Are you as bowled over as I am by the hiphop and Hollywood mashup (I hope I’m using that word right) of an Obama speech with a song called "Yes We Can"? Obama feels truly oceanic to me. Something is happening out there and we don’t know what it is and middle aged stiffs like myself have to hold on and just nod our heads in wonder. I have the same unmoored feeling about society that we had as kids in the late 60s, when we listened to Dylan singing Times They Are a-Changin’. Of course Gene McCarthy stubbed out and Robert Kennedy was killed in California then, still great things were born, from racial inclusion to women’s and gay rights; and youth seems now to be demanding a similar change in the order of everything. All our hideous classifications are about to go out the window, race and class and the geography of us and them, including in the end the good-for-the-Jews stuff I grew up with and that has been rationalized and bolted down by endless militarism… Oceanic.
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Oceanic? BTW Robert Kennedy was gunned down by a Palestinian. One last point, for a guy that married out, celebrates Christmas, and wants to see Israel disappear and Jews assimilate out of existence. Phil Weiss seems to be seriously obsessed with Israel and Jewish identity. The religion itself. Not his thing.
RFK killed by a Palestinian? Yeah right, we all know Jews did that using zionist remote control cointelpro settler technology stolen from arabs . . .
I agree that the Mohel who circumcised Phil (the only thing that makes Phil a Jew)could have done us all a favor by cutting a bit more carelessly . . . maybe letting him bleed to death even. His mother would probably have an easier time living with that result . .
But let Phil have his Candyman. Maybe Santa will give him what he most desires–Obama, the second coming of Jimmy Carter.
Phil has a right to be obsessed with Israel and its "Israel first" supporters in the United States. Together they've made us the second most despised nation on the planet.
Let's make a move about this. If we get the right sexy actor–we'd make Sundance. What? Oh yeah, a distributor… Guess not.