As if the blind leading the blind could not be any worse?
Judge Ed Koch declares (and rightly, so) that Obama has thrown Israel under the bus. This president has spent more time appeasing hostile Arabs and chastising Israel than supporting real overtures to peace, like demanding that terrorist groups in the West Bank, Gaza, and throughout the Middle East respect the Jewish State's right to exist.
The Republicans swept disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner's house seat by ten points in a three-to-one Democratic enclave of Long Island. This incumbent's progressive policies are some of the most regressive in modern times, pushing left-leaning states to promote Republicans to statewide and federal offices in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and swing-states Florida and Virginia. With more Americans looking for work, eking out a thread-bare existence on unemployment, and cashing in on food stamps than in recent memory, Obama has brought nothing but "mope and mange" to a nation that wanted more than "more of the same."
Raphe Sonenshein has argued convincingly that the GOP's stance on social issues has alienated many Jews from supporting Republican candidates. I think that the People of the Book ought to look past the red-state blue-state hype and focus on the long-term damage that this president is waging on this nation's rights, liberties, and capitalist foundation.
If "Tikkun olam" means repairing the world, Jews could start the healing by ejecting in November the illiberal, out-of-touch, and frustrating President Barack Obama.