Consider any significant historical figure and ask yourself if that person was liked during his or her lifetime. Quite the contrary, most of our heroes were despised by their fellow humans while they lived, and even reviled by others long after they've left our planet. Here's just a few: Martin Luther, his namesake Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandhi, Joan of Arc, Paul the Apostle, and Jesus Christ… the list goes on.

Even Richard Nixon might have been a positive historical figure had he not grown paranoid worrying about his "likeability." Look at the short list of greats above and note that none of these figures were concerned about being liked — they were only concerned about doing what they knew was right.

BTW, I don't like Hillary Clinton either, but if she's effective and doesn't concern herself with thoughts of being liked, she may make a good President…

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/891358.html

Hillary seems to be intelligent, which for my part would suffice to like her, I once did, I think she mastered the Clinton-Levinsky (sp?) affair brilliantly.

Neither do I know if I like Obama. Maybe I do, but mainly because he seems to be one of the very, very few that carefully tries to show a way, I would have loved to see during the last election. I seem to turn into a mid-night observer of US elections lately.

Don't worry, I can't vote. But I hope US people will vote in really high numbers on the agendas, and admittedly I wish there was a huge information campaign for all the people with not much time to inform themselves, the ones that are easily caught in the nets of the nice slogans. claims and other tools of my colleagues, the PR professionals. And yes, they would agree, likeability is all.

And your cookie-cutter performances are clearly not about anti-Semitism, because the internet is full of truly anti-Semitic sites, where your sleepy, monotone, diluted sarcasm plus/minus pathetic staged rage would not be completely out of place (although a tablespoon of authenticity wouldn't hurt).
But you do not go there, you hang out here and this is because you, obviously, do not give a shit about antisemitism, its just a camouflage. And in your case, its a see-though camouflage. But, Billy, its STUPID to still wear that see-though whorish cammo when everyone already knows who you are and kids are pointing at you and yell: "Look look, see the one that has boobs on his head? Its not a bull, its a bullshit Bill Pearlman!"

… How I really miss someone who would actually bring an intellectually rigorous pro-Israel argument here! Or at least an INTERESTING one!

But is that all you have to say? How come you are so literate when you dump on other people and suddenly so shy when your own ass being whopped?
Billy, if you really thought I was a Russian anti-Semite, you would already won my $25,000. The whole blog saw you running for cover as soon as I caught you by your filty split tongue and offer you to have my Jewishness decided by a third party! No, you know a Jewish bro when you see one!
You have no decency and no credibility left, Billy, none whatsoever!
So, eat your crow dinner and crawl someplace else, where people do not know you yet.