Why do American Jews still support this President? In 2008, Obama received 78% of the Jewish vote. A recent Gallup poll reported that Jewish support had dropped to 54% in the late summer of 2011 while a September 2011 poll by the American Jewish Council had the number down to 45%. Some reality testing has begun to take place in the Jewish community, but frankly, unless Obama bows down toward Mecca on a prayer rug in the Oval Office after signing an executive order requiring Jews to wear yellow armbands in public, he will still receive a plurality of the Jewish vote in 2012. Perhaps this stunning article by Andrew McCarthy in NRO might change a few more Jewish, and Christian, votes in November. ...the Obama administration has turned to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood's leading jurist, to mediate secret negotiations between the United States and the Taliban. [...] For those who may be unfamiliar with him, he is the most influential Sunni Islamist in the world... in...(Read Full Post)