Obama Gets Lowest Jewish Support For Dems Since Carter As PM Netanyahu Shows Obama Lied At AIPAC

By Susan Duclos

Commentary Magazine points out that according to a Investors Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP Poll poll, Barack Obama is receiving the lowest amount of Jewish voter support for a Democrat, since Jimmy Carter.

…..Obama leading among Jews by a margin of 59 to 35 percent with six
percent undecided. While that is still a majority it is a dramatic
decline from the 78 percent of the Jewish vote he got four years ago.

Obama has a 46-44 percent lead over Romney in the TIPP poll. That
means Obama is suffering from a decline in support throughout the
electorate from his 2008 victory when he won 53 percent of the vote. But
the president’s loss of approximately 25 percent of Jewish voters this
year is not matched by a similar decline in any other demographic group.
Indeed even in the unlikely event that Obama was to win almost all of
the undecided voters in the survey, that would barely match Michael
Dukakis’ 64 percent of Jewish votes in 1988. Far more likely is a result
that would leave the president with the lowest total of Jewish votes
since 1980 when Jimmy Carter received 45 percent in a three-way race
with Ronald Reagan and John Anderson. While some losses in Jewish
support could be put down to disillusionment with his economic policies
that is shared across the board, the only conceivable explanation for
this far greater than average loss of Jewish votes is the
administration’s difficult relationship with Israel.

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the Jewish state
will not wait for the Obama administration to sign off on a possible
strike against Iran.

In his comments PM Netanyahu also inherently implies that when Barack Obama spoke to the 2012 American Israel Public Affairs Conference (AIPAC), he was being disingenuous.
Obama said that Israel has a “sovereign right to make its own decisions about what is required to meet its security needs.”

Bibi’s comments today:

With new evidence that Iran is on the cusp of finalizing a nuclear
weapon, a pointed war of words between the U.S. and Israel escalated
Tuesday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the
Jewish state will not wait for the Obama administration to sign off on a
possible strike against Iran.

“The world tells Israel ‘wait, there’s still time.’ And I say, ‘Wait
for what? Wait until when?’ Those in the international community who
refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a
red light before Israel,” Netanyahu declared at a press conference in what is being viewed as a direct rebuke to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton stoked Israeli fears earlier this week when stated that the
U.S. is “not setting deadlines” regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
“Good-faith” talks with the genocidal regime, she added, are the best
solution to the nuclear impasse.

“We’re convinced that we have more time to focus on these sanctions,
to do everything we can to bring Iran to a good-faith negotiation,”
Clinton reportedly said.

Israeli officials quickly seized
on Clinton’s comments, arguing that her soft approach would only
encourage Iran to continue working on its clandestine nuclear weapons
program.

“Without a clear red line, Iran won’t stop its race towards a nuclear weapon,” one Israeli official told the Israeli news site Ynet.

 Israel does have the sovereign right to make its own decisions about what is required to meet its security needs, but Obama mouthed the words because he needs the Jewish vote in November but his actions, via Clinton who is part of his administration, do not match his rhetoric.

Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Committee of Intelligence,
who recently participated in a meeting in Israel where Netanyahu and the
U.S. Ambassador to Israel exchanged sharp words over the Obama
administration’s handling of Iran, said Israeli leaders are at “wits end” with the Obama administration.

 PM Netanyahu has drawn his red line.

Does the Obama administration stand on the side of that line with one of our closest allies, Israel, or does he stand on Iran’s side of that line?

This American Jewish writer’s inquiring mind would like to know.

[Update]  Jeffrey Goldberg over at The Atlantic in a piece snarkily titled “Iran Continues Its Peaceful Work on Atomic Warheads”:

And finally, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying president of
Iran, will be addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Yom
Kippur.