McCain better for Israel, Pelosi SHOULD be denied communion

Seems American Jews couldn't care less about the state of Isreal. And why in the world is Pelosi still allowed to received communion? The church is clear on it's stance on communion for those who are pro-abortion, as is our pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI.

The following are both from an email that I received from NewsMax a few minutes ago:

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Israelis Still Favor McCain Over Obama

Despite Democrat Barack Obama's much-publicized recent visit to their nation, Israelis would still prefer to see his Republican rival John McCain elected president.

A new poll conducted after Obama's visit found that 38 percent of respondents said they wanted McCain in the White House, 31 percent said Obama, and 31 percent had no opinion or refused to answer.

The margin was only slightly narrower than the 9-point edge McCain held in a late June poll.

During his visit, Obama met with top Israeli politicians, visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and voiced a more hawkish stance on Iran, saying he would "take no options off the table" to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and asserting that "a nuclear Iran would be a game-changing situation not just in the Middle East but around the world."

But not all Israelis were satisfied by Obama's statements. Natan Sharansky, a former deputy Prime Minister, described Obama as a "risky" candidate for the Jewish state.

Obama "was well received and said all the things he needed to say from an Israeli perspective," Mitchell Barak, director of Keevoon Research Strategy & Communications — the Jerusalem-based company that conducted the poll — told Politico.

But pollster Barak told the Boston Globe that several factors are problematic for Obama among Israeli Jews. He cited Obama's willingness to meet with Iranian leaders as one.

A Keevoon poll in Israel on May 15, before Hillary Clinton bowed out of the Democratic race, had McCain the preferred candidate over Obama by a margin of 43 percent to 20 percent, the Jerusalem Post reported.

In the new poll, Israeli soldiers preferred Obama over McCain, 55 percent to 35 percent, despite McCain's heralded military service. That may be "a function of age," according to Politico, because the poll found that 18-to-24-year-olds preferred Obama by a 49 percent to 30 percent margin.

A Gallup Poll in May found that American Jews preferred Obama over McCain, 61 percent to 32 percent.

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Speaker Pelosi's Church Hasn't Withheld Communion

Some Catholic politicians who support abortion rights have clashed with the Church over receiving communion, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not had problems receiving the sacrament.

In a recent interview with C-SPAN, Pelosi was asked about the objections some church officials have raised regarding whether presidential candidates, including John Kerry and Rudy Giuliani, should receive communion.
She responded that she has not encountered such difficulties at her San Francisco church.

"I think some of it is regional," the California Democrat said. "It depends on the bishop of a certain region and fortunately for me, communion has not been withheld, and I'm a regular communicant so that would be a severe blow to me if that were the case."

Pelosi did not directly talk about how her pro-abortion rights position is at odds with the Church, The Hill newspaper reported.

In 2004 when John Kerry was a presidential candidate, top Vatican prelate Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — the future Pope Benedict XVI — told American bishops that communion must be denied to Catholic politicians who support legal abortion.

Several bishops did say they would refuse communion for Kerry over the abortion issue.

For a time, presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, a Catholic who also supports abortion rights, sought to avoid controversy by choosing not to receive communion.

New York Cardinal Edward Egan said Giuliani broke "an understanding" with the cleric when he received communion during Pope Benedict's April visit to the U.S.