{"id":2438,"date":"2008-02-27T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/obama-on-israel\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T23:20:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T05:20:13","slug":"obama-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/obama-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Barack Obama: Good for the Jews. Tim Russert: Bad for the Jews. And for America. \u00ab The Edge of the American West<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, on Sunday Obama talked about some of those issues with <em>machers<\/em> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandjewishnews.com\/articles\/2005\/02\/11\/news\/local\/bcover0211.txt\">Cleveland Jewish community<\/a>. Which, if you don\u2019t know, is a surprisingly large and very active community (check the previous link for some details), notable for giving enormous amounts of money to various causes, both Jewish and not. It\u2019s also an important part of the Democratic machine in Northeast Ohio. Which is the bedrock of the Democratic machine in Ohio more broadly. Which, if you look at recent elections \u2014 up to the 2006 midterms and governor\u2019s race \u2014 is a machine that\u2019s been in very bad repair. Regardless, Jews matter in Ohio Democratic politics. So <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.jta.org\/2008\/02\/25\/obama-reaches-out-to-jewish-leaders\/\">Obama went to talk to them last Sunday<\/a>. And he had some interesting things to say. <em>[mjh: Read the rest&#8230;]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edgeofthewest.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/27\/barack-obama-good-for-the-jews-tim-russert-bad-for-the-jews-and-for-america\/\">Barack Obama: Good for the Jews. Tim Russert: Bad for the Jews. And for America. \u00ab The Edge of the American West<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama: Good for the Jews. Tim Russert: Bad for the Jews. And for America. \u00ab The Edge of the American West In fact, on Sunday Obama talked about some of those issues with machers in the Cleveland Jewish community. Which, if you don\u2019t know, is a surprisingly large and very active community (check the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/obama-on-israel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama on Israel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}