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A pro-McCain letter e-mailed to Pennsylvania Jews suggested that a vote for Barack Obama could bring another Holocaust.
Pennsylvania Democrats are calling on U.S. Sen. John McCain’s campaign to disavow the letter from the state Republican Party’s “Victory 2008” committee.
The letter, which reportedly was sent to 75,000 Jews, was signed by three prominent Jewish Republicans, including Sandra Schultz Newman, a former state Supreme Court justice, and I. Michael Coslov, the campaign chairman of the Philadelphia Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
With the election campaign drawing to a close, outreach to Jewish voters has intensified across Pennsylvania, a state the McCain camp has said he needs to win if he has any chance of capturing the White House.
The e-mail, after extolling McCain’s record and questioning U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s commitment to Israel — as well as his associations with William Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — says that “Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake. Let’s not make a similar one this year.”
State Rep. Josh Shapiro, an early backer of Obama who has taken the lead in Jewish outreach across the state, called the letter “absolutely abhorrent” and “scurrilous.” Invoking the Holocaust “went far over the line,” he said.
Other media focused more on the factual inaccuracies of the letter, including a statement that Obama, when he was a community organizer, had trained ACORN, a community organizing group, “to commit voter registration fraud.”
Michael Barley, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Republican Party, told The New York Times that the e-mail “definitely went a little bit farther than the facts would support” and that the political operative who composed it had been fired.
In the Philadelphia Jewish community, there appeared to be much consternation over the fact that Coslov signed on to the letter. Coslov is widely assumed to become the next federation president.
Some community leaders who are active Democrats called the letter “despicable.” Republican partisans tended to brush it off as “politics as usual.”
Coslov could not immediately be reached for comment, but the current president, Leonard Barrack, said the federation by-laws only prohibited the CEO and the president from engaging in partisan political activity. For anyone else, he said, “it’s a matter of people using their own discretion.”
All I can say is that i’m glad that Arlen Specter wasn’t willing to sign such a piece of trash.
These are the type of people that will be on my ‘congressional crooks’ list that I’m forming.
This is the TYPE of person that I don’t mind ‘grouping’ because THEY do not deserve to be in our Government! :flush:
@GamTrak 182954 wrote:
These are the type of people that will be on my ‘congressional crooks’ list that I’m forming.
This is the TYPE of person that I don’t mind ‘grouping’ because THEY do not deserve to be in our Government! :flush:
Make sure you leave at least two politions so we have a goverment left
@allfreechips 183018 wrote:
Make sure you leave at least two politions so we have a goverment left
Maybe during this last week
can you make a reply
to MY posts that is a
contribution to the topic
and not just another jab?Last I checked I was allowed to express my opinion (whether you like it or not) so give it a rest!
hehe (I’m PMS’ing so i’m giving you fair waring). :roflmao:
can you name more than two that are not crooks? was not a partisan jab, was a complete Jab on out goverment all together. Lighten up only a few more days to go!
