Jewish Liberals Never Learn

For all his griping and supposed regret for supporting Obama, Koch will likely still vote for him in 2012.

Obama’s views have not shifted, Koch just chose to ignore Obama’s radical left and anti-Semitic associations during the campaign. Now he acts shocked that Obama has carried out anti-Israel policies.

The Rift Is Deep and Wide

The Daily Caller

By Caroline May

Support for President Obama is waning among America’s Jewish population, polls indicate, a shift driven primarily by the president’s policies toward Israel.

The London Telegraph reported this weekend that Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, described the state of U.S.-Israeli relations in bleak terms, saying the two nations “are in a state of tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart.” While Oren since has asserted that he was misquoted and that his words were less incendiary than reported, even relatively disinterested observers can see that relations between the allies are strained.

McLaughlin & Associates, a national polling company, recently released the “National Survey of Jewish Voters” which reported that while Jewish voters favored Obama 78 percent to 12 percent in the 2008 presidential exit polls, currently, “only 42 percent of voters would re-elect him, while the plurality (46 percent) would consider voting for someone else.

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