Washington Jewish Week “gives its nod to Barack Obama for president.”

Aaron Keyak — October 30, 2008 – 6:11 pm | Barack Obama | Election 2008 | Israel | McCain | Stop the Smears Comments (0) Add a comment

Today, Washington Jewish Week endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President.

Their own words:

McCain touts the times that he has bucked his party, yet on many social issues, his stances are pure GOP and the antithesis of the majority of Jewish voters' beliefs.

The next president undoubtedly will make at least one Supreme Court nomination. A McCain conservative court would mean setbacks in, among other things, women's and minority rights, church-state separation and environmental protections.

On Israel, there is no doubt that McCain is a stalwart supporter, but Obama, too, is a strong friend. Need proof? Look at his closest Israel advisers, people like Dennis Ross, Robert Wexler and Daniel Kurtzer, who wouldn't work so hard as his surrogates if they didn't believe his concern for and commitment to the Jewish state were genuine and unshakable. And, despite the Republican Jewish Coalition's misleading screeds to the contrary, both candidates have similar views on the status of Jerusalem.

In a world that has lost respect for the United States in the past eight years, Obama as president has the best chance of gaining renewed trust and respect for our nation.

Click here to read the entire endorsement.

It's worth noting that in this week's Washington Jewish Week readers will see repudiations of RJC's dishonest anti-Obama attack in the newspaper's editorial, letters to the editor page, and a full color NJDC ad on the back page. 

Is RJC listening?

 

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