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Review of mock Clinton, Obama debate held for Cleveland Jewish audience


I did not attend the event which was held yesterday (3/2) at the Beachwood High School. This report is from Ha’aretz. It is written by Shmuel Rosner, “Haaretz’s chief U.S. correspondent, and is based in Washington. He, his wife and their three children live in Maryland.” I’m guessing he is Israeli but the bio does not indicate sabra or not.

Here’s a teaser:

It was a sunny, breezy Sunday afternoon in the Beachwood suburb of Cleveland, and two panelists came to represent the two Democratic candidates in a debate aimed at the Jewish community of this area. There were 150 or so people in the room. More old than young, more wearing Clinton buttons (both in English and Hebrew) than Obama’s. The event was organized by The Israel Project and the Cleveland Jewish News (and also sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council).

Congressmen Adam Schiff of California (Barack Obama) and Anthony Weiner of New York (Hillary Clinton) repeated all the familiar themes from the debate. But they did talk in great length about the Middle East in general and Israel in particular.

Two conclusions could be drawn [by the author of this Ha'aretz piece] from what they were saying:

Apparently, they suspected that the crowd was fairly hawkish and felt the need to make peace with it.

In the course of doing so they had no problem evading uncomfortable questions and somewhat distorting the position of the candidates.

I’m sorry I wasn’t there to see what I would think. Perhaps a transcript will appear sometime soon. The author of the Ha’aretz piece sounds as though he has a definite slant.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:36 am March 3rd, 2008 in Barack Obama, Campaigning, Cleveland+, Elections, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Jewish, Media, Ohio, Politics, Primary, Social Issues, WH2008 

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One Response to “Review of mock Clinton, Obama debate held for Cleveland Jewish audience”

  1. 1 JAMES RUGGIERO on March 3rd, 2008 10:34 pm

    Hawkish is putting it softly.Check this out.
    Amnesty rips Israeli military attacks for ‘reckless disregard of life’
    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204473061572&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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