Attention, Jewish Republicans....
Blah3 Feed — Do you really want to vote for Yukon Barbie? Really?? “There is almost always an inverse proportion between a candidate's popularity among conservative Christians and secular Jews,” said Jeff Ballabon, a Republican lobbyist long active in Jewish politics who supports McCain. An illustration of that gap came just two weeks ago, when Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus. Palin’s ...

Terrorist attacks in Israel are God's punishment to Jews who don't convert to Christ, speaker at Palin's church says in her presence
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Holy crap. ...just two weeks ago, when Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus. Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website. “He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism,” Kroon said. Brickner then explained that Jesus and his disciples were ...

Anti-Jewish Terror is "God's Judgment"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Yes, Sarah Palin sat in a church where this message was given. Two weeks ago. The karma in all this is just amazing: Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer ...

Impossible dilemmas
The Poor Man Institute — ... I don’t want to vote for John McCain.  For example: he’s crazy.  And in those areas where he isn’t actually crazy, he is willing to act crazy to appease the Crazy Bush Base.  He is a very angry little man.  And now, in his one pre-executive decision, he has managed to pick the craziest, stupidest, most unqualified, most embarrassing candidate since the Foley Administration …  and whose pastor believes that terrorism is God’s judgment on the Jews, and that people who don’t love Bush ...

Did Palin Attend Anti-Semitic Speech?
Comments from Left Field — ... Every 15 minutes, there is a new revelation about Palin.  Tonight, an article by Ben Smith in the Politico contained this disturbing report: ...

IT JUST WON'T STOP
Shadow of the Hegemon — Sully: Yes, Sarah Palin sat in a church where this message was given. Two weeks ago. The karma in all this is just amazing: Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem ...

Nice Job Joe,
Rising Hegemon — Your beloved Maverick just nominated a gal who two weeks ago sat blissfully through a sermon that said this: Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score ...

Sarah Palin’s Jeremiah Wright
Balloon Juice — Just two weeks ago, Sarah Palin sat in on this sermon: Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity. “Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner’s son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, ...

Liberal Media & Democrats Slander Palin As Jew-Hater--- Forget Obama's Links to PLO Operatives & Sympathy For Hamas
Gateway Pundit — ... co-chairman of Barack Obama's Florida campaign, accused Governor Palin of supporting Pat Buchanan in the 2000 Alaska primary. The Politico newspaper reports that Wexler then asserted that Palin had "aligned herself with a leading anti-Israel voice in American politics." He also invoked the name of Adolf Hitler and the phrase "Nazi sympathizer." But a statement on John McCain's Web site says Palin actually worked for the Steve Forbes campaign in 2000. Liberal Ben Smith says because she is an devout Christian she must be against ...

Palin in Her Church's Pews When Jews for Jesus Founder Spoke - Two Weeks Ago
Daily Kos — Via The Politico, we learn that Sarah Palin was in church for this sermon very recently: An illustration of that gap came just two weeks ago, when Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus. Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website. "He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on ...

Website with Speeches and Sermons from Palin's Former Church Shuts Down as Religious Views of Candidate Face Scrutiny
Political Punch — ... of what she was saying.""She very clearly was saying that she's praying for military men and women to do what's right," Goldfarb said. "Every religious American prays that the what the U.S. is doing in Iraq is something that is a righteous act." Religious Americans regularly pray that acts they take, and acts they take, are the correct, or righteous ones, Goldfarb said, arguing that was what Palin meant by her remarks. Palin's current church has also undergone scrutiny. The Politico's Ben Smith reported that Palin was present for an August 17 sermon in which David Brickner, ...

Palin's Pastor Problem
Hoffmania! — ... In case you missed it, let's see if this gets any traction. Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus. Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website. Brickner...described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity. "Judgment ...

“Grapevine” Shines Spotlight On Jeremiah Wright While Palin’s Pastors Are Invisible
News Hounds — ... nation is a Christian nation.” And this: From an October 28, 2007 sermon: “God will not be mocked. I don’t care what the ACLU says. God will not be mocked. I don’t care what atheists say. God will not be mocked. I don’t care what’s going on in the nation today with so much horrific rebellion and sin and things that take place. God will not be mocked. Judgment Day is coming. Where do you stand?” It seems that Palin was in the pew, on August 17th, when the Director of Jews for Jesus, David Brickner spoke to the congregation. Brickner, who attributes terrorist attacks in Israel to ...

What Does Sarah Palin's Selection Tell Us About John McCain's Readiness To Lead?
DownWithTyranny! — ... , crazier-than-Reverend Wright sermons she sat through. This is about John McCain's inability to live up to the most basic precepts of national leadership. People who know him best-- other than those like Lieberman and Lindsey Graham on his coat tails-- all say he has never exhibited any capacities for leadership. From the time he was in the Navy right through his time in the Senate, he was always judged to be severely lacking in leadership and executive abilities. The Sarah Palin debacle should not come as a surprise to anyone, just as another warning. ...

The Table
Balloon Juice — So far Sarah Palin takes the following attacks off the table: Experience. Terrorist friends (what is Palin’s position on plastic explosives?). Crazy pastors who say offensive things. Upright family values (it’s private, fine, except that they’re marching the young couple around the convention and the McCain campaign won’t shut up about it). Then there are the many ways that Palin enhances the perception that electing McCain essentially means a third term for George W. Bush. ...

MSNBC's Maddow Implies Palin Is Anti-Semitic
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... For a media that is scaring its audience about Palin's Christianity, it sure does understand the concept of an "eye for eye."  The search for a right wing Jeremiah Wright is on.   Maddow is referring to Ben Smith's Politico article. ...

Florida.
INSTAPUTZ — ... And then McCain didn’t choose Charlie Crist, Florida’s governor, or Mitt Romney, by far the most popular V.P. candidate among Florida’s voters, as his running mate. He picked Sarah Palin, who, whatever her many other virtues, sat in a pew at the Wasilla Bible Church just two Sundays ago as her pastor introduced David Brickner, the founder of Jews for Jesus. (Sample Brickner: “The Jewish community, in particular, has a difficult time understanding this reality,” that Jesus and his disciples were Jewish.) Palin was also ...

Sarah Palin: The Xena of the War Party
Antiwar.com Original — ... conducted jointly by AIPAC and Lieberman, but this hardly seemed necessary. After all, the woman has a little Israeli flag in her office. I'm sure, however, her interrogators gave her a few useful pointers. Maybe they asked her about that pastor who came to her church and delivered a sermon explaining that Jews were doomed to suffer eternally from terrorist attacks in Israel until and unless they accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Yes, the lady has her own Jeremiah Wright. As Rachel Maddow ...

Sarah Palin: Good for the Jews?
44 — The Debate Rages On... Sarah Palin: Good for the Jews? By Michelle Boorstein American Jewish organizations and Jewish bloggers are lit up over Gov. Sarah Palin's little-know record on Israel and other key Jewish issues. Online, much of the chatter has focused on the fact that, a few weeks ago, Palin sat in her Alaska church as her minister glowingly introduced the head of Jews for Jesus, a group of mostly evangelical Christians who aim to convert Jews to Christianity. In the talk, group executive director David Brickner blamed Middle East violence in part on Israeli Jews who ...

Kissing the Jewish Vote Goodbye
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... The Politico noted in an article entitled, "Jewish voters may be wary of Palin," that, "John McCain may have helped Obama with his Jewish problem by choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate." ...

Jewish Group Launches Online Campaign Against McCain/Palin
TalkLeft — ... Additionally, just last month, Palin was at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, where she attended a speech by David Brickner, the Executive Director of Jews for Jesus. During the speech, Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.    ...

Proselytizers who won't leave people alone
Classical Values — ... but she seems to have gay friends, who probably wouldn't hang out with someone who waved the Bible at them and threatened them with Hell on a regular basis.) However, with gay conservatives, in terms of actual voters we're talking about maybe 25% of 3% of a population which is predominantly invisible. That's the political reality. Whether she personally wants to save the homos from themselves or not, Palin would never win in leftist strongholds like San Francisco anyway, but converting the Jews is the sort of thing that might -- and I stress might -- not play well in ...

Sarah Palin’s Incredible Lightness Of Being
The Moderate Voice — ... queen bee of feminism, states the obvious in noting that all Palin shares with Hillary Clinton is a chromosome. From Gerard Baker: “What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama? “One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy. “The other kills her own food.” Like Obama, Palin arrives on the national stage with ties to a problematic ministry, in this case one that may turn off Jewish voters. And as a ...

The Ongoing Saga of Poor, Poor, Persecuted Sarah
News Hounds — ... that attempts to “pray away the gay” and which, two weeks ago, had a guest speaker, the executive director of Jews for Jesus, David Brickner. Brickner has been criticized by the ADL for saying that terrorist attacks on Israel are God’s punishment for those Jews who don’t accept Jesus. Cole is absolutely correct. That’s extremist.) ...

McCain: Enemy of Israel or All Out Anti-Semite?
The Poor Man Institute — ... targets “Jews for conversion with subterfuge and deception.”  Speaking of such preachers, one recently had these charming things to say about the people of Israel: ...

The pit bull
The Reality-Based Community — ... ". The pit bull is only one example of genetic abuse. But unlike other breeds it was designed for fighting. That's why it tends to be aggressive, and is especially damaging when it is. What sort of person chooses to identify with a dog that kills children? Footnote One of the American jurisdictions that does ban pit bulls is Miami-Dade County. I bet many of those Jewish retirees in Florida already worried about Palin's connection to " Jews for Jesus" wackos are also worried about savage dogs. Can't you see an attack advert: Sarah Palin is proud to call herself a "pit bull in ...

Oy, a Debate McCain Really Wants to Have?
democracyarsenal.org — ... on the foreign policy front already puts her at a disadvantage, but couple that with an existential warriness of Palin in the Jewish community due to her connections to Jews for Jesus and Pat Buchanan, it really makes you question the logic of them wading into this territory. Oh, and apparently ...

Governor Palin: Ignore Bill Kristol by Avoiding Glass Sanctuaries
The Moderate Voice — ... and has allowed anti-Jewish statements in his church by “Jews for Jesus” leader David Brickner. McCain has his own issues with controversial religious figures like ...

Joe Klein on the "Embarracuda"
The Stump — ... So then, I'd guess, it would be appropriate to bring up some of the nuttiness that passes for godliness in Palin's religious life. Leave aside the fact that The Embarracuda allowed herself to participate in a cermony that protected her from witchcraft, how about her presence--she didn't "get up and leave"-- at a sermon by the founder of Jews for Jesus, who argued that the Palestinian terrorist acts against Israel were God's "judgment" on the Jews because they hadn't accepted Jesus. ...

Sarah Palin just called herself an anti-Semite
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Sarah Palin sat there, didn't say a word, didn't leave, and according to one report may have even donated money to the man after he basically said that Jews in Israel deserve to get blown up. Here is what the Jews for Jesus executive director had to say: ...

McCain does nothing as supporter calls Obama a "terrorist"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... NB It's particularly ironic calling Obama a terrorist when it's Sarah Palin's church that preaches that terrorist attacks against Israel are "God's judgment" on those awful Jews for not accepting Christ. ...

"Kill him!"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Just like she did when speakers at her church said that terrorist attacks against Israelis were "God's judgment" for Jews having the audacity not to embrace Christianity. Just like she did when a visiting witch doctor at her church lamented the fact that, as he claimed, ...

So, Joe Klein, maybe you won't be such a pearl-clutcher the next time a houn' dog like Bill Clinton comes around
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... So then, I'd guess, it would be appropriate to bring up some of the nuttiness that passes for godliness in Palin's religious life. Leave aside the fact that The Embarracuda allowed herself to participate in a cermony that protected her from witchcraft, how about her presence--she didn't "get up and leave"-- at a sermon by the founder of Jews for Jesus, who argued that the Palestinian terrorist acts against Israel were God's "judgment" on the Jews because they hadn't accepted Jesus. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today. And these two are not to be confused with another guest preacher at Palin's church: ...Palin's church, the Wasilla Bible ...