America is rather hard to leave, especially in an era before cheap air travel. Even those who would want to go back couldn’t. They had their heads filled with the idealistic nonsense the Communists sell, without having to have lived with the consequences.

It’s time for Jewish Democrats to speak up on Hagel

Really? I think they already spoke when they overwhelmingly voted for Obama. Hagel is merely his Charlie McCarthy

Israel might be the Jewish State, but that hardly means American Jews are interested in it.

Can we forget the Jewish thing. It’s time for at least one Democrat to speak out against Hagel because the man does not have the intellectual capacity to do the job and he has attitudes that cross the line to appeasement of any nation that would make itself an adversary.

xkaydet65 on February 15, 2013 at 5:16 PM

From my point of view about Hagel — I agree with you there ^^ — Hagel’s incompetence intellectually is the problem combined with his obvious ethical compromises. He’s obviously receiving incentives (be they financial or political or both) from the Nation of Islam — whether it’s from Iran or the Bros, whatever — and he’s also obviously not being forthright about what interests are his promoters. Thus, he’s ethically compromised.

Not up to standards all the way around for the job he’s being nominated for.

…ought to cause the organized Jewish world to reassess their silence. This is especially true since some pro-Israel Democrats have used this failure of the Jewish groups to speak out as cover for their own decision to go along with the president’s poor choice.

As if more evidence was necessary to prove this point, the Left/Democrats, be they Jewish, Black, whatever else delineation they ascribe to, are first and foremost Leftwingers if not often, many of them Communists. THEN their identities are ascribed to whatever else they may find useful. But their primary focus and identity, and focus, is on their ‘leftwingism’.

I understand why we should all be extra sensitive about “the Jews” but it’s time to start addressing those among the permanent Left-Democrat operatives as Democrats. Who happen to have certain family relationships…

I’ve known, quite closely, many among those of Jewish ethnicity and they are primarily Democrat/Leftwing/Liberal/sociopolitically focused. Their “Jewishness” is that and it’s nearly always distantly related to, if at all, anything religious.

The President doesn’t like Jews, so call it even.

portlandon on February 15, 2013 at 5:01 PM

Hagel doesn’t either.

It’s time for Jewish Democrats to speak up on Hagel

Might as well say, “Its time for Jewish Democrats to become conservative Republicans.”

If Jewish groups speak out now in the aftermath of the cloture vote the Hagel nomination will collapse.

They will remain silent. Their religious affiliation is The Church Of Liberalism and unto that they are faithful.