In short, one more reason to vote Obama out of office.

Have you heard of Sholom Rubashkin? He is a philanthropist, father, husband, son, brother, and entrepreneur; The man who transformed a small kosher meat plant in Postville, Iowa into the biggest and most successful kosher meat operation in the world. That is until he was convicted on 86 counts of bank fraud and sentenced to 27 years of prison. Murderers, like Lemrick Nelson the man who stabbed Yankel Rosenbaum to death during a Black on Jewish riot- often receive single digit sentences. The fact that this is Rubashkin’s first conviction of any sort raises the question:

Why was a 51 year old man, basically given a life sentence, (if this ruling stands Rubashkin will be 77 when he is eligible for parole), for a first offense, when others convicted under similar circumstances were not?

Many in the Jewish community have offered the hackneyed, but substantial explanation, that anti-Semitism is at play. They offer historic evidence of America's legal record of dealing with high-profile Jewish criminals. For example the Rosenbergs, Jonathon Pollard , and Bernie Madoff. All of these infamous Jews were convicted criminals, and received severe sentences. Despite what Huffington Post and like-minded commentators will have you believe, Jack Abramoff was an exception not the rule, because of his connections in the white-house.

Others, mainly a few legal scholars, argue that the judge (who also happens to be the second harshest sentence producer in the nation)didn’t really have a choice.

Still there is another possible explanation.

It takes us back to 2006/2007 when two powerful organizations, PETA and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, confronted Rubashkin.

PETA, the extremist animal-advocacy organization, has been targeting and besmirching kosher slaughter as inhuman for over a decade. This despite the fact that kosher slaughter is practiced as it is because it is considered the most humane manner of slaughter. Rubashkin's Agriprocessers, like most kosher slaughter houses practicing a millennia old tradition, refused to bow to PETA. Next, PETA turned to the far-left advocacy block to help them bring down Rubashkin.

The second organization, and by far the most significant, was the labor union which tried to shake Rubashkin down and at the same time force his employees to join their union.

This is key to understanding the Rubashkin case. After all who are the two biggest groups supporting Obama? Our president, a community activist, was put in power not so much by Jews as he was by the still-powerful unions. Who supported Obama in his bid for the presidency? The Unions and the far-left (not that the far-left is homogeneous, but PETA draws strongly from far-left ideology) of course.

This argument is bolstered by recent history -Obama has not shied away from putting his weight behind the unions before.

After a series of over-publicized Toyota brake mishaps, the administration's transportation secretary Ray Lahood, testified in front of congress on February 3rd of this year that “if anybody owns one of these vehicles [Toyota], stop driving it.” Anyone in the industry can tell you that all companies experience problems of the same magnitude.

The Obama administration had no problem interfering with our “free” enterprise and gave a tremendous edge to Toyota’s major competitor in America -owned by America- GM.

It should come as no surprise that the Rubashkin conviction was a result not only of a law and order judge gone-wild (with tenure), and residual anti-Semitism, but more so as a consequence of the unions/Obama partnership.

No I'm not saying this is Obama's fault, only that Rubashkins sentence would have been a lot less likely under a president that wasn't in bed with the Unions.

In short, one more reason to vote Obama out of office.