Comments on: How people I meet are voting, 9/21/08 edition http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/09/21/how-people-i-meet-are-voting-92108-edition/ "She is very powerful, so be nice to her." Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents, Eric Fingerhut Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jill Miller Zimon http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/09/21/how-people-i-meet-are-voting-92108-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-135370 Jill Miller Zimon Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:26:08 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/09/21/how-people-i-meet-are-voting-92108-edition/#comment-135370 That is very hard to say - it certainly is possible, but here, as with Republicans who say they wouldn't vote for Obama simply because of his Democratic values or policies, it's also easy to believe and frankly to accept, particularly from a Holocaust survivor, their fear - as irrational as we might believe it to be - that he is a Muslim and wants Israel destroyed. I don't know - maybe I'm wrong, but I don't feel it's right for me to argue with someone who has survived clawing her way out of a pit full of dead people shot by Nazis and surviving day after day running from one farm to the next, living in the Warsaw ghetto and being favored by German soldiers because of her beauty. You know what I mean? I'm not saying I'm okay for not arguing with her - but then again, you know - if she is fearful, it's really hard for me to imagine that I can convince her not to be - even 60+ years later. As the poll that was released yesterday indicates, there are a significant proportion of Dems. who appear to be unable to or unwilling to vote for Obama because he is black - whether those folks are Jewish, I don't know - but Jews are only 1.5-3% of all Americans so...I think it's safe to say race is making a difference all the way around. That is very hard to say – it certainly is possible, but here, as with Republicans who say they wouldn’t vote for Obama simply because of his Democratic values or policies, it’s also easy to believe and frankly to accept, particularly from a Holocaust survivor, their fear – as irrational as we might believe it to be – that he is a Muslim and wants Israel destroyed. I don’t know – maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t feel it’s right for me to argue with someone who has survived clawing her way out of a pit full of dead people shot by Nazis and surviving day after day running from one farm to the next, living in the Warsaw ghetto and being favored by German soldiers because of her beauty.

You know what I mean? I’m not saying I’m okay for not arguing with her – but then again, you know – if she is fearful, it’s really hard for me to imagine that I can convince her not to be – even 60+ years later.

As the poll that was released yesterday indicates, there are a significant proportion of Dems. who appear to be unable to or unwilling to vote for Obama because he is black – whether those folks are Jewish, I don’t know – but Jews are only 1.5-3% of all Americans so…I think it’s safe to say race is making a difference all the way around.

]]> By: Village Green http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/09/21/how-people-i-meet-are-voting-92108-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-135341 Village Green Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:58:39 +0000 http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/09/21/how-people-i-meet-are-voting-92108-edition/#comment-135341 Do you think race has something to do with all these Democrats being "uncomfortable" with Obama? Do you think race has something to do with all these Democrats being “uncomfortable” with Obama?

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