In Indian culture, the embodiment of the shapeshifter is the reptile. In American political culture, from Reagan to Obama, the avatar is of course

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the neocons, now repositioning themselves in the militant center, for Obama. Important, smart piece by Bruce YoungSmith at TNR on Bill Kristol's Foreign Policy Initiative, reported earlier by Jim Lobe and Daniel Luban. Jane Harman, good liberal Dem, is aboard. What do these folks really care about? And as Dylan said, why then don't you show it? Don't you understand what mistrust and resentment a hidden agenda breeds even in people who can't read Strauss?

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  1. Joachim Martillo says:
    April 2, 2009 at 11:37 am

    It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the lack of interest of the Obama administration in prosecuting Bush administration criminality results from the unwillingness of covert Jewish Zionist conspirators in the Democratic Party to jail their fellow covert Jewish Zionist conspirators operating out of the Republican Party.

    In fact, the goal appears to be to facilitate the transformation of crypto-Republicans into crypto-Democrats so that as much of the Jewish Zionist conspiracy as possible can move to the the Democratic Party. See Freeman, American Naiveté, Israel Lobby.

  2. tommy says:
    April 2, 2009 at 11:44 am

    When President W. Bush would have his daily Iraqi or Afghan child brought to him in the basement of the White House, he would transform into a reptile-like creature before devouring them.

  3. Rowan says:
    April 2, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    aha, the Ickeys are amongst us.

  4. Craig says:
    April 2, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Well, the neocons are certainly snakes in the grass.

  5. Rowan says:
    April 2, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    For those not familiar with David Icke, his view is that our problems are caused by shape-shifting reptilian aliens from the fifth dimension. There is of course a sizable contingent which claims that this is just fiendishly subtle code for 'Jews'.

  6. tommy says:
    April 2, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    Shape-shifting reptilian creatures are used to describe blue bloods.

    W. Bush's tongue becomes forked whenever he is around children.

  7. Rowan says:
    April 2, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    According to the unfortunate Fritz Springmeier (unfortunate because the cops either blew his head off or locked him up for a couple of decades, I can't remember which), the 'blue bloods' actually are descended from space critturs. See his "Bloodlines of the Illuminati" for the details.

  8. littlehorn says:
    April 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Well, everyone's been speaking his mind. If I may say what I feel, I never thought Obama was so different from neocons to begin with. So it's not so much neocons being slicky, as neocons adjusting to the reality of an accomodationist president who buys and sells Neocon propaganda, just like Bush.

  9. littlehorn says:
    April 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Also, you should warn the readers that the TNR link is for subscribers only. You have to have a subscription. In today's era, this is really pissing me off.

  10. Citizen says:
    April 2, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    I think littlehorn is on the money. Remember that Shrub originally campaigning said he was against nation building, and against old leaders sending our young soldiers to war at the drop of a hat, and
    his VP said the same thing.

    They totally switched their POV once in orifice. Why? Was the fudge channel that thrilling?

  11. Suzanne says:
    April 2, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the lack of interest of the Obama administration in prosecuting Bush administration criminality results from the unwillingness of covert Jewish Zionist conspirators in the Democratic Party to jail their fellow covert Jewish Zionist conspirators operating out of the Republican Party."

    You people are pitiful. This administration's priority is to get us out of a financial mess–and you can't stop your Jewish conspiracy obsession long enough to understand that???

    Losers.

    Sounds like the gloating high you folks were on a few weeks ago about the end of "Jewish Dominion" has turned into a nasty hangover.

    I heard cyanide and a whiskey alexander does wonders for that kind of pain. :-)

  12. Rowan says:
    April 2, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    This administration's priority is to get us out of a financial mess. Posted by: Suzanne | April 02, 2009 at 07:21 PM

    Not even you, Suzanne, can be pig-ignorant enough to actually believe that. Surely… ((well, maybe)

  13. Saleema says:
    April 3, 2009 at 2:26 am

    In Islamic dream interpretation, if one sees a snake in his dream it represents a vicious enemy.

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