As President of The Hauser Foundation and a former member of President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Dr. Rita Hauser is an expert in international law and foreign policy. She is also a lifelong Republican who supports Barack Obama because the challenges we face require a leader who can bring Americans together and restore our leadership in the world.
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Rita E. Hauser, New York City, international lawyer and former member of President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
“The invasion of Iraq was an error with serious geo-political consequences. Obama promises an orderly and responsible U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, whereas McCain will continue our combat involvement throughout his term in office. McCain will continue the wrong-headed foreign policy decisions of Bush, while Obama will take us in a new direction."http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-fljjpshauser1014jjpsoct14,0,3577274.story
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Vote for Obama, lifelong Republican tells women
By David A. Schwartz
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
October 14, 2008
Rita Hauser is a lifelong Republican. But early last week the founder of Republicans for Obama urged about 100 Jewish women meeting at a home in Boca Raton to vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate."My party has lost its way," Hauser said at the home of Obama supporter Lisa Rosenfeld. Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, whom she knows, has embraced the extreme element of the Republican Party, Hauser said.
McCain is not calm and collected, Hauser said. "More important to me, John is erratic. The John of today is not the John of 2000," she said.
In contrast, Obama, Hauser said, is thoughtful. "He listens to all different views," she said. He has a sort of tranquillity, an inner peace and an inner calm and "a lot of people in America are going to reach that conclusion."
Hauser called McCain "pugnacious" and "bellicose," and said he is not the person to achieve compromise and peace between Israel and its enemies in the Middle East.
Halie Soifer, the Obama campaign's Jewish vote director in Florida and a former legislative aide to Congressman Robert Wexler, said McCain wants to continue the war in Iraq. The war, she said, has had a destabilizing effect on Israel.
Obama has a "vision for a new policy" and would work toward restarting the peace process in Israel in the early days of his administration, Soifer said. "You as Floridians hold the key to this election. Florida matters. If we win Florida, we will win this election."
A late September survey by the American Jewish Committee indicated that 57 percent of Jewish voters would vote for Obama, while 30 percent would vote for McCain.
A similar poll conducted by the AJC in September 2004 showed 69 percent of Jewish voters would vote for Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and 24 percent for President George W. Bush. Kerry ultimately received 75 percent of the Jewish vote.
Hauser said that main street Republicans are "shocked to their core" by the profligacy of the Bush administration during which the United States has become the largest debtor in the world.
In the Nov. 4 election "Republicans are going to be the margin of difference," she said.
"We're facing a global financial crisis," Hauser said. "We have to turn the page. We have to try something different. We need a leader who can bring people together, who can inspire."
Doris Kuperstock of Boca Raton said Obama is "100 percent for Israel. People are trying to bring that wedge in to the Jewish community." The Obama candidacy inspires feelings of hope and security, Kuperstock said. "The country's crying out for leadership."
Lorrie Berkowitz, a Boca Raton resident who said she voted for Hillary Clinton in the Florida Democratic Presidential primary, said she favors Obama. "He's going to make progress because the world is listening to him. He will bring people to the table," she said.
"[Obama] has an exit strategy for the war in Iraq," said Alisa Cohen of Boca Raton, who with her physician husband are the only Democrats in their circle of physician couples. Cohen said she has two sons ages 23 and 18 and is afraid a draft will be instituted if the United States doesn't get out of Iraq.
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