The furor over British plans to rent embassy space in Tel Aviv from settlements-builder Lev Leviev is building. This piece in the Independent happily treats settlers as pariahs, citing the Unicef decision to take no contributions from Leviev. Even the Tory is angry about the plans. A black eye for Gordon Brown, who said he opposes settlements. I wager this plan will be scuttled. Says here that the British apologized for inviting settlers to the Queen's birthday party. Them are some sanctions with teeth!
Now think about this. Is there any mainstream American discourse around the same issue? Is Sheldon Adelson pilloried by politicians? Can Obama even attack the neocons or the settlements? Something is rotten in the state of D.C.
"the British apologized for inviting settlers to the Queen's birthday party"
I wonder if how many jewish settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are invited to the Queen's birthday party in Washington DC. I guess the number to be greater than zero.
"Can Obama even attack the neocons or the settlements?"
How about an even EASIER assignment — making populist hay from the death throes of the Bush/Hoover administration. Can Obama do it? Jackie Calmes of the Slimes says McCain is running rings around him:
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Mr. McCain on Friday was claiming to have middle-class interests at heart more than Mr. Obama. He stepped up criticism of Mr. Obama for the Democrats’ ties to the former chief executives at the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the government seized last week.
Alleging fraud and corruption at Fannie under James Johnson and Franklin Raines, both Obama supporters, Mr. McCain said, “Senator Obama did nothing and actually profited from this system of abuse and scandal” by accepting contributions from company employees.
Mr. McCain even seemed to poke at Mr. Obama’s image as aloof and intellectual — like the college lecturer Mr. Obama used to be — at a time when the Democrat is trying to connect with working-class voters. “Maybe, just this once, he could spare us the lectures and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems,” Mr. McCain said.
http://tinyurl.com/4hrpfp
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McCain is only dipping his toe in the populist waters here. But the articulate Obama has been rendered nearly speechless by the unfolding events, as his Harvard-bred elitist instincts counsel him to cast his lot with the plutocratic financiers in their $700 billion Rape of the Middle Class, rather than with the hurting wage-slave rabble.
Obama is living proof that having darkish skin doesn't confer any sort of genetic authenticity. Obama's got the polished image and the slick 'change we can believe in' jive, but his mind was hijacked decades ago by his elitist education — and he's helpless to do anything about it.
What is it with Democrats and Ivy League lawyers? Another faux 'man of the people' goes down in flames, in what ought to be the biggest electoral landslide since 1932. Rev. Jeremiah Wright could have whipped Sarah Palin with his hands tied behind his back. But Barry chickened out …
What is it with Democrats and Ivy League lawyers? Another faux 'man of the people' goes down in flames, in what ought to be the biggest electoral landslide since 1932. Rev. Jeremiah Wright could have whipped Sarah Palin with his hands tied behind his back. But Barry chickened out …
I noticed that one of my internet friends shares your pessimism. Were he would have begged to differ though is that Obamas mistake was to not have choosen Hillary as vice. … There would have been jobs for Bill he thinks, were he couldn't have done much harm.
shit I corrected that, but backward moves make things disappear:
Were he would have begged to differ though, is that Obama's mistake was to not have chosen Hillary as vice.
Quoting from Hillary's Sep. 18th statement on the financial crisis:
"Now, I represent both the workers and the homeowners, and the investment firms."
http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=303208&&
True enough … which is why, along with getting in some partisan jabs, Hillary supports the Bush/Paulson plan to buy near-worthless securities with the taxpayers' money.
Senator Huey Long would have been roasting Paulson, Bernanke and the investment bankers over an open bonfire by now.
Democrats still mouth populist slogans, but they're owned by plutocrats, and get about half their financing from wealthy Jews who have a pro-Israel agenda.
Where are the 'red diaper baby' radical Jews of yore, who used to hack away at the foundations of the oligarchy? Gone to neocons, every one. When will they ever learn …