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Democrats Outraged Over Jewish-Issues Poll Questions That Are... Umm... Demonstrably True

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It's not even a push poll. The Republican Jewish Coalition was testing whether there's anything that can sway American Jews not to support the most anti-Israel foreign policy team ever assembled by any Presidential candidate, and instead of addressing their concerns the left launches into histrionics:

Jewish voters have been receiving telephone calls from figures claiming to be pollsters yet trying to dissuade them from supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in the upcoming election. The callers introduce themselves as poll-takers who are gathering data for a public opinion survey and subsequently ask their interlocutors loaded questions whose tone infers that Obama holds anti-Israel views and is thus unworthy of Jewish votes. The calls... were brought to public attention by the Jewish Council for Education, a pro-Obama organization... Callers posed questions asking if voters would reconsider their preferred candidate had they learned that "Obama had given money to the Palestine Liberation Organization", or that "the leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef, expressed support for Obama and hoped for Obama's victory," or that Obama's political advisors are "pro-Palestinian," or that Obama once said "the Palestinians have suffered the most." The "pollsters" also asked what would-be Jewish voters thought if they were told that the president of Iran also "endorsed Obama," or if they learned that Obama "supported a united Jerusalem and then switched his opinion and believed in a divided Jerusalem," or Jimmy Carter's "anti-Israel national security advisor is one of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisors." Officials from the Jewish Council for Education are scheduled to convene a news conference in New York on Tuesday during which they are expected to reveal new information that sheds light on the mysterious campaign intended to smear Obama under the guise of a public survey.

* The leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef, expressed support for Obama and hoped for Obama's victory - true.
* Obama's political advisors are "pro-Palestinian" - true. They also have a habit of popping up in places like Syria, where they do things like promise Assad that the US will work to push Israel into a land-for-peace swap.
* Obama once said "the Palestinians have suffered the most" - the quote was actually "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people", but true.
* The president of Iran also "endorsed Obama" - true.
* Obama "supported a united Jerusalem and then switched his opinion and believed in a divided Jerusalem" - true. Which makes sense when you consider that his foreign policy advisers think Israel needs to put Jerusalem on the table.
* Jimmy Carter's "anti-Israel national security adviser is one of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers" - true.

After the jump, all of the also demonstrably true Obama endorsements that these pollsters didn't even have time to get to.

Apparently there are so many anti-Semites surrounding Obama that push-pollers aren't even bringing up that viciously anti-Semitic preacher who the mainstream media has decided isn't an issue. And they also apparently ran out of time before they could bring up the warm words and/or explicit endorsements from Farrakhan and from Assad's regime and from Ali Abunimah and from Hamas-supporting Gazans in general and from George Galloway and - most recently - from one Patrick Buchanan:

Buchanan said on MSNBC: Let me say about Israel here. My position on Israel is frankly awful. It is like Mika [Brzezinski]'s father's, it's a lot closer to Barack Obama's than it is John McCain. This is quite a boomerang in the side of the head for Congressman Robert Wexler who was out earlier accusing Sarah Palin of supporting the "Nazi sympathizer" Buchanan.
Now in fairness, the stuff about the PLO is probably only partially true. As near as anyone can tell, Obama merely funneled cash to a PLO-linked anti-Israel organization run by a PLO-linked terrorist sympathizer with whom Obama seems strikingly well-acquainted. So there's that.

References:
* GOP group behind negative Obama poll [Politico]
* U.S. Jews outraged over phone campaign alleging 'Obama gave money to PLO' [Ha'aretz]
* Carter hugs Hamas, Hamas hugs … Obama? [Hot Air]
* Top Obama Foreign Policy Adviser: No Seriously, We Are Totally Going To Screw Israel When We Get Into Power [MR]
* Giuliani slams Obama for lack of political transparency after adviser visits Syria [Ha'aretz]
* Obama Adviser Offers Some Advice to Damascus [New York Sun]
* Another Endorsement For Obama... From the Iranian Regime [Gateway Pundit]
* Obama Isn't Anti-Israel Because... Umm... Err... Because He Just Isn't OK? [MR]
* Obama advisor: Jerusalem must be included in peace talks [Ha'aretz]
* Obama Defenders: What Brzezinski Guy? (Plus: That's Not Even Their Worst Argument) [MR]
* WRIGHT: ISRAEL A "DIRTY WORD;" JOKES THAT BLACKS GET ALL QUIET AT MENTION OF ISRAEL [Ace]
* Confirmed: Obama didn’t mean to suggest that Wright had apologized [Hot Air]
* Farrakhan: Obama is the 'hope of the entire world' [Chicago Sun Times]
* Obamamania in Damascus [City Journal]
* Video: George Galloway pretty excited about Obama and solving “this Palestine problem” [Hot Air]
* Video: Palestinian activist praises the Obama he used to know [Hot Air]
* Video: Gazans running phone bank for Obama [Hot Air]
* Pat Buchanan: 'My position on Israel is...a lot closer to Barack Obama's than it is John McCain.' [Solomonia]
* Obama Funneled Cash to Former PLO Operatives Anti-Israel Foundation [Avid Editor]

Previously:
* NJDC: Biden Is Pro-Israel Because... Ummm... Err... Because He Just Is OK?
* Biden Now Actively Channeling Rabid Anti-Israel Partisans, Adopting Their Barely-Veiled Anti-Israel Euphemisms
* ABC News: McCain "Falsely Accusing" Obama Of Doing Exactly What The Crowd Who Heard His "Pig" Comment Thought He Was Doing (UPDATED: Ben Smith Wasn't In The Room, Rhetorical Sophistication Invoked!)

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