Comments on: Gov Sununu: ‘From the Day They Announce, Every Politician Is Lobbied on an Issue that Has Nothing to Do With Their District’ (Guess the Issue) http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Sun, 27 May 2012 21:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: jonathan ekman http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63744 jonathan ekman Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63744 <p>I fear that the restless natives are few<br /> in number and politically powerless, but they<br /> should be encouraged to read The Transparent<br /> Cabal by Stephen Sniegoski, to be published<br /> in June 2008.</p> I fear that the restless natives are few
in number and politically powerless, but they
should be encouraged to read The Transparent
Cabal by Stephen Sniegoski, to be published
in June 2008.

]]> By: Richard Witty http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63745 Richard Witty Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63745 <p>What specific question are you asking, Phil?</p> <p>"The Walt/Mearsheimer" question is not a question.</p> What specific question are you asking, Phil?

"The Walt/Mearsheimer" question is not a question.

]]> By: Richard Witty http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63746 Richard Witty Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63746 <p>From Sununu's comments, I didn't get that he resented the lobbying, soft and all.</p> <p>If I were running for office, I would assume that a gamut of perspectives would be brought to me.</p> <p>Why shouldn't people's perspectives on Israel be brought to a representative?</p> From Sununu's comments, I didn't get that he resented the lobbying, soft and all.

If I were running for office, I would assume that a gamut of perspectives would be brought to me.

Why shouldn't people's perspectives on Israel be brought to a representative?

]]> By: bill http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63747 bill Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63747 <p>Richard, you coveniently miss the point. It's very expensive to run for office, but I will provide the $'s if you agree to ....<br /> in olden days it used to be called bribery!</p> Richard, you coveniently miss the point. It's very expensive to run for office, but I will provide the $'s if you agree to ….
in olden days it used to be called bribery!

]]> By: Michael Blaine http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63748 Michael Blaine Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63748 <p>"Sununu is a nuclear engineer."</p> <p>"Sununu is also an Arab-American."</p> <p>Hey, I thought Arabs were innately unable to handle tough academic subjects! </p> <p>(At least, that's what was asserted here a few weeks ago by a handful of commenters.)</p> "Sununu is a nuclear engineer."

"Sununu is also an Arab-American."

Hey, I thought Arabs were innately unable to handle tough academic subjects!

(At least, that's what was asserted here a few weeks ago by a handful of commenters.)

]]> By: Michael Blaine http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63749 Michael Blaine Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63749 <p>"I fear that the restless natives are few<br /> in number and politically powerless."</p> <p>I agree.</p> "I fear that the restless natives are few
in number and politically powerless."

I agree.

]]> By: Jim Haygood http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63750 Jim Haygood Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63750 <p>"There is nobody who has run for office in this country who has not been soft lobbied the day they announce that they are going to run and not been hard lobbied after they win." - John Sununu</p> <p>This is exactly what Paul Findley said 23 years ago in "They Dare To Speak Out." Nothing has changed. The stories remain consistent. What also never changes is that only retired politicians tell these frank stories. Serving ones can't, because the money sources who wanted to grill Phil's friend on settlements would run a primary challenger against them -- as Paul Findley found out.</p> <p>Isn't it SHOCKING that plutocratic billionaires want to fund West Bank settlements? Ongoing settlement expansion, for another forty years, implies some kind of Final Solution in which the Palestinians are starved or driven out entirely. Occasionally the Israeli right wing actually blurts out such sentiments.</p> <p>Nuclear-armed Israel is surely the world's most dangerous rogue state. One can only describe its billionaire backers in New York as gangsters. Oops, my phone's ringing; it's Abe Foxman on the line, and boy is he pissed ...</p> "There is nobody who has run for office in this country who has not been soft lobbied the day they announce that they are going to run and not been hard lobbied after they win." – John Sununu

This is exactly what Paul Findley said 23 years ago in "They Dare To Speak Out." Nothing has changed. The stories remain consistent. What also never changes is that only retired politicians tell these frank stories. Serving ones can't, because the money sources who wanted to grill Phil's friend on settlements would run a primary challenger against them — as Paul Findley found out.

Isn't it SHOCKING that plutocratic billionaires want to fund West Bank settlements? Ongoing settlement expansion, for another forty years, implies some kind of Final Solution in which the Palestinians are starved or driven out entirely. Occasionally the Israeli right wing actually blurts out such sentiments.

Nuclear-armed Israel is surely the world's most dangerous rogue state. One can only describe its billionaire backers in New York as gangsters. Oops, my phone's ringing; it's Abe Foxman on the line, and boy is he pissed …

]]> By: Charles Keating http://mondoweiss.net/2008/03/john-sununu-bus.html/comment-page-1#comment-63751 Charles Keating Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/04/john-sununu-bus.html#comment-63751 <p>Our top military leaders also wait until they are retired to blow<br /> the whistle on Israel pandering--Bill is correct, Witty missed the point; he does so, so often it makes one think it's intentional. </p> Our top military leaders also wait until they are retired to blow
the whistle on Israel pandering–Bill is correct, Witty missed the point; he does so, so often it makes one think it's intentional.

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