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McCain

I guess John McCain won the last election?

by Philip Weiss on March 17, 2010 · 11 comments

A former member of John McCain’s braintrust, neocon RobertKagan is in the Washington Post to say that Obama’s alienating every other country, not just Israel. This is when my dual loyalty light goes on. Why aren’t these people lining up against a colonialist project? Why is the Washington Post running this stuff? What is their vision of a future of continued Palestinian statelessness and blind American support for that condition? Do these people fly on airplanes?

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my wife might be falling out of love

by Philip Weiss on January 21, 2010 · 28 comments

Over the last few months, as he pushed the Afghanistan war and let Netanyahu have his way with settlements, I’ve gotten a dubious look whenever Obama comes on the TV at dinner time. Then I look over at my wife and try and recruit her in my disfavor and she says, "I love him. I don’t care what you say, I love him."

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Yeah, and if we could only get rid of the black vote, John McCain would be president

by Philip Weiss6 May 2009

Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, (apparently born and raised in the U.S., his brother and father former mayors of Miami Beach), commenting at AIPAC on Netanyahu’s constituency: The victory in Israel, by the way–you may not know…

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Saban called himself ‘right wing crazy’ on foreign policy

by Philip Weiss20 April 2009

From The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: The New York Times described [Saban] as “perhaps the most politically connected mogul in Hollywood, throwing his weight and money around Washington and, increasingly, the world,…

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Zionist Organization of America states that George Mitchell has ‘racist’ ideas

by Philip Weiss3 February 2009

The inimitable Morton Klein, in a piece published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: “Mitchell demands that Israel not allow even “natural growth” within the Jewish communities in the West Bank. This was not part of any agreement ever signed by…

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Significance of ‘Joe the Plumber’ Middle East assignment

by Philip Weiss7 January 2009

If you’re an idiot but pro-Israel, you can get a paid platform. If you’re sharply critical of Israel, it is extremely difficult to get paid to express those views. (Name me all the anti-Zionists in media jobs.)

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Joe the Plumber going to Israel

by Philip Weiss7 January 2009

as correspondent for conservative website. Jack Ross: The question is, Is he an opportunist or a mad dispensationalist?

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My problem with Jewish elite status: Howard Fineman says that McCain served in ‘army’

by Philip Weiss5 January 2009

I need to file this datum before it leaves my gray matter for the shores of Tripoli. The other day on Hardball, they were talking about the biggest general election moments, and Howard Fineman of Newsweek said the biggest moment…

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Gaza is the exile of the neocons

by Philip Weiss5 January 2009

Andrew Sullivan has a great post on Arabs as human beings, the implicit target of which is actually Jewish ethnocentrism/neoconservatism. He is now justly angry at the McCain campaign for this ideological/religious/ethnic cargo. Again I ask: Where was the discussion…

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The late campaign fraud

by Philip Weiss31 December 2008

Last night on Hardball, Pat Buchanan said that from a foreign-policy standpoint, the presidential election was about whether the neoconservatives were right or not, in their response to 9/11, two wars and an unending war on terror. The country said…

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Neocons Glom… Hillary

by Philip Weiss20 November 2008

Jacob Heilbrunn, neocon spotter, has a fine piece in Huffington Post pointing out that the neocons, deprived of a host by McCain’s demise, are, surprise, relaunching as Hillary Clintonites. Obama? No problem. The Weekly Standard has apparently been adoring Hillary….

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Obama’s Outsider/Insider Conflict

by Philip Weiss9 November 2008

Last night I was thinking about the Obama revolution, and how it’s going to work out. All societies face revolutionary fervors; and in a democratic society we deal with them the way we just did: we bring in a total…

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Palin Balked at Meeting Donors. Who?

by Philip Weiss8 November 2008

Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews read from Newsweek’s inside account of the McCain campaign and said Sarah Palin reportedly balked at meeting big “donors,” saying she thought that this was a “corrupt” practice. The story’s not up yet on the…

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A Private President-Elect

by Philip Weiss5 November 2008

I’m feeling incredible joy tonight, I’m staggered, and have been celebrating for hours. But I also have journalistic responsibility, and I confess I was a little underwhelmed by Obama’s speech. It was too high-flown for me, too regal. At this…

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