If Barak Obama really wanted to court the Jewish vote successfully he would come out strongly in support of releasing Jonathan Pollard on strictly humanitarian grounds. This man has already paid for his crime ten times over and has spent more time behind bars that other people who have spied for the Soviet Union and other powers who were hostile to the United States.

Clinton will not free him and neither will McCain upon advice of his potential running mate, Lieberman. There is nothing to be gained by keeping this man locked up for life in solitary confinement. He is no longer a threat to American interests.

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