I sent this letter to the Boston Herald on June 8. Unfortunately, they declined to print it. Although I wasn’t reading the entire paper every single day around that time, I don’t recall the Herald printing a single letter, column or article defending the Obamas against the attacks on them for their “date night” in New York City. Shame on the Herald.
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Voted
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Some day I would like to be the first ballot counted by the machine on Election Day, but alas, with five kids in the house, I doubt that day will come for a while 
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I was up before 5am — couldn’t sleep. Got the kids up at 6:15. Got breakfast and lunches made and packed up and out the door by 6:45am. Got to the polls before 7:00; there was already a line. My wife and I were the 22nd and 23rd ballots through the machine, and the line was longer when we left than when we went in.
One of the poll workers made me zip up my jacket to cover my Obama-Biden shirt, “Yes we can!” pin, and “JewsForObama.com” pin. Go figure.
Reports are coming in from all over the place that turnout at the polls is like no one has ever seen before. Finally, the fine citizens of the United States of America are going to reject the politics of hate and divisiveness that have ruled for far too long, and elect a president who can bring this country together and start fixing all the things that the demagogues have broken.
Yesterday was my son’s first birthday, and today is his grandfather’s birthday. What a great birthday present this will be!
(And my son took his first unassisted steps on Sunday, one day before the deadline set by his demanding father. )
“Jewish Mother for Obama”
Monday, October 6th, 2008This moving pro-Obama video testimonial is by Janette Hillis-Jaffe, an Orthodox Jew living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hillis-Jaffe was so offended by the anti-Obama smears being circulated in the Jewish community, that she felt compelled to respond by making this video. Some excerpts:
I’m a Jewish Mother… so I worry! There was a time when I had a lot to worry about. You see, we lived in Jerusalem for four years during the peak of the Second Intifada…
I don’t want any Israeli to have to live like that anymore…
So because I love America, and because I pray for Israel’s security and peace every day, I’m going to vote for Barack Obama in November. I hope you will too!
Watch the video, then forward it to all your friends, especially those who still have doubts about Obama!
REGISTER TO VOTE!
Monday, October 6th, 2008Prohibited from participating in Allston Village Street Fair
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Several weeks ago, I contacted Joan Pasquale, the executive director of the Parents and Community Build Group (PCBG), to inquire about the possibility of volunteers for the Obama campaign running a voter registration table at the fair.
Awesome McCain flip-flop fact sheet from the NJDC
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008The National Jewish Democratic Council just released an awesome fact sheet on some of McCain’s biggest flip-flops.
Read or link to it here:
http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2008/07/senator-mccain.html
Digg it here:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_flip_flop_fact_sheet
This is powerful stuff!
Ted Belman and the anti-Obama Smear Machine
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Right-wing pro-Israel blogger Ted Belman has recently embarrassed himself by joining the stampede of conservative Republicans so desperate to keep Senator Barack Obama out of the White House that they’ll say just about anything to scare people out of voting for him.
Make no mistake, Belman and his ilk are scared. The smear tactics which worked so well against John Kerry in 2004 just don’t seem to be working on Obama. So, what’ an ideologue to do? The answer, apparently, is to take a gaggle of absurd accusations against Obama, combine them into a hastily written hodgepodge of rumor and innuendo, and throw them out into the blogosphere in the hope that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Here’s what the smear-mongers want you to believe:
Saving Hillary Clinton
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008March 25, 2008
Dear Hillary,
When it comes right down to it, there’s only one thing that could save your chances of winning the nomination. For you to defeat Barack Obama, something colossally bad needs to happen to his campaign. We’re not talking “bad” like tenuous links to a corrupt entrepeneur — Tony Rezko hasn’t even blipped Obama’s poll numbers. We’re not talking “bad” like offensive sound bites from his pastor — Obama overcame Wright-gate in a week. We’re talking really bad, a Big Scandal, like dead bodies buried in his basement or thousands in unmarked bills stashed in his freezer.
You’re certainly smart enough to realize this, so I’m sure you’ve got your people digging, digging, digging to find the Big Scandal. But the odds of finding one are low, and you’re smart enough to realize this as well. I hope you won’t mind if I offer you some advice for what to do while waiting for it to turn up?
Do you want another liar President?
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008The thing I respect most about Barack Obama’s campaign for president is his honesty. He is a man who says what he means and means what he says, and that’s as refreshing to me as showering with Irish Spring.
I also deeply respect how Obama has kept his campaign positive despite the undeniable provocation to sling mud from both Clinton and McCain.
Obama has stated publicly, “Senator Clinton is smart, she is capable, she is tenacious. She would be a vast improvement over the status quo.” I agree with that. I’ve tried very hard not to make any negative comments about Clinton, because although she seems hell-bent on tanking the Democratic party’s chances of taking the White House if she isn’t the nominee (c.f., her repeated public statements that McCain would be better on foreign policy than Obama), I want either Clinton or Obama in office a heck of a lot more than I want McCain. You can be sure that if Clinton is the nominee in November, I will vote for her.
However, right now we aren’t choosing between Clinton or Obama and McCain, we’re choosing between Clinton and Obama. And the question I ask is, quite simply, do you want another liar in the White House?
Clinton claims that she always opposed NAFTA. Recently released records from the National Archives, as well as the public statements of people who were involved on both sides of the NAFTA fight, prove that she is lying.
To support her claim of foreign policy experience superior to Obama’s, Clinton has told a story about traveling to Bosnia for her husband and being subjected to sniper fire upon her arrival there. Publicly available evidence proves that she is lying.
As a bonus, not exactly a lie but certainly indicative of the tenor of Clinton’s campaign, James Carville, one of her advisers, has publicly compared Governor Richardson’s endorsement of Obama to Judas’s betrayal of Jesus.
Clinton is smart. She is capable. She is tenacious. She is also a lying, manipulative person who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. She has that in common with all too many of her fellow politicians, and this is why she cannot bring real change to our country. Barack Obama can, and Barack Obama is our future.
