We reported this before. But here is kabobfest actually providing a ton of the questions to Obama from the American street:
The vast majority — vast majority — of questions being submitted to Obama's Change.gov web site right now are by thinking people. They want to know what he's going to do about Israel's current slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza…
"Do you foresee a time when American foreign policy will reflect the belief that a Palestinian life counts as much as an Israeli life?"
SV, San Francisco
"Do you foresee a time when American foreign policy will reflect the belief that a Palestinian life counts as much as an Israeli life?"
SV, San Francisco
Today on Meet the Press, Katty Kay of BBC said, Look, Obama spoke out about Mumbai. And Glenn Greenwald has been doing beautiful work about the lockstepness of the liberal establishment on this question and no other. The answer my friend is blowing in the Arab emirates. Says The National:
Many analysts say the prevailing attitudes in Washington are shaped by what has come to be known as the âIsrael lobbyâ, a bloc of pro-Israel organisations and individuals.
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- J Street: Israel increasingly runs counter to American Jewish values & US national interests
- Obama Is Brilliantly Marketing Leftwing Answers to an American Majority (as Reagan Marketed the Right)
- American street, and American elite
- ‘J Street’ Begins Right Where It Should, By Attacking Neocons
- The American Establishment realizes Israel is wrong but is afraid to say so
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I want my government back. The one that conquered Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan because it was the right thing to do. My father and his seven brothers and brothers-in-law all fought in that war, my father-in-in-law, and his brother, too, in every military branch. They were the greatest generation and they saved the world from tyranny, ending the Holocaust along the way. They would be disgusted with our current leadership which recites AIPAC talking points to excuse wars of choice and aggression. "Israel has no choice but to invade and conquer and to kill. Israel is doing to Gaza what we would do to the Canadians if they fired missiles at us." These politicians who continue to follow AIPAC will all be thrown from office. I hope they are also indicted for treason, for taking money from a foreign power to corrupt our political process.
The Jew in the Escalade hurled his mocking insult at the sign-waving keffiya-clad Palestinian protestor: "Get a life, asshole".
The protestor replied: "And you wondered what the world said in 1940, when it was YOU people behind barbwire, starved, isolated, demonized, and forgotten by humanity."
The longer Obama stays silent, the bigger the non-sign he is wearing gets — you know, the one that says: "The Democratic Party is bought and paid for by Jewish Zionists. I just work here."
Politicians are just a specialised type of performing artists. They don't write their own scripts. I already said that once.
During his first week in office, Bill Clinton famously announced his 'don't ask-don't tell' policy for gays in the military, which satisfied neither side in the controversy. This surprising manifestation of tone deafness was an early indication that Clinton wasn't quite the political genius he had built himself up to be.
Obama is showing similar tone deafness on Gaza, and he's not even president yet. When Frank Roosevelt took over from Herbert Hoover, he contemptuously shunned the outgoing president. Unfortunately, that option isn't available to Barry Dubya, now that the Democrat and Repugnican parties have merged under the watchful shotgun of Daddy AIPAC.
What does an empty suit do when he collides with an intractable issue? PUNT!
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