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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Liberals the wrong choice for Israel
Letters to the Editor | 11/11/08
Posted online at 4:02 AM EST on 11/11/08
To the Editor:
This article ("A Jewish issue," Nov. 4 issue) looks as if it was written under the influence of some soporific drug, and the subjects of the article seem to have been speaking under the same influence. I believe that when I, a Jewish Brandeis alumnus, voted for John McCain, I was quite sober. Do you really believe that preferring Obama to McCain is "just as good" for Israel? I wonder-how much confidence are you placing in liberalism in order to take this gamble? Throughout my life, I have placed my confidence in the wisdom of the American people. I want to believe that the Obama vote is one of common sense. However, since I detect that the United States has lost much of what I consider to be its "good social order," I cannot hold as much confidence in the traditionally presumed sagacity of the electorate. Yet, I will hold my peace and pray for Obama to prove me wrong. I certainly pray that he does, especially regarding Israel. I hope I am wrong about his connection with the likes of Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright, who seem to be no good friends of the Jewish people or Israel. I also pray that, because of its lockstep liberalism, American Jewry has not appointed itself its own Judas goat, and, through the mass hypnosis of the Obama campaign, has not become complicit in opening a path to Israel's destruction. If Obama does well by our country and by Israel, nobody will be more pleased than I will be to admit a gross error in judgment.
-Paul Trusten '73
This article ("A Jewish issue," Nov. 4 issue) looks as if it was written under the influence of some soporific drug, and the subjects of the article seem to have been speaking under the same influence. I believe that when I, a Jewish Brandeis alumnus, voted for John McCain, I was quite sober. Do you really believe that preferring Obama to McCain is "just as good" for Israel? I wonder-how much confidence are you placing in liberalism in order to take this gamble? Throughout my life, I have placed my confidence in the wisdom of the American people. I want to believe that the Obama vote is one of common sense. However, since I detect that the United States has lost much of what I consider to be its "good social order," I cannot hold as much confidence in the traditionally presumed sagacity of the electorate. Yet, I will hold my peace and pray for Obama to prove me wrong. I certainly pray that he does, especially regarding Israel. I hope I am wrong about his connection with the likes of Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright, who seem to be no good friends of the Jewish people or Israel. I also pray that, because of its lockstep liberalism, American Jewry has not appointed itself its own Judas goat, and, through the mass hypnosis of the Obama campaign, has not become complicit in opening a path to Israel's destruction. If Obama does well by our country and by Israel, nobody will be more pleased than I will be to admit a gross error in judgment.
-Paul Trusten '73
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