"I Just Got Push-Polled on Obama and Israel "

[satya]

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I Just Got Push-Polled on Obama and Israel

My caller ID said "CENTRAL RESEARC 212-777-1645." Ugh, I figured. Another telemarketer. It was 6:43 pm and, under normal circumstances, I would have let it go to voice mail.

But it came on my home office line and I happened to be expecting a call from New York. So I answered.

It turned out to be a political poll. And not just any old poll.

It started off in the usual way. Am I registered to vote? Do I plan to vote on election day? How do I label myself politically?

A few seemingly innocuous questions about religion followed. What was my faith? What was my denomination? How often did I attend services? From there, the focus became more explicitly political--and, again, perfectly typical. Was I Democrat or Republican? Etc.

The caller ran through a list of politicians, to ask whether I viewed them favorably or unfavorably. All the people you'd expect were on the list: George W. Bush. Barack Obama. John McCain. Sarah Palin. Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden. Joe Lieberman.

But then there was an odd inclusion: Jimmy Carter.

I can't say I made much of it at the time. To be quite honest--and this won't surprise my regular readers--I was more worked up over the fact that, when asked about the broad issues that concerned me most, the poll categorized health care as a social concern rather than an economic one. (I asked if I could change the categories; the caller said I couldn't.)

But soon enough I understood why they were asking about Carter. After going over some more issues and confirming the fact that I was likely to vote for Obama, the caller made a series of rather pointed inquiries. Would it affect my vote, he said, if I knew that

    Obama has had a decade long relationship with pro-Palestinian leaders in Chicago

    the leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef, expressed support for Obama and his hope for Obama's victory

    the church Barack Obama has attended is known for its anti-Israel and anti-American remarks

    Jimmy Carter's anti-Israel national security advisor is one of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisors

    Barack Obama was the member of a board (sic) that funded a pro-Palestinian chartiable organization

    Barack Obama called for holding a summit of Muslim nations exlcuding Israel if elected president

My notes are pretty close to verbatim. (I started typing as soon as I realized I was getting polled.) When the caller was finished, I got a supervisor on the phone and asked if he would tell me who was sponsoring the survey. He said he couldn't reveal that information.

All he would tell me was that he was calling from Central Marketing Research Inc. in New York City. And that makes sense. It seems that the same organization has been involved in these sorts of efforts before.

Update: Ben Smith at Politico reports that other Jewish voters are getting these calls, too. Based on his reporting and a comment from TNR reader "amstern," it sounds like the calls are going out to Jews in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (which is where I live).

Also, I corrected the improper use of "exorcised" in my original item.

--Jonathan Cohn

[Ralph Furely]

when given these questions im sure even jewish ppl are saying to themselves 'wtf?'

[MikeWB]

They're scared of Obama which means that voting for him is not going to be a wasted vote like it would be if you vote for Paul.

When all things considered, Obama would be a better choice than McCain. So if you're voting, vote Obama since our enemy doesn't like him.

[jai_mann]

I don't know how any one can buy into the political system still given how @#@'d up it is. Besides the electoral college makes the decisions. Obama is surrounded by CFR members as advisers just as is McCain. Does Zbigniew Brzezinski ring a bell? This guy is one of the black "saviors" advisers. Both candidates exist because they are funded by the major players (ruling class). There is no difference between them and the policies that they would implement. Here's quotes from Brzezinski from his "Technocratic Era" published in the late 60's.

In the Technotronic Age, the "nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state."

Out of the Tavistock conference also came Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1968 book The Technotronic Age, that posits an information society whose basis of competition is replaced by "amusement focus" based on "spectator spectacles (mass sports and TV) providing an opiate for increasingly purposeless masses... New forms of social control may be needed to limit the indiscriminate exercise by the individual of their new powers. The possibility of extensive chemical mind control...will call for a social definition of the common criteria of restraint as well as utilization."

This is one of Obama's advisers. Voting for prez ain't gonna accomplish shit. Vote with your wallet. Buy more beans and bullets and get prepared for the long haul. As McCain and others have said this is going to be a long war (100yrs). And the war they were speaking of is against US not foreign countries.

If you wanna keep playing their games in their political system that's up to you. I wouldn't expect everyone to question the game itself.

[satya]

It is apparent that the "Ministry of Truth", ie mainstream media, is pushing Obama down our throats.  You can best believe that if the MSM is feeding us that propaganda, Obama is their guy.