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Jews looked past worries to embrace Obama

For months, polls showed Obama languishing at about 60 percent of the Jewish vote, a critical chunk short of the 75 percent or so Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) garnered in 2004. But exit polls from the Tuesday election showed Obama matching those results, garnering about 78 percent of the Jewish vote against 22 percent for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), his Republican rival.

Let bygones (not) be bygones

So John McCain — while claiming that not he\’s not impugning Barack Obama\’s patriotism — impugns Barack Obama\’s patriotism, but we\’re supposed to understand that it doesn\’t really matter, because that\’s just what people do in campaigns.

ANALYSIS: Obama worked hard to gain Jewish trust

In response to a sustained GOP campaign to discredit him on Israel, Barack Obama has touted a growing roster of pro-Israel stalwarts who support him, repeatedly insisted that Israel\’s security is \”sacrosanct,\” defended Israeli military maneuvers and vowed to do everything in his power to block Iran\’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Keep religion out of presidential politics

Since last summer, when I volunteered for a Barack Obama event, I have received many nonsensical e-mails and heard many nonsensical arguments — from friends and family as well as on TV — about Sen. Obama\’s alleged lack of allegiance to the United States of America.

Birthright Israel, sex and the column

\” . . . It is wishful thinking by the writer that Obama\’s chance to be president has been torpedoed by his past association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. McCain and the writer want us to focus on this guilt by association nonissue, rather than on Obama\’s own actions and words and the terrible political and economic conditions our beloved country has fallen into under the Bush/Cheney regime . . .\”

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