Obama has named James Steinberg and Jacob Lew as deputy secretaries of state under Clinton. I suppose I will have to wait for the Israeli press to tell me whether both men are Jewish. Steinberg helped write Obama's speech to AIPAC last June. The pander speech. I get the feeling that Lew is Jewish. A Clintonite, he gave money to Eliot Engel and Judy Feder, and tons to Hillary Clinton, as late as August, another $2300 to help with her debt. Loyal guy, obviously. Nothing to Barack. And of course he went to Harvard. So did Steinberg.
That's what I'm more concerned about. Where are the movement people? Where are the progressives who supported Obama because they wanted change? Sounds like Steinberg was for the Iraq war, a liberal internationalist. I imagine Lew was too. Supporting Engel and Hillary. Are all these reasonable people required to balance Obama? Balance him away from what? Occidental College? The Pacific Ocean openmindedness? His mama in Indonesia and Hawaii going out with men of color? That's why I voted for him.
Wake the fuck up Phil!!!!!!
Anyway you slice it Obama has TOTALLY SCREWED you and your "progressive" buddies.
Breaks my heart too!
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"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
Haha! Obama might as well be the first Jewish President of America. No wonder Phil is so disappointed. Here's an idea for you. The Jewish Republican Coalition's statements that Obama was a secret Muslim was a "false flag" attack. They rooted for him all along.
So far I'm happy with Obama. I like Rahm Emanuel and Bill Richardson. With Clinton, you already have an African American, Jew, Latino, and a woman in the cabinet. I guess they doesn't fit Phil's idea of an ideal citizen – white Protestant males, aka assimilated.
If the far the left and the far right hate you, you know you are doing something right.
@MW: "I like Rahm Emanuel and Bill Richardson. With Clinton, you already have an African American, Jew, Latino, and a woman in the cabinet."
The Soviet Communists also used token diversity as window dressing for their treachery, as do the Zionists. It's all a ruse. All anybody needs to know about any of the above is that they are ALL Zionists (which, by the way, is the real "far right" enterprise in this country, whether their useful idiots realize it or not). All these Establishment shills are a joke, and just making fools of themselves by posing as "progressive" humanitarians. They're all on the wrong side of history, but just don't know it yet. The Obama moment has already come and gone, and the guy hasn't even taken office yet. Sad. Pathetic, really.
Here's Steinberg's POV on preemptive war–from 3 years ago; I doubt it's changed, and I take it as indicative of the recently initiated
move to lay down a 3-month diplomatic fig leaf surge as precondition to bomb Iraq–molding public opinion towards that agreed end:
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec/04/opinion/op-preemptivewar4
Side bonus: The ensuing war's impact sure would revamp the nearly dead
auto industry, taking a page from FDR.
Good grief.
Scary article by Steinberg. What's that old saw about "not a dime's worth of difference"?
Steinberg in critizing the Sec of State over a flap about Israel's capital in 1998 declared that Jerusalem should be the 'undivided' capital of Israel.
The jews have always complained about the State Dept being stacked against Israel…now Obama has stacked it with Jews…mission accomplished.
Look for the US to get dragged deeper and deeper into the Israeli suicide pit.
On the bright side…after 4 more years of Isr'merica and the Two Faced governing theory of Obama both the US and Israel will be finished.
@Ed, you are dismissing the "Obama movement" before it even got into office.
And how can you dismiss these out spoken people to some higher sinister movement? They are in the some of the most powerful positions on the planet. You say these people are tokens but it seems that Biden is the token. How can these minorities be tokens when Obama is a minority himself who is close to another minority and put other minorities in some of the most powerful positions on the planet.