Things some Jews are telling me

Notice I said some Jews. I haven't spoken to all of them yet....

Some Jews I know are telling me that they will not vote for Barack Obama because he is "a Muslim". When I explained to my Semitic friends that Obama is not a Muslim but a Christian, one of them replied, "Well, his father was a Muslim, so he is a Muslim". She also said that she "just can't trust him". I replied, "Oh, you mean he's black." She protested but couldn't explain to me why she didn't trust him. Another Jewish friend then went on to tell me that she could not vote for Obama because he would "go against Israel". I responded that going against Israel isn 't part of the Democratic platform, and that it would be political suicide if any US President went against Israel. The first woman then said,"I've got to see who they tell me to vote for when I go to temple." Wow. This just confirms my theory that most people do not want the responsibility that comes along with being free. There are some who want to be told what to do because it relieves them of the responsibility of having to think and make a decision. (Thinking and deciding is scary!) This friend also told me that she "really likes this Sarah Palin." When I asked which of her positions she agreed with, she replied, " I don't know, she's got kids, she takes them to work, I like that." My fellow-traveler Liberal friend then began peppering her with issues-based questions like: "Do you know Sara Palin wants to ban abortion in all forms? Do you know that she is against gay rights? Do you know that as Governor of Alaska, she made rape victims pay for their own rape kits?" Of course the response was "No" to all of these questions. And then, dead silence. It happens like that every time. I am losing friends all over the place.

This all points to the fact that the McCain/Palin ticket has a very good chance of winning this election. People in this country know very little about the issues that affect their lives. They vote for candidates because they think their children are cute, or because they say macho things about our enemies, or because they think they will protect us from some invisible enemy, or because they scream slogans like"drill, baby, drill". Mostly, though, people cast their votes out of fear. Remember, George Bush was (s)elected in 2000 mostly because people felt he was a guy they could have a beer with. Hey, he probably was. He just can't run the fucking country. In 2004, we elected Bush again out of fear that if we did not, the limp-wristed Democratic candidate John Kerry would allow the terrorists to set off nuclear weapons in the middle of New York City. By the way, remember how they bashed Kerry for windsurfing? Have you ever tried to windsurf? Most of us wouldn't last two minutes on one of those things. You need to be quite athletic to use one of those things. And yet, the Right portrayed Kerry as a gay, wine-swilling Francophile who sold secrets to the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war. So, out of fear, we elected the boy king again. Now we find through Bob Woodward that the macho Bush has become despondent over the way the Iraq war has gone and has given over control to underlings because he can't hack it. What a wimp...

My Jewish friends need to find their strength and vote for Obama. Stop letting fear rule the day. After all, your people survived the diaspora, the Roman Empire, the Holocaust and all those shitty Adam Sandler movies. I guess what I'm trying to say is, "Hey, Jews, put a brother in the White House" (and not just to clean it).