The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, on CNN Thursday, describing the brouhaha over the late and forced inclusion of Jerusalem in the Democratic Party platform.
Anchor: What happened? That was a bit of a mess yesterday:
DWS: Here’s what happened. On Tuesday, we adopted a 100 percent strongly pro-Israel platform that I was so proud to support. I’m told that I’m the first Jewish woman to represent Florida in Congress. I bring my love of Israel to work with me every single day. I was proud of our platform already. In fact it has stronger language than even the republican platform on preventing a nuclear-armed Iran. And then President Obama essentially said, You know what, my personal view is that Jerusalem is and always will remain the capital of Israel, and that was the language we had in 2008 and he felt it should, that the platform should reflect his personal view…
Essentially with Jerusalem, it was a technical omission, and nothing more than that… President Obama when he realized that the language was not in there and it wasn’t there from the 2008 platform….
Let’s not make more of this than there is.
Thanks to Abdelnasser Rashid.
I don’t like either Israel or Florida. Despite the dominant liberal prejudices supported by the US media a lot of Africa especially Ghana is light years ahead of either Israel or Florida in almost all aspects of civilization.
DNC and RNC are vying for the best award in the profession of prostitution .The scales are based on timeliness,devotion,whether with or without any encouragement ,open or secret,with goodies ( dollar aids and grants and freebies) or not,and on singularity of attachment and admission of the uniqueness of the customer. its a tough fight and chances are both will serve the master at the end of the day as the two will be told by the master to stop their petty infighting and get on the job together.
undoubtedly members of the german-american bund said they brought their love of nazi germany to work every day.
Wasserman/Schultz David Frum want the U.S. to defy international law and UN decisions about boundaries in the creation of Israel. Over and over we see how Israel and the I lobby trump one administration after another’s need to support international laws and UN resolutions. What an argument between Frum and Wasserman Schutz..who loves Israel more who loves Israel more. What does this have to do with a Presidential election.$$$$$$$$
Soledad handed Wasserman Schultz her ass on a platter. Wasserman Schultz just flat out lied in our faces “small amount of objection” my ass. W/S take those blinders off and put some hearing aides in or just try to tell the truth. As Soledad said this language was clearly taken out and then came the “backlash” and Obama was forced once again to genuflect to Israel.
And Wasserman Schultz ok to love Israel but bringing that love into the U.S. congress and creating and manipulating U.S. congressional legislation that undermines U.S. national security by supporting Israel no matter what they do is not acceptable.
Good going Soledad.
Thanks for posting the Jon Stewart piece on this. Kept wondering where that 2/3rd’s figure came from. Who whispered it in the chairs ear. But up on the screen. Wondering when that was put up or was it a quick decision in the back room. The chair looked relieved but he knew it was bullshit. Would be so great to find out who put that 2/3rds up there on that screen and when