Sarah Silverman, Israeli Production Team, Go To Bat For Obama

Barack Obama is getting an assist among Jewish voters from two different short films that couldn't be more disparate in message or nature. On Wednesday, Sarah Silverman, wielding a restrained but still sharp tongue, launched "the Great Schlep," a video designed to persuade Jewish youth to visit their grandparents in Florida and persuade them to vote for Obama. "If Barack Obama doesn't become the next president of the United States," she begins, "I'm going to blame the Jews." The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo . As Silverman was resorting to shame and sarcasm as a GOTV tool, an Israeli production team went after Jewish voters by addressing substantive issues. Titled "Israelis for Obama," the video they launched features prominent and regular figures from the Middle Eastern country praising the Senator as a friend of Israel and directly addressing the smears launched at his candidacy. "I think all the attempts to try and frame him ... (link)