LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama is the wrong choice for all

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Posted: 11/11/08

To the Editor:

In response to "A Jewish issue" (Nov. 4 issue), American Jews have lost any sense of allegiance to their people and have put Israel into a very dangerous position, electing someone openly described as the "stealth candidate" by hiding his beliefs, philosophy or positions. To vote for someone based on negative reasons, because you didn't like the other candidate, is to abandon responsibility to the winds of change. You would think that Jews, who suffered the Holocaust, would be more careful about riding the public sentiment based on anger and disillusionment, voting someone without joy in his heart or even love, a totally political animal. Nothing he has said or done indicates that he cares about anyone other than himself, and isn't that what we suffered from the last eight years and longer? Who says Obama will be a good president or is even qualified? It is the ultimate form of moral relativism to elect someone out of an antipathy to the other side. It is a form of moral and willful blindness, and the reason to be a Jew is to never falter in the difficulty of taking moral positions that aren't comfortable. Enjoy the ride to oblivion, because that is where Obama will lead to.

-Ian Zwerling

Israel