Ed Koch endorses Obama!
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Now we know we're on the right track!
Mr. Koch, a Democrat, had just a few months ago been so unhappy with Mr. Obama’s posture toward Israel that he endorsed the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, over the Democrat, Assemblyman David I. Weprin, in the Sept. 13 special election to replace Anthony D. Weiner in Congress. Mr. Turner won the race, in part thanks to votes from a sizable Orthodox Jewish community.
The Jewish vote was apparently influenced in part by Mr. Koch’s argument — made in automated telephone calls, news conferences and mailings — that Jewish voters could send a message to President Obama by voting against Mr. Weprin. After Mr. Turner’s victory, Mr. Koch threatened to continue raising his concerns on a national stage, suggesting that he would consider campaigning against Mr. Obama in battleground states like Florida.
But now that’s all over, Mr. Koch said Tuesday. He announced his change of heart in a weekly e-mail to supporters, in which he described attending a reception last Wednesday evening for United Nations delegates at the New York Public Library, hosted by the president and first lady.
Mr. Koch noted that the last time he was invited to such an event was when he was mayor and Ronald Reagan was president. In the e-mail, Mr. Koch wrote that Mr. Obama deserved praise for intervening to protect Israeli diplomats in Cairo and for providing Israel with military equipment and cooperation “far exceeding his predecessors.” He declared that he was “now on board the Obama Re-election Express.”
In the e-mail, he said that he thought that the outcome of the special Congressional election had influenced United States Middle East policy “in a positive way.”