When the Canaries Get Nervous, Get Out of the Mine

This is from Women in Green. Naomi Ragen, an American Jew in Israel, explains why Jews need to vote for McCain, in order to preserve their beleaguered nation. I can’t link to it, because it’s not on the web. It came via email, so I will have to republish the entire piece. I put one sentence in boldface.

Why I Voted for John McCain
By Naomi Ragen

The first election I remember clearly was that of John F. Kennedy. I was a
little girl at the time, but the handsome candidate won my heart, and the
election. For decades the differences between Democrats and Republicans in
America have been slight, with one candidate a little more articulate or
photogenic than the other, but certainly both were capable, patriotic, and
experienced.

This election ­ probably one of the most important in the history of America
­ changes all that. Faced with hostile forces which threaten all of us in
the free and civilized world, Americans experienced just how dangerous their
position is on 9/11, when there safe, protected world came crashing down on
their surprised and unsuspecting heads. In this election, Americans either
choose to continue fighting those forces by voting for John McCain ­ a
staunch patriot and war hero, or to give in and give up by choosing Barack
Hussein Obama, a virtual unknown who wants to slash America’s defenses, lose
her war in Iraq, and start unconditional talks with homicidal maniacs that
threaten us all with atomic war.

I trust John McCain on security. He is the son and grandson of four star
navy admirals. He has a son serving in Iraq. He was tortured in a
Vietnamese prison for five and a half years, and wouldn’t let his father ­
supreme commander of all U.S. forces in that war- use pull (protekzia, as we
say in Israel) to get him out before others. He understands the importance
of winning the war in Iraq to Israel’s security. As he said: “We are engaged
in a basic struggle between humanity and inhumanity; between builders and
destroyers. If fighting these people is not intrinsic to the national
security and most cherished values of the United States, I don’t know what
is.”

Barack Hussein Obama, on the other hand, is the son of a white woman from
Kansas and a Black Muslim from Kenya. He has never served in the military.
His spiritual mentor is Rev. Wright, a Black racist and anti-Semite who
preaches ‘God damn America’ from the pulpit. Obama calls himself a “citizen
of the world,” and is popular with European-haters of America. He has other
close friends who hate America, including domestic terrorist Bill Ayers who
blew up buildings in the sixties, and planned to blow up the Pentagon. Obama
is also friends with Israel-hating Rashid Khalidi who had close ties with
the PLO, and indicted Syrian-American slumlord Tony Rezko. He has lied
about these connections. But about this he has told the truth: if elected,
Obama one of his first acts as president will be to remove U.S. troops from
Iraq and to hold unconditional talks with terrorists like Ahmadinejad.

The Democrats have run a very, very expensive campaign, financed by million
of dollars of foreign donations (which are illegal), including money from
Arabs in Gaza, to hide these facts. They have succeeded in convincing Jews
to believe what they are told, not what they should be able to see with
their own eyes. It is estimated seventy-five percent of Jews in the U.S.
will vote for Obama- the opposite of the Jews in Israel. They will vote
for him to feel that they are ‘enlightened’, overcoming any prejudice
against a Muslim and a Black man. They will vote for him because they have
been told he will be better for the economy (he won’t. He’ll destroy the
U.S. economy with new taxes, ) They will vote for him because instead of
G-d, they believe in abortion rights, they don’t really care what is best
for Israel, and because they want to feel like liberal Americans who read
the New York Times, not ethnic outsiders.

People like me are harder to convince. That tends to happen to you when you
are in the same building with a Hamas terrorist who has just blown himself
up in the hope he can take you and your family with him. I voted for John
McCain, and so did every other American in Israel I know, Jew and gentile,
religious and secular.