McCain Adviser: Christian Right a "Serious Problem"

Yesterday representatives of Clinton, Obama and McCain spoke before the United Jewish Communities. Obama liaison Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Israel, tried to put an end to Obama's so-called "Jewish problem," denouncing the false emails that are circulating wildly around the net about him.

"There's a question in the community that's unfortunately been stimulated and stirred about and played with in e-mails and innuendos and newspaper articles that suggests that there's something wrong with Senator Obama's views about Jews, about Israel," Kurtzner said, according to Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. "There are nagging doubts, there are e-mails, there are innuendos: These are the kinds of things which we as a community have suffered over the years at the hands of anti-Semites."

Clinton adviser Ann Lewis tacked to the right, criticizing Obama for saying he'd meet with the President of Iran and for suggesting that a US President needn't have to echo the policies of the Likud Party in order to be "pro-Israel." "The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel," Lewis said. "It is not up to us to pick and choose from among the political parties."

McCain Advisor Lawrence Eagleburger, deputy secretary of State under Bush I, tacked to the right of both, saying McCain "will not talk with the Syrians, will not talk with the Iranians, will not talk with Hamas and Hezbollah...He isn't going to push the Israelis." More