I’m an afficionado of Jewish campaign buttons. I think the Republican Jewish Coalition might be first out of the gate with this one:
As long as I’m talking RJC, I forgot to blog, awhile back, this effective ad.
Effective, not because I agree or disagree with its premise — that President Obama is untrustworthy when it comes to Israel — but because of how it uses criticism of the president from Democrats, and in proper context.
Each of the Democrats featured will tell you that things have changed since then — the president gets it now. (Eliot Engel, for instance, told me this in an interview when the video was posted last month.)
The RJC answer to that argument — expressed, for instance, today in this tweet — is that a President Obama without the prospect of reelection is dangerous for Israel.
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