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Amen and Amen, Simon. Thank you for having the courage
to say what many of us (particularly those part of the media
establishment) have felt for a long time. Good Shabbos!
--Robin Blumenthal
Thank you for revealing your vote for the
President. I too, proudly, voted for the President for I
saw him as a man of honor and courage to stand up for the
principles that I hold so dear. Of course, there were many
times when my friends who were Kerry supporters who say"
Don't you want a future for your grandchildren?" To
which I always retorted, "That's why I am voting for
George Bush." Your e-mail today reconfirms my convictions.
Your emails serve to be a" guiding light."
---Marian Bauer
Dear Simon,
I just sent you the new map of the United States. Where was your sense of
history. Where was your sense of wisdom to vote for them!! They are as dangerous
as the Nazis were in the 1930's in Germany. The dangerous part about Bush
is he thinks that G-d is telling him what to do! And, everything he has done
since he stopped drinking alcohol and blowing coke has been a total failure.
My friends in Europe have asked if "if the American people are
really that STUPID".
You will pay for this in Social Security. Your children will pay because there
won't be any social security for them and their taxes will be outrageous.
Didn't you realize that he and the Christian Right have killed the Age of
Enlightenment! This wasn't an election about G-d or not believing in G-d this
was about a man and his crew who are willing to talk about it but don't do
the walk. This wasn't about Politics as you explain it. It was about a subjective
idea of what YOU would think about believers and non-believers. That is not
the way a great country runs it's business.
This country was supposed to be about division of Church and State. Well all
you subjectivists have killed that idea. It was what kept US AS JEWS SAFE
in this country. Talk to me again about your vote in 2 years when he ruins
what policies and lost whatever friends we have left in this little planet.
I know a lot of people who thought as you did and voted as you did. They are
Jewish and they are supposed to be able to think, evaluate from past history
and be educated, objective human beings. Watch yourself Simon. Watch what
happens to the Christian Right and the Jews from now on. Watch how they give
to the new Russians in Israel so they can move in to convert them. Watch how
your freedoms will be taken away little by little, just like they were in
Germany and Austria in the 1930'& 40's. Be careful. The smart Jews were
able to see it coming then and they lived to tell the story.
John Kerry is a statesman. A fine, intelligent, man who knows how to serve
in Government and with his family. He was never arrested for drunk driving.
He never blew coke. His grandfather was a Jew! I voted for him because he
is a rational man who isn't ruled by his ego and failures.
I have one more observation to make to you regarding your vote for Bush and
it is this. What they have done by voting him into office again is exactly
what the Muslim Fundamentalists are doing. They are going to build an Anti-Terrorist
network that is the identical to Muslim Fundamentalism, called Christian Fundamentalism.
Gandhi said it would not work. He points to the road of least resistance which
is PEACE NOT WAR. It's the same cry we had in the 1960's & 70's. That's
what a vote for BUSH was really about. Blood for oil. I hope your children
don't get drafted next year or the year after or the year after, cause that's
what is going to happen. He will win no matter what he has to do because his
higher power is guiding him. Does that sound like a rational thinker or a
kook who believes in his faith? I ask you.
Shabbat Shalom,
Roberta Arnold
Roberta adds:
This country is sacred and blessed to me. My family came
here to Boston in the 1880's. We as Jews are part of the
minority here and need to align ourselves with all the other
minority's. Asians, African Americans, Indians, Central
& S. Americans. Forget the Christian White Right so
we can continue to worship and thrive here in a Democracy
and with respect from our neighbors.
Thank you, Roberta
Rabbi Jacobson,
I've only read your first 3 lines so far, but just want
to say that you're the first person I've "heard"
say exactly what I've been saying -- "I didn't really
vote FOR Bush, I voted against all the liberals in this
country who totally don't get it." In fact, I was super
open-minded about Kerry until the last week, he simply never
gave me the confidence to vote for him and I was not going
to vote for him just to vote against someone else. On the
other hand, I was quite happy to vote "against"
a lot of the supposedly open-minded people in NY who are
anything, anything BUT.
Thanks for writing this piece, by the way. I keep hearing
people -- Jews unfortunately, very much included -- talk
about how scary this country is becoming. How people are
too "ignorant" to see it, that we're becoming
a Christian country (we weren't?). No more separation of
church and state. How the Christian right is taking over
and going to take away all our rights. They have completely
forgotten who, and how real, our enemy actually is. And
these same people, who say that W has created a factory
of hate in Iraq, have also forgotten that 9/11 happened
before we invaded Iraq. And lastly, they fail to realize
that they -- the liberals who believe in all doing whatever
we want, including walking around half naked, are themselves
the ones that stand the most for everything Islamic fundamentalists
are trying to destroy. They think singing kumbaya will bring
piece, but fundamentalists don't even believe in letting
women speak up at all.
Ok, thanks for letting me vent...
Take care
Shabbat shalom
Susan, NY
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