In my unending lovefest for Obama, I missed this beautifully-righteous letter to Obama from Ralph Nader, on the eve of the election, saying Obama is in the pocket of Israel-lobby hardliners when it comes to prospects for a two-state solution. As a cockeyed optimist (my wife calls me this), I continue to believe Obama is subtle enough to triangulate the lobby, but it's important to note that Nader assigns this issue top billing:
even the mildest version of this trait than your surrendering to
demands of the hard-liners to prohibit former president Jimmy Carter
from speaking at the Democratic National Convention. This is a
tradition for former presidents and one accorded in prime time to Bill
Clinton this year.
Here was a President who negotiated peace
between Israel and Egypt, but his recent book pressing the dominant
Israeli superpower to avoid Apartheid of the Palestinians and make
peace was all that it took to sideline him. Instead of an important
address to the nation by Jimmy Carter on this critical international
problem, he was relegated to a stroll across the stage to "tumultuous
applause," following a showing of a film about the Carter Center’s
post-Katrina work. Shame on you, Barack Obama!
It is truly unfortunate that most supporters
of the Obamessiah are true believers who, despite all evidence to the contrary, persist in imagining that he has not been
corrupted by Zionist money and Israel-firsters.
This letter was presented here already.
Nader is overly and unnecessarily critical of Obama. His career as critic in chief is over.
It is truly unfortunate that most supporters
of the Obamessiah are true believers who, despite all evidence to the contrary, persist in imagining that he has not been
corrupted by Zionist money and Israel-firsters.
Then there's Richard Witty, who applauds all this, and hails it as a mystical unconditional love affair between Barack Obama and America's super best friend forever, Apartheid Israel.
(Although, and lucky for Barack, the father of his award-winning dreams was born an upper-class Kenyan, admittedly far from any South African township.)
Don't blame Obama; Dershowitz made him do it!
On C-SPAN this morning, during Washington Journal, a caller
brought up this issue to the guest, someone from Politco.com.
The guest, a square-headed man, white as kosher Christian milk, feigned total ignorance of the issue. He acted as if he never knew
of how Carter was prevented to speak at the DNC. This is SOP.
The C-SPAN host did not follow up. Everytime the host does, there is
a flurry of calls on such issue. None of those call favor the "special relationship" Uncle Sam has with neighbor Mocky.
Alan Dershowitz should be given all the credit he deserves and appears to want to boast about for this piece of handiwork.