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In reply to the discussion: Damning New Evidence Shows How Israel Bribed Republican Traitors To Sabotage Obama On Iran Deal [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)If bribery (er, campaign contributions) don't work, there is always dirty tricks. In '12, the head of the county Obama Democratic campaign committee (the son of a famous, long-serving progressive Democratic VA Congressman) was stung by a "GOP" operative.
Someone walked into the campaign office and the campaign chairman humored him for a few minutes while the shady character pitched a vaguely shady voter registration scheme. The shady character was wearing a hidden camera and turned out to working for Project Veritas, the James OKeefe-led organization whose other undercover videos fed the GOP attack on ACORN.
AIPAC and the GOP had been trying for decades to unseat the Congressman. He said in 2007 that AIPAC is the most powerful lobby that pushed for the Iraq War since the beginning, the Washington Post reported. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402171.html
I dont think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized, the Congressman said about AIPAC. And their members are extraordinarily powerfulmost of them are quite wealthythey have been able to exert power.