Obama: Opponents trying to weaken my support in Jewish community

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Topic subject Obama: Opponents trying to weaken my support in Jewish community
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4252378, Obama: Opponents trying to weaken my support in Jewish community
Posted by oberliner on Mon Jan-28-08 04:53 PM

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Monday that there is a "constant virulent campaign" being waged against him as he strives to win the party's nomination, aimed particularly at weakening support for him from within the Jewish community.

Obama told Haaretz and writers from several Jewish-American newspapers that the campaign against him - calling him Muslim and accusing him of not pledging allegiance to the United States - is especially visible in the Jewish community.

The presidential hopeful said he would ordinarily ignore such comments, but he fears that they have been "getting some traction" and are being tuned into by public ears.

Thus he said, he has asked the Jewish newspapers and Haaretz to use their "megaphone" so people can hear "from the horse's mouth" that all such accusations against him are unfounded.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948960.html