Jack Ross writes, re Marty Peretz and Obama:
I think you're way off, if in fact that's your implication, that Peretz is going to be in the same camp as Jeffrey Goldberg or even Olmert. He, like many Jewish "liberals", is desperately bobbing and weaving since McCain's ship is clearly going down and want to delude themselves that they can handle Obama from the inside.
I repeat, to those who think it dubious, the very fact that Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross had to form that ridiculous front group indicates that they see the writing on the wall, that they are only being used by the Obama campaign to ameliorate certain constituencies the same way Brent Scowcroft and Colin Powell were used by Bush in 2000.
I'll grant that this election cycle has shown just how much Peretz has invested in his shell game of the last 40 years, and that he'll go completely mad before giving it up, in fact I suspect he's been at it so long he can't give it up if he wanted to.
A couple of issues ago he went on a rant about of all things on earth the Rosenberg case, and was revealing in his desperation in the number of times he belabored the point that the followers of My Darling Party Line were today comparable not to the Zionists but to the anti-Zionists. And his bizarre suggestions about Jackson and about math and science education in the black community are evidence of further derangement.
Let me also take this opportunity to tell you not to despair about this Jackson flap. Its yet another of those things that none but us who care about this stuff know a thing about, and don't doubt that both father and son are a major influence on Obama – the son, of course, is pretty much a shoe-in to succeed Obama in the Senate.
