Screw him if he doesn't come out real soon against these machinations.

Does Andrew believe there is an Israel Lobby that is incredibly powerful and is often able to steer U.S. foreign policy in directions it otherwise would not go, all in the interest of Israel?

Libertarians/Green Party/Whatever–county on my vote for next term! Unlike Obama you can count on me to keep my word and there will sure be a voting change in my pattern.

Hey, at least you recognized your mistake. So don't be too harsh with yourself. Please transform your mistake (which certainly not only you made, Obama fooled a lot of people) into productive energy and educate others who still think he's soooo nice and soooo peaceloving and soooo not allowing lobbyists to set the agendas.

Screw him if he doesn't come out real soon against these machinations.

Obama may turn out to be the greatest con ever played on a populace.

Already, in a short couple of months, he has essentially abandoned the antiwar voters who supported him (they should have expected as much), he has moved away from organized labor which supported him, his health care plan is a sham designed to appeal to those who support a universal, single-payer plan, but in fact is being written by insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists and will reflect their interests, not the general population's.

He has placed pro-industry people in positions to affect future internet regulations (which may ultimately end up affecting Mondoweiss and its users).

He is completely under the spell of finance and its oligarchs, continuing the policy begun under Bush of a massive transfer of taxpayer income to the financial elite.

And that's just a small sample.

He has done all this while preaching almost exactly the opposite, and the majority of the American public, more concerned with who is going to win the next American Idol than anything more substantive, is happily going along for the ride, absolutely convinced that the first African American president can only have their best interests at heart.

It's been a long time since Barack spoke eloquently about the Palestinians, back in his Chicago days.

I wonder if he remembers?

Ah ha ha ha … well that's the second best thing to getting one's own obituary published in the Times, ain't it — that is, having one's elite social standing confirmed for posterity, after it don't do you no earthly good. Don't you know that Times-worshipping is idolatry, of the Second Commandment variety? Moses said cut that crap.

The problem with the Lincoln/slavery analogy is that there ISN'T an anti-zionist party in the United States. No serious opposition party exists. In the unlikely event that one materializes in our blighted lifetimes, it certainly isn't going to be validated in the lagging-indicator Times. Or in lagging-indicator Washington DC.

More likely the Lincoln-era bust-up scenario will be repeated, though with more successful (from the standpoint of peace, freedom and liberty) results this time. Lincoln's all-powerful central government, hijacked by foreign proxies, has become unfixable. The hideous monster has its own momentum, sustained by unlimited counterfeit currency (created and signed by two Jewish guys, Bernanke and Geithner). And it's gonna be one son-of-a-bitch to get rid of. As a barnacle (hemorrhoid, if you will) on Usgov's huge rusty hull, the Times ian't going bite the hand the feeds, especially when it needs a generous bailout from the aforementioned functionaries to survive.

Let us hope this Freeman episode invigorates opposition to America's established Israeli policies, and that the president receives a lot of grief for supporting them. Whatever the president says from now on, Freeman should be the response.

I certainly wasn't getting ready to hate Obama if he let this questionable character fill the position.

Just disagree and move on. And Grow Up!