SuperJew, but the Torah teaches us there is no such thing as a bad Jew. The Torah teaches us love, compassion, understanding, and so many more things, I just cannot understand why SuperJew wants to keep so many of my friends from being married, wants to force women who have been raped (possibly by family!) from having abortions, wants to keep women who might die if they carry a child from abortion. Why does SuperJew want the shackles of religion controlling the government? If God is in charge of the US, can we start taxing God? Can we start repealing the commandments? We’ll take them, one at a time, to the supreme court. I bet if we get the right judge and jury we can have them repealed too, right along side Roe. Vs. Wade and so many other long standing, landmark cases, as well as some newer ones.
I google Jews & Obama. These gems are the first few entries:
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/
http://jews4barack.com/mythfacts/?page_id=40
I am not even linking the creepy articles I’ve seen. Oh, sure I will. To get a good idea of how they think, read this one. Want satire? Try this.
Now before you think wrongly of me… I love being Jewish. I love the tradition. I love the comfort it brings me when I really need it and I love the freedom it allows me when I don’t. It is not my be-all end-all. It can’t be, because if there is a God, and s/he controls everything… I just don’t want to know. Too many things have gone wrong for me to be willing ot believe that. That said, I also do a lot of things that go against the teachings of the Torah. And that is OK by me, because I am not out to be SuperJew and I am not yet willing to devote my life to those teachings. Maybe I’ll never be. Maybe in another lifetime.
It frightens me just how many people are supporting McCain/Palin because they are “down home people” (they aren’t, he married money and she’s a gun-toting hockey mom in charge of a population smaller than the bottom half of Manhatten, nothing against guns or hockey, but not my image of a VP) and I wonder how many trully believe what they stand for… or even know.
I may not exactly be “for” Obama… but I am most definitely again McCain. I am not afraid of genuine, positive change. Change that I think Obama can start (and maybe see finish!) and that I know McCain will not even consider, and will start us in reverse. We certainly don’t need another four years of the Bush administration (or worse!), why elect someone hwo will be more of the same? Sure, the same might be comforting and familiar, but what have you been complaining about for the past eight years? SuperJew, it’s up to you to help do something different, and I have faith that come November 4, you will do the right thing, not choose blindly because it feels safe and familiar.
A clear majority of American Jews, including me, support Obama over McCain.
You see a huge amount of noise on-line from the Jewish minority that supports McCain for the same reason that you see a huge amount of noise on-line from the non-Jewish minority that supports McCain… The right-wingers fit the “true believer” mode more than the left-wingers and moderates, and that means that they are more committed to “spreading the word” about why they’re right.
Also, the Republican strategy for winning elections is to overwhelm the populace with their message, true or not, in the hope that it sticks.
Frankly, the Republican propagandists are more organized and more experienced than the Democrats are at getting their message out.
Don’t dismay, though, because we are getting the message out, and we will win in November.
Rather than worrying about this, find something productive to do to help Obama win the election! Register at My.BarackObama.com, make phone calls, do door-to-door canvassing, travel to a battleground state and register voters, donate money to the campaign, etc.
Maybe you’re only Jew-ish?
(Sorry, I couldn’t help it.)
Judaism has had its “drift” just like Catholicism and just about every other major religion. I’m pretty sure Muhammad didn’t start out saying, “Oh, yeah, and I want you to blow yourself up to get rid of at least one capitalist, even if you take out fourteen of our own people at the same time. Virgins for everyone!”
Any religion is meant as a guideline for practice, but your faith is your own.
(Upon reflection, maybe it’s the “Joe Lieberman” cooties that’s attracting them…)