As the Purim wine begins to wear off I find myself musing about conspiracy theories which I’m not normally very keen on. But then again those following the news know that these aren’t normal times. Will you indulge me?
Barack Obama is attempting to achieve a seemingly impossible task which we will describe shortly. The Orchestrator of world events has set up a moral dilemma for the mortal “leader of the free world” that is so exquisite in its timing and in the starkness of the choice it presents that one has to work mighty hard to refuse to see it as His doing.
Consider: Mr. Obama is now engaged in the fight of his life for a second term something he wants more than anything in the world. The problem is that due to both his past associations and sympathies with the Palestinians as well as his very recent record on Israel Iran and the Middle East as a whole he is viewed by many American Jews with deep suspicion.
But he can’t afford for that to continue — literally. Not only do Jews make up a not insignificant percentage of voters in critically important swing states like Florida Pennsylvania and Ohio in an extremely tight race (do the words “hanging chad” or “Florida recount” ring a bell?) but even more crucially they represent a wildly disproportionate share of his biggest donors and fundraisers. Just the other week at a Washington DC “Afternoon with Jewish Leaders and President Barack Obama ” some 25 supporters paid close to $36 000 each for a total haul of $825 000. Not bad for an afternoon’s work but Obama is looking to match or top his billion-dollar 2008 run and indications are that the going is tough thus far.
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