Comments on: ‘Everything we’ve seen so far will seem child’s play’ –leading Israeli newspaper http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/everything-weve-seen-so-far-will-seem-childs-play-leading-israeli-newspaper.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 28 May 2012 03:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: Vera Beaudin Saeedpour http://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/everything-weve-seen-so-far-will-seem-childs-play-leading-israeli-newspaper.html/comment-page-1#comment-39048 Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/01/13/everything-weve-seen-so-far-will-seem-childs-play-leading-israeli-newspaper.html#comment-39048 <p>Need you ask where is Hillary and where is Obama? Did you hear Hillary testifying today on Hamas? Speaking for Obama, she declared: No dialogue with Hamas--until they renounce violence, recognize Israel's right to exist and abide by former agreements. I shall go to my grave wondering how so many Arabs, Asians and Europeans were fooled by Obama and nursed him into the White House. Lincoln was right. You can fool some of the people all of the time. But not Spengler, who wrote in Asia Times yesterday: <br /> <br /> "How the president-elect will deal with the disaster he inherits from the Bush administration is beyond the capacity of any second person to guess. Obama, I argued before the election, acted like an African anthropologist profiling the quaint and curious tribe of Americans. (Please see Obama's women reveal his secret, February 26, 2008.) He read Americans so well and played so cannily on their hopes and dreams as to persuade a large number of mutually incompatible constituencies that he shared their concerns. </p> <p>"All manipulation and no character was my verdict on Obama, but that might not be the worst outcome. Like Goethe's Mephistopheles, he may turn out to be 'the spirit that always wants the bad, but always does the good.'"<br /> </p> Need you ask where is Hillary and where is Obama? Did you hear Hillary testifying today on Hamas? Speaking for Obama, she declared: No dialogue with Hamas–until they renounce violence, recognize Israel's right to exist and abide by former agreements. I shall go to my grave wondering how so many Arabs, Asians and Europeans were fooled by Obama and nursed him into the White House. Lincoln was right. You can fool some of the people all of the time. But not Spengler, who wrote in Asia Times yesterday:

"How the president-elect will deal with the disaster he inherits from the Bush administration is beyond the capacity of any second person to guess. Obama, I argued before the election, acted like an African anthropologist profiling the quaint and curious tribe of Americans. (Please see Obama's women reveal his secret, February 26, 2008.) He read Americans so well and played so cannily on their hopes and dreams as to persuade a large number of mutually incompatible constituencies that he shared their concerns.

"All manipulation and no character was my verdict on Obama, but that might not be the worst outcome. Like Goethe's Mephistopheles, he may turn out to be 'the spirit that always wants the bad, but always does the good.'"

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