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Obama Will Address Aipac This Friday …
… at a foreign policy forum in Chicago.

In recent days, Jewish politicos were buzzing about when and where the upstart presidential contender would make his first Jewish campaign stop. While there had been some speculation that Obama would speak at this week's plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., one Democratic insider told the Forward that he believed the senator was under pressure to visit his old Chicago supporters.

According to Dan Shapiro, Obama's advisor on outreach to the Jewish community, the speech will fall somewhere between a major address and an informal conversation.

Obama is trying to get a jump on Aipac's major Washington gathering in a couple of weeks, which will be crowded with candidates

Hand-wringing commences now...

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Campaign Confidential
America's top independent Jewish news source supplies the daily dish on politics and public policy.


Obama Will Address Aipac This Friday …
… at a foreign policy forum in Chicago.

In recent days, Jewish politicos were buzzing about when and where the upstart presidential contender would make his first Jewish campaign stop. While there had been some speculation that Obama would speak at this week's plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., one Democratic insider told the Forward that he believed the senator was under pressure to visit his old Chicago supporters.

According to Dan Shapiro, Obama's advisor on outreach to the Jewish community, the speech will fall somewhere between a major address and an informal conversation.

Obama is trying to get a jump on Aipac's major Washington gathering in a couple of weeks, which will be crowded with candidates

http://www.forward.com/blogs/campaign-confidential/obama-will-address-aipac-this-friday/

Seems like 36 would be bumping the poverty line for a city that size, is all. I guess it's not New York. My hometown of about 12,000, does better than that... and Cedarburg and Port Washington both do A LOT better than that. Yeeks, upon further checking New York doesn't do much better than Chicago. How the hell can anyone afford to live there? Houses cost 2 and 3 times as much.

Berkeley earns more and spends less on a house than New Yorkers. I think both collectives are nuts.

Opinion appreciated, but I don't see it. Two new polls out today at Pollingreport.com, both showing Obama continuing to cut into Hillary's lead and Giuliani running away from the pack. Compromise is the name of the game and there's hardly a right-winger out there that wouldn't vote Ralph Nader to keep Hillary out, if he thought he had to. Cheats-on-his-wife-likes-queers-and-abortion Vs. a Democrat (). No contest (Especially if it's Hillary).

Now it will surprise me not at all if (when?) Obama passes Hillary by for the same reason. She's favored now, but she's already not stacking up as well in the general polls. To the left: Black man with a funny name and little experience Vs. a Republican () No contest.

Meanwhile; all of us in the middle rejoice! I'd like to believe (and I do) that the country is sick and tired of hyper-polarization... and Obama and Giuliani are perfect candidates in this respect... and I don't believe for a second that the fringe-bases are up for grabs... or that they'll lose their appetites for hyper-polarization. There can be little question that dislike for the opposition was the driving force in the last election; because neither one of those guys were very likeable.

Ps. Sorry about the tangent, Soz.

Cheats-on-his-wife-likes-queers-and-abortion Vs. a Democrat

Cheats-on-his-wife-likes-queers-and-abortion Vs. Cheats-on-his-wife-likes-queers-and-abortion

By the way I don't consider the stuff you guys were talking about tangential, Bill, don't worry.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the senator's ancestors "are representative of America."

"While a relative owned slaves, another fought for the Union in the Civil War," Burton said. "And it is a true measure of progress that the descendant of a slave owner would come to marry a student from Kenya and produce a son who would grow up to be a candidate for president of the United States."

"It was the first time in my life that I thought about why my name is Sharpton," he said. "I mean this whole thing is as personal as why your name is what it is. You're named after someone who owned your great-grandparents."