Baffling

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“Seventy-eight percent of American Jewish voters cast their ballots for Senator Barack Obama on November 4. Obama, who boasted the most liberal voting record in the Senate, has never distinguished himself as a firm supporter of Israel. For instance, he opposed the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment that called on the State Department to place Iran's Revolutionary Guards on its list of international terrorist organizations.”

“More than anything else, the willingness of American Jews to believe Obama is pro-Israel shows they simply didn't care that much. If they had cared, they would have scrutinized Obama's alarming connections at least as carefully as they attacked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for her anti-abortion views. They would have wondered what it means that Obama spent twenty years of his life in the pews of a deeply anti-Semitic church.”

“Today Israel is threatened with annihilation and the U.S. Jewish community is suffering from more blatant and organized anti-Semitic attacks than it has seen in the past fifty years.” — Caroline Glick

Next to the 95% support President-elect Obama received from African Americans, the highest percentage support he received from any other demographic was the 78% from Jewish Americans. The former is not surprising; the latter is baffling. My hope is that as President he will vindicate the blind faith that 4 of 5 Jewish Americans have expressed that while his Pastor Wright lit-up the congregation with anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, Obama didn't inhale any of the venom.