Barack Obama: The Jewish Connection

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Ask about Barack Obama’s natural constituencies, and you might hear that he’s the first black with a viable shot at the White House; or about his Kenyan father and his childhood in Indonesia; or the youthfulness of his followers; or the millions of Oprah junkies swooning over his candidacy. What you might not hear is that the Illinois senator, who made history Thursday by winning the Democratic caucus in Iowa, has made Jewish leaders an early stop at every stage in his political career.

In his first run for the Illinois Senate in 1996, he sought the backing of Alan Solow, a top Chicago lawyer. Eight years later, running for the U.S. Senate — long before he became the shoo-in, when he was running in a Democratic field packed with a dozen candidates, including some Jews — one of his first meetings was with Robert Schrayer, a top Jewish philanthropist in Chicago.

When he launched his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in late 2006, he named as his fund-raising chief Alan Solomont, the Boston Jewish philanthropist who helped shepherd Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to the Democratic candidacy in 2004.

And he chose a gathering of the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, last March to deliver his presidential candidacy’s first foreign policy speech.

“Some of my earliest and most ardent supporters came from the Jewish community in Chicago,” Obama told JTA in 2004, after his keynote speech galvanized the Democratic convention in Boston. (…Full Article)

 
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Ron Paul Campaign Manager: We Are About To Go Into Orbit

Assures supporters that the Ron Paul Revolution is going the distance

By Steve Watson

Ron Paul’s presidential campaign manager Kent Snyder has expressed encouragement and optimism following yesterday’s Iowa caucus and urged supporters to take pride in the achievements made so far.

Statewide, the caucus placed Ron Paul at 10%, just three points behind both Fred Thompson and John McCain and well ahead of Rudy Giuliani in the race for the GOP nomination.

Further breakdown of the results revealed that in the 23 Eastern most counties in Iowa which include the college town of Iowa City and the counties north, south and east of Iowa City, Ron Paul scored an impressive 14% - or third place.

Dr Paul was also the big favorite among independent voters, of which there are many more in the state of New Hampshire than Iowa.

Mr Snyder, commenting on the Alex Jones show earlier today, reminded listeners that just months ago Ron Paul was a complete unknown in Iowa, likening the rapid progress made to a rocket going into orbit:

“I would like your listeners to know that this is simply the beginning. Keep in mind that Dr Paul when we started this whole enterprise in Iowa was at 0 to 1% in all polls, and we have made substantial progress.

People have to understand, and I have to remind myself as well that it is always harder to go from zero to ten than it is to go from ten to twenty. It’s like the space shuttle, it uses 80/90% of its fuel just to get out of the atmosphere.” (…Full Article)

 
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