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2009-01-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by john frum 2009-01-04 11:17|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 OBama keeps saying that there is "one president and one voice" and he shouldn't comment on the Gaza matter is inconsistent with he his numerous comments relative to the economy and health care.

Posted by Hammerhead 2009-01-04 11:38|| 2009-01-04 11:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Flash! The number one Google, classified ads and E-bay searches by Obama:
"Time machine".

Posted by Hammerhead 2009-01-04 11:47|| 2009-01-04 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet if Obama were to take a tougher (some would say more balanced) line with Israel, for example by demanding a permanent end to its blockade of Gaza, or by opening a path to talks with Hamas...

So...Simon: what is the 'balanced' line between Hamas, who's charter calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and genocide against the Jews and Israel who is exercising its right of self-defense?

Posted by Flusomble the Wide5751 2009-01-04 11:50|| 2009-01-04 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Probably went to a bar or coffee shop, some guy knows he writes articles and went to impress simple Simon, who wants to impress that guy back by quoting him, as "Anonymous person seeking single white writer", shorthanded as "People".

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-04 12:05|| 2009-01-04 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 One of my New Years' wishes/dreams...the One turns out to be a self serving Centrist who wants only to be the first Black president for two terms; no matter whose a$$ he has to kiss.

Sarcasm is now off :-)

Posted by WolfDog 2009-01-04 12:52|| 2009-01-04 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim and progressive and African-American and union and GLBT and Hispanic and anti-war protestor audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out.

Setting high expectations can be a b**ch.

Posted by Pappy 2009-01-04 13:07|| 2009-01-04 13:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Arab and Muslim audiences... The Al-Jazeera satellite television station... Jordanian analyst...
Silly me, I thought voting was limited to US citizens and he is the US president-elect.

Posted by Darrell 2009-01-04 13:20|| 2009-01-04 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 There was a lot of expectation throughout the world that Obama would be their man in the White House. If those expectations fade before he is sworn in, a lot of stupid activity will not occur afterward.

Go, Israel, go!

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-04 13:58|| 2009-01-04 13:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Far be it from me to think or suggest that Obama is thr right guy at the right time...however...with regard to Israel...

Let us not forget tht Obama has placed a great deal of responsiblitiy on Rahm Emamuel. I don;'t recall reading anything to suggest Rahm is a self-hating Jew. In this country that means you don't make common cause with those who want to see Israel wiped off the map.

Perhaps Obama's "silence" is calculated to appease his right hand man, someone who holds no love or brief for Hamas.

I don't know. It is confusing.

We'll see soon enough.

Posted by MarkZ 2009-01-04 16:41|| 2009-01-04 16:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Get used to this imperial attitude of simply saying nothing about that which The Anointed does not wish to speak. We are lesser beings, and do not deserve (and would not be able to understand) the workings of His mind. It is best if we wait outside and cheer any announcements that may be made on our behalf.

Posted by gromky 2009-01-04 16:58|| 2009-01-04 16:58|| Front Page Top

#11 the One turns out to be a self serving Centrist who wants only to be the first Black president for two terms; no matter whose a$$ he has to kiss.

Another way to look at this is that he tries to be the best President possible for all Americans. And that's what I pray he'll do. And disappoint a lot more than foreigners in the process.

Remember, he may be the first "black" President but when he looks in the mirror he knows, no matter how many lighty Wright sermons he's listened to, that he's half black, half white, raised by a white woman who wasn't his mother and didn't owe him a rearing any more than his black granny.

I suspect his thoughts, his true thoughts that he doesn't share with anyone else, on race are as interesting as Bill Clinton's on paternity.

He wasn't my choice and I doubt I'll like much of what he does, but in a certain way, though I doubt it will happen, I hope he does well enough to be re-elected by the whole nation. We're going to need a President that good for the next four years, and I hope he's the only one we get. Because the alternative's Biden and he's surely an idiot.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-04 16:59|| 2009-01-04 16:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Well said, Nimble Spemble. At minimum, that he does the things necessary to get reelected, one of which is not abandoning Israel, as well more than half of the voters would be very upset by that.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-04 17:12|| 2009-01-04 17:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Sometimes saying nothing is better than saying something stupid.

Posted by Grolush Darling of the Hatfields3195 2009-01-04 17:27|| 2009-01-04 17:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Rahm Emanuel was chosen for his ability to help keep Congress in line and because he supports Obama's real priorities: completely revamping our economic system to the left.

That he is Jewish is irrelevant to Obama's choice of him, so far as I can tell.

Posted by lotp 2009-01-04 17:50|| 2009-01-04 17:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Agreed, lotp. Although I got a cluster of overexcited emails when the appointment was announced, from various Jewish Democrat friends, all saying, "See -- he isn't an antisemitic Muslim after all, contrary to what those right wing nuts have been saying!!!!!" Only one properly appreciated my response referencing Secretary of State Kissinger and the 1973 war.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-01-04 18:22|| 2009-01-04 18:22|| Front Page Top

#16 uh , he's not in power yet.... why ope your mouth when its not your turn, sign of a true professional

Posted by reality cheque 2009-01-04 22:13|| 2009-01-04 22:13|| Front Page Top

#17 RC - He's opened his mouth plenty on the economy and other issues when it suited his or his party's interests. He's not being so professional after all. It may be more that he has nothing profound to say.

Posted by Whavitle Lumplump9257 2009-01-04 22:20|| 2009-01-04 22:20|| Front Page Top

#18 The topic is too hot. Sign of a true professional politician.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-01-04 22:24|| 2009-01-04 22:24|| Front Page Top

#19 "It may be more that he has nothing profound to say."

That's never stopped Bambi before, WL.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-04 22:46|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-04 22:46|| Front Page Top