Florida – Young Jews Urged to Ask Grandparents to Vote for Obama

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    Florida – The Great Schlep is an online campaign urging young U.S. Jews to urge their grandparents in Florida to vote for the Democratic presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the Nov. 4 election against Republican John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin.

    To do so they have enlisted the aid of comedian Sarah Silverman to plea Jews to fly to Florida to visit grandma and grandpa and sell the idea of Obama in the White House to them.

    Florida is seen as one of about 10 closely contested states where the most exciting White House race in a long time will be ultimately decided.  The state has a sizable Jewish population — about five percent of the state’s population by some estimates — and also has a large elderly retiree population.


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    mark levin
    mark levin
    15 years ago

    GEVALD!!!!! What do these people see in Obama??????

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    My grandmother is voting Obama. McCain might be around the same age as her, but Barack is better for her (and the country).

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Is there some reason to explain the different mind of the generation?

    Jacobishtam
    Jacobishtam
    15 years ago

    Before this post, I saw the 5 minute video of Silverman promoting Obama. It reallly is ugly and devoid of any intelligent thought at promoting Obama. I wish that all Mcain supporters would have the same or more passion as the Obama suppoters. Or at least recognize what kind of a war the democrats are waging. All she is trying to do is be provocative and win over the uninformed and ignorant populace. Please counter and tell your grandparents, relatives, friends etc. how much better it will be for jews/Israel and the country if Mcain is elected. Remember, Florida is a swing state. Explain to whomever that this is the first time in American history that not just a liberal is running but also a leftist. (even Clinton was considered a moderate) He is against all the values we jews hold sacred.

    Jews 4 M
    Jews 4 M
    15 years ago

    How can anyone think of voting for Osama??

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

     admin – as the saying goes: If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    iam defently not voting for obama.

    r u serious
    r u serious
    15 years ago

    C’mon you can’t underatand why people would vote for obama ?!
    The GOP have run the country into the ground. The wasted 12 billion a month on getting in the middle of a unwinnable civil war while the U.S. Infrastucture and finance industry collapses. What people in their right mind would reward this party 4 more years. Obama represents change which this country needs.
    I am not going to v ote for hime because of Israel but I am stunned when people fail to understand his popularity.
    And please enough of the barak HUSSIEN obama stuff. You all sound like billy cuningham !! Its stupid shtick.

    Shmilfke
    Shmilfke
    15 years ago

    What is the hava amina to vote for Osama Hussein – sorry, Hussein Obama?
    What, he says hope and change, change and hope all day?

    Babishka
    Member
    Babishka
    15 years ago

    This is a group of people with absolutely no shaichus to Yiddishkeit, who think that using words like “Schlep” makes them Jewish. Any Jew with a scrap of intellect and Yiddishkeit will realize what a disaster Obama is for the Yidden. McCain/Palin!

    ruvainboruch
    ruvainboruch
    15 years ago

    If we elect Senator Barack Obama, Israel will be in a very vulnerable position.
    If you listened to the debate, you heard Senator McCain talk about the need to protect the only true ally we have in the region… Israel…

    Senator Obama really doesn’t care about Israel at all.. he just says enough to appease some Liberal Jews who are happy to hear him say anything.

    Charlie Hall
    Charlie Hall
    15 years ago

    “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain”

    I’ve never been a real conservative, but my politics have moved to the left somewhat as I have become more observant and my learning has increased. The mitzvot that our rabbis decreed should be taught to all prospective converts are leket, shich’chah, peah, and maaser oni, not Shabat and kashrut. Your right to private property is not inherent in the Torah; it exists because the Torah forbids me from taking it from you — but it permits a beit din to declare your property or my property ownerless! And the Torah prohibits a free market for land in Eretz Yisrael, prohibits charging interest on loans to other Jews, and requires remission of some debts at the end of the shemittah cycle. These are not consistent with laissez-faire capitalism!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    obame will finish us financialy with his brainstorm changes

    Shlumpy
    Shlumpy
    15 years ago

    These people wearing Obama yarmullkehs reminds us of the people that wore dinkins yarmulkeh when he was running for mayor of New york city. New Yorkers got riots and years of hell. Is this what you want under an Obama adminitration?

    Obama advisors in the whitehouse would include: Jesse Jackson,Rev Sharpton,Rev Wright, Dinkins,Weesy Jefferson, and Bill Clinton somewhere in the mix. (under a desk?)

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    With the destruction of the Twin Towers a few years behind us, it seems so many have forgotten. To all these people I call out and say “Remember”

    How can you vote for someone who is affiliated with so many questionable people?
    a church filled with hate? a muslim backround! and the list goes on……..

    He doesn’t say that their way of life is wrong, merely he is no longer affiliated!

    What is it going to take to wake you people up? What I know is that McCain is surely an American who has a true love for this country and is not shored up with a bunch of people who hate America!
    The “right” to vote is great, but vote for what is good for your country not for your own pocket!
    Voting for Obama shows the world just how smart we Americans are!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    charlli how can u move to the left when ur more observent. same sex marrige & abortion is not torahdig,all those mitzvos is for jews only & its only in eretz yiruel

    Heshy
    Heshy
    15 years ago

    Many of these young secular Jews who support obama are Jews with no Jewish education. They are brainwashed by the drive by media. But thank G-d for the orthodox Jews who will be voting McCain all the way and are not fooled by liberal left wing self hating Jewish Democrats. When Obamo scares senior citizens in Florida that they will lose their social security if they dont vote for him ,he is no different than the blackmailing radical creeps like Al Sharpthon and Jesse Jackson. We dont need a lowlife in the white house. The choice is clear as day VOTE McCain

    Shmuel Tzvi
    Shmuel Tzvi
    15 years ago

    If you love Israel, vote McCain/Palin, they are looking after us for the good.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Mind you, only about 5 percent of the Florida electorate is Jewish. But that’s still about 400000 voters

    McCain lesser of evils
    McCain lesser of evils
    15 years ago

    Obama is a super liberal, anti Israel, left wing extremist who has Muslim roots and radical Muslim support.

    Unfortunately, McCain is also a liberal masquerading as a Conservative but he is far less dangerous than Obama.

    Does our vote in New York make a difference? The state is so overwhelmingly Democratic that my McCain vote might be wasted. Can anyone explain why it would be worth my time to vote?

    der yid
    der yid
    15 years ago

    if u like it or not were going to have 4 years of a carter administration unless mccain wins florida

    mark levin
    mark levin
    15 years ago

    ru serious, you seem to be forgetting that the libs have been in control of congress for a few years. what have they dont good for the coutry duing that time? NOTHING! It takes congress to draft bills and if they are what the president wants, he/she will sign it. When things were going better in the late slick willy years it was because the conservatives controlled congress which meant the good bills were coming out clinton had no choice but to sign them. Blame your own party.

    berl
    berl
    15 years ago

    Sarah Silverman is a foul mouthed low life. Her only connection to Judaism is her last name which makes her as Jewish as whoopie goldberg.She has no idea what being a Jew is all about and cheapens Jews by representing herself as one. She is better suited to sing her songs to jeezus and santa claus. Her “shlep” clip is filled with filthy language and warped ideas. Perhaps her Jewish soul suffers from arteriosclerosis from all the filthy langies she uses and all the treif food she eats!
    She would make a good project for Chabad to be mikarev,lol

    Zoltan
    Zoltan
    15 years ago

    You all voted for Bush he fooled you McCain will do the same.

    zoygenberg
    zoygenberg
    15 years ago

    i am listening to jakei mason and voting for mcain beacuse obama is a lair who goes back on anything he ever said and acomplished nothing in his life

    Allan
    Allan
    15 years ago

    It’s the Liberals and their insanity that will ruin America if given the chance. VOTE McCAIN/PALIN they will be better for all of us JEWS here and in Israel.

    Milhouse
    Milhouse
    15 years ago

    The most powerful reason to vote against Obama is that he is a friend of terrorists Ayers and Dohrn. That doesn’t mean he approves of what they did, but he clearly doesn’t think it so bad that he can’t be their friend. If McCain had a friend who was an unrepentant rapist or a Klansman, we wouldn’t hear the end of it, but somehow it’s OK for Obama to be friends with terrorists.

    robroy560
    robroy560
    15 years ago

    If Hitler, yemach shemo, was resurrected and placed on a Democrat ticket, I promise you there would be plenty of liberal Jews voting for him. They would say he changed and he is not a republican.

    I’m not a McCain Kool-Aid drinker. As a poltical conservative, I have many issues with him. For that matter, I disagree with GWB on a lot of things too. But there is no way I am voting for this dangerous kook, even if he picked an old goofball from the Senate – a guy with 9,000 primary votes vs. Hillary’s 18 million.

    As far as Sarah Silverman is concerned, shut up and act. People pay to see and hear your awful humor. We don’t care about your political nonsense. Go enjoy your shaygitz boyfirend. You don’t speak for my Jewish believes.

    ezra
    ezra
    15 years ago

    for Israel’s sake vote McCain Palin

    matzahlocal101
    matzahlocal101
    15 years ago

    Hitler was also elected. and BTW, that yarmulka is an obama-nation.