From The Huffington Post:
Jonny Daniels, a leading Republican political strategist in Israel, told The Huffington Post that the campaign had been aware of the date of the holiday when it scheduled the fundraiser. The campaign thought it could hold the event in a way that would not offend, he said, but was taken by surprise at the ferocity of the public outcry over the timing.
“It wasn’t really a gaffe,” Daniels said. “They knew what the day was, but they were looking for the correct time and circumstance to do it. Instead it ended up seeming like a big dinner, but that’s not really what it is.”
“Don’t worry, they’re not going to not have a fundraiser,” he added. “They’ll find a way around it maybe by having a breaking of the fast meal combined with a Romney fundraiser.”
Let me ask you a question… if the DNC had a leading political strategist in Mexico of Kenya, what do you think the out cry would be?
When you elections are decided in another country, friends, you aren’t free.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Next stop, Poland. Please, Mitt, no Polish jokes.
On a more serious side, Why Poland? I fully expect Mitt to say we should have built the anti-missile defense system in Poland. HUGE cost (of course, the U.S. pays for it all). Questionable effectiveness. Not very Russia friendly (how would we like the Russians to build a missile defense system in Cuba). Been there, done that (OK, it was offensive, not defensive). But the difference between offensive and defensive missile “sets” is not very great. Just change the warhead and guidance system. Russia isn’t stupid. My point – cut everything at home, education, health care, social security, road and infrastructure building…..but spend billions on another weapon system – based in Poland? I hope Mitt doesn’t take this approach, but I do not see what other reason he would go to Poland, unless he likes Polish sausage. Can’t be the Polish beer and vodka.
Forgot to mention, Star Wars missile defense system in space was cut too. Didn’t make us take a missile in Omaha (STRATCOM – been there, done that).