“Its my hunch higher oil prices won’t negatively impact Obama’s chances for a second term.”
Perhaps you don’t live in fly-over country. My impression is that every time a guy in a pick up truck drives by a gas station and sees the price is over four bucks, he interprets the sign as a subliminal message to vote for anyone but Obama.
“I’m tired of hearing the world ‘Israel’ during campaigns for the US presidency.”
I sometimes think the only thing some of these congressional representatives (and Republican presidential candidates) are truly passionate about is Israel. I know some of this (a lot even of this) has to do with money but what’s the rest of it about? Fear that they will be smeared? That Jewish support will go to their opponents in the next election? Do they really love their jobs so much they will happily abase and humiliate themselves just to keep their seats?
Don’t they care about the rest of America? Don’t they realize there are unemployed blue collar Americans all over this country watching their declarations of undying love for Israel and asking themselves, “what in the hell is this?”
“When you got Michelle Bachmann calling herself Jewish because the Hebrew Bible is the Christian Old Testament, when Joe Biden calls himself a Zionist, and when Sarah Palin wears a Star of David pendant, it raises questions.”
I does for me too. When push comes to shove, whose side are these guys on anyway? Do they really believe Israeli and American interests are exactly the same? If not, why are they on the Israeli side?
I really hate it when American citizens take the side of hostile foreign leaders over that of the US president.
This is such an insane situation. The major Republican candidates all want to bomb Iran right now. Obama also wants to bomb too, but after the election, so the rising cost of gasoline doesn’t doom his reelection.
Hello? There are millions of Americans out of work in rust-belt states like Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Of course they cling to their guns and religion. They’ve been jobless so long that’s all they’ve got left.
I don’t know what Obama thought, but I was deeply offended by Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech in which he suggested that the United States owes Israel big time because we didn’t bomb Auschwitz during WWII. That Netanyahu would say something so insulting in our own country suggests to me that not only is the man ungrateful for our sacrifice in WWII, he’s deeply manipulative too.
If Israel bombs Iran, that country’s leaders might easily conclude that the United States gave its blessing to such an attack. Under those circumstances, Iran could attack our forces in the area, which then would require Obama to order a retaliatory strike.
Obama could avoid this by pulling American troops out of the area and ships out of the Persian Gulf. As our own war games have shown, our ships won’t easily survive massed attacks by Iran speedboats and cruise missiles in such a confined waterway. If we suffer any losses, we’ll pulled into a war against our will. And Netanyahu will get what he’s wanted all along–the US fighting Iran for him.
Right now the biggest threat to America isn’t Iran. It’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
Well I certainly hope Obama treats Netanyahu shabbily. Eisenhower would have beat Bibi with a whip for the things he says about America.
“He’s like a fat demented, vicious rat in control atop a red, white & blue attack elephant looking for peanuts. ”
I don’t think he’s that fat.
But it’s perfectly fine, Izik, if Israel has nuclear ICBMs aimed at Iran?
What us the Catholic church doing today that you find so reprehensible? Yes, we know they oppose abortion but so do many non-Catholics. That doesn’t make them evil though.
It seems to me (a non-believer) that a lot of what the church stands for today is quite commendable (though I personally disagree with their views on contraception, as do, I think, most Catholics).