(Carl) Five years ago, when Mitt Romney opened his Presidential campaign at the Henry Ford Museum, which is named for one of America's most notorious anti-Semites, one of the first to criticize him was Ira Forman, then director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, and now President Obama's liaison to the Jewish community, was the first out of the gate to criticize Romney. Now, with President Obama about to appear at the same museum, Forman and the NJDC are both silent.
“Once again the NJDC has one set of rules when it comes to Republicans and a different standard as it relates to Democrats,” said Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the NJDC’s chief political rival.
“We see the shameless hypocrisy of the NJDC, which was so quick to attack Mitt Romney for an event he held at the Ford Museum, yet remains silent when Obama hosts a major event at the same Museum,” Brooks added.
Another longtime political insider said that the NJDC has become an ineffective embarrassment to the Democrats.
“They are a shameless organization that time has already forgotten, and the next time we see a press release from them attacking Mitt Romney for hosting an event supposedly with anti-Semites, the voters will know there is no validity to such claims,” said a senior GOP adviser who tracks the Jewish community.
The insider added, “The NJDC, heretofore, has lost all credibility on these issues. It can never again attack a Republican candidate on issues like anti-Semitism.”
The NJDC has become Obama's Jewish council, with a commitment to liberalism and to Obama, but no commitment to anything Jewish. Is anyone really surprised?
I have a question for Romney. Instead of pointing out how the Democrats are as bad as you are... do you think you could apologize for mentioning a false 1967 Border in a PBS interview?
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