re: #3 Destro

I understand why the Democrats need to do this - but it is because the USA is still composed of a sizable population of wing nuts and thus the Democrats need to inoculate themselves against the crazies - and America it seems has lots of crazies that vote.

I am not a wingnut, nor am I a crazy, nor a Republican and neither are the Democrats who voted to put the language back. They did it because Jerusalem IS the capitol of Israel!

Obama, himself, personally wanted the language changed back and didn’t know why it was changed in the first place.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/candidates/obama/2012/09/05/sources-obama-intervened-platform/oXB4Gtpdy2f2C5R5I9lf7L/story.html

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Campaign officials say President Barack Obama personally intervened to change language in his party’s platform on Jerusalem and God.

Democrats amended their convention platform Wednesday to add a mention on God and declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

The officials said Obama’s reaction on the omission of God from the platform was to wonder why it was removed in the first place.

GOP challenger Mitt Romney said omitting a reference to God suggested Democrats were out of touch with mainstream America. Republicans also said omitting a reference to Jerusalem showed Obama was weak on Israel.

The officials requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about private discussions.

Talk that Obama is weak on Israel is more BS by the Republicans to sway Jewish votes. It doesn’t match anything the President has done to support Israel, more than any other President before him.

Ehud Barak on Obama.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/79162.html

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak said Monday that when it comes to his nation’s security, the Obama administration is doing “more than anything that I can remember in the past.”

“I think that from my point of view as defense minister they are extremely good, extremely deep and profound,” Barak, a former Israeli prime minister, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I can see long years, um, administrations of both sides of political aisle deeply supporting the state of Israeli and I believe that reflects a profound feeling among the American people. But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.”

And if that upsets anyone, too bad.