{"id":6478,"date":"2008-10-17T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2008-10-17T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T22:37:23","slug":"36-key-jews-in-the-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6478","title":{"rendered":"36 Key Jews In The 2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1029302.html\">From Haaretz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"t13\">Eli Pariser: He heads MoveOn.org, a liberal on-line advocacy group that has raised large sums for Democratic candidates.   <\/p>\n<p>Martin Peretz: The editor of The New Republic, he wrote an influential article entitled &quot;Can friends of Israel &#8211; and Jews &#8211; trust Obama? In a word, Yes.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Dennis Prager: He is an influential, outspoken and often strident nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. Despite reservations over McCain&#8217;s campaign reform bill, he has thrown his weight behind the GOP ticket. <\/p>\n<p>Penny Pritzker: She is the national finance chair of the Obama campaign. A billionaire executive, pioneer Obama supporter and scion of a well-known Jewish mega-donor family, she has taken flak over the degree of her involvement in a the failure of a bank driven by sub-prime mortgages. <\/p>\n<p>Ed Rendell: The governor of the key swing state of Pennsylvania, he is former head of the Democratic National Committee and a top Democratic campaign spokesman. <\/p>\n<p>Denise Rich: The socialite and ex-wife of disgraced billionaire Marc Rich is a Democratic megafundraiser.   <\/p>\n<p>Dennis Ross and Dan Kurtzer: They are the center-right and center-left anchors of Obama&#8217;s Middle East advisory staff.   <\/p>\n<p>Robert Rubin: The top Obama economics advisor has unsurpassed knowledge of the workings of Wall Street and was treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. <\/p>\n<p>Dan Shapiro: A former Clinton administration National Security Council official, he is a senior Mideast policy advisor and Jewish outreach coordinator for the Obama campaign. He is said to have co-written Obama&#8217;s speech before AIPAC (the pro-Israel lobby), in which the candidate declared &quot;Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided&quot; &#8211; a statement Obama later partially recanted. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Haaretz: Eli Pariser: He heads MoveOn.org, a liberal on-line advocacy group that has raised large sums for Democratic candidates. Martin Peretz: The editor of The New Republic, he wrote an influential article entitled &quot;Can friends of Israel &#8211; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13652,7575,13651,12000,11999,13650],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","tag-campaign-reform-bill","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-penny-pritzker","tag-radio-talk-show","tag-radio-talk-show-host","tag-sub-prime-mortgages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}