Brett Lieberman
By Brett Lieberman
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News Obama Spokeman Takes Sean Hannity to Task for Anti-Semitic Guest
After the debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs and Fox’s Sean Hannity played the guilt by association game. Gibbs asked the Fox host whether he was anti-Semitic for having Andy Martin on his show.
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News RNC Criticizes Obama Grant to Rabbi/Relative
The latest Republican attack line on Barack Obama involves a rabbi. The Republican National Committee is circulating a news release this morning calling the Democratic presidential nominee to task for awarding $75,000 in grants to a social service agency lead by his wife’s cousin, Rabbi Capers Funnye. The grants – $50,000 for adult literacy and…
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News Jewish Mom Hopes to Set the Record Straight on Obama Rumors
There’s Jews for Obama, Rabbis for Obama, and now in the seemingly never-ending quest to address every possible demographic, there’s Jewish Moms for Obama. More specifically, it’s an Orthodox Jewish mom, who lived in Israel during the Second Intifada and the start of the Iraq War and now lives in Cambridge, Mass. with her husband…
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News Poll From Before Debates Shows Obama With Narrowing Lead Among Jews
Washington — Polling American Jewish voters, who are a tiny percentage of the overall population, is frequently compared to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Since it would cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to randomly call homes to find enough Jewish voters for a scientific survey, most polls compromise in some…
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News Kirk Pollster Disputes Daily Kos Poll Showing Incumbent Vulnerable
UPDATED: Congressman Mark Kirk’s pollster is calling a poll commissioned by the liberal Daily Kos blog flawed. The poll of the district with a large bloc of Jewish voters north of Chicago showed Kirk, A Republican, leading Democrat Dan Seals 44 percent to 38 percent among 400 voters surveyed. The poll had a 5 percent…
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News Did Obama Backers Distort Israelis’ Comments?
Several former Israeli Defense Forces and Mossad officials are saying that the pro-Obama group Jewish Council for Education & Research used their comments out of context and made the Israeli officials sound as though they were endorsing or supporting the Democratic presidential candidate. “It’s not only misleading, it was an interview about what the next…
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News Obama Warns Against Bigotry After Austrian Election Results
Weighing in on the recent elections in Austria, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called for tolerance. Obama’s campaign released this statement on Sunday: “I am very concerned about last Sunday’s election results in Austria, in which two openly xenophobic far-right parties won nearly thirty percent of the vote. Extremism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism offend our most…
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News Lieberman Predicts Record Jewish Vote for Republicans
Republicans will garner more support from the Jewish community than at any time since the Great Depression – surpassing the 39 percent of the Jewish vote that Ronald Reagan won in 1980, U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., is predicting. The 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who was on Republican John McCain’s shortlist for this year’s…
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