The Obami seem to have adopted, if not encouraged, the Palestinian predilection to see an array of Israeli actions as provocation. Building homes within its capital or protecting biblical sites are all provocative to the Palestinian sensibilities. So in rush the Obami, filled with condemnation for Israel. But frankly, practically everything — including Israel’s existence — is provocative to many Palestinians. A case in point: the restoration of the Hurva synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City (destroyed when Jews did not control the site) is now a source of outrage for the Palestinians:
Top Fatah official and holder of the Jerusalem portfolio Khatem Abd el-Kader called Palestinians on Sunday to “converge on al Aksa to save it” from what he called “Israeli attempts to destroy the mosque and replace it with the [Jewish] temple.” Khader was speaking ahead of a dedication of a renovated synagogue in the Jewish Quarter in the Old City, planned to take place Tuesday.He called Israel’s renovation of the Hurva Synagogue a “provocation” and warned Israel that it was “playing with fire.”
It is this mentality that the Obami only encourage with their bile-filled statements and constant hollering at Israel, and with it, they further the notion that Israel, unlike any other country in the world, is restricted in where its citizens may live and in what historic and religious sites it can attend to. If only the outrage were as great for Palestinian celebrations of terrorists.
That’s quite a bit of resume inflation:
“we gave job training to the jobless, helped prevent students from dropping out of school, and taught people to stand up to their government when it wasn’t standing up for them.”
And on the seventh day, he rested.
So far as I’ve seen reported, he helped to get the state to open an employment office on the South Side.
Well, a petty massive majority of Americans have the feeling that when our countrymen are ‘behind the eight ball’ because of institutional problems (with schools, levees, droughts, financial-institutional meltdown) that the gov’t ought to do something helpful. A recent Pres said it neatly: “When Americans are hurtin’, the Gov’t has to do something.” That was the noted liberal George W……oh never mind.
Oh, and this: “pitch perfect prepared hodgepodge of promises”–wonderful!!! Mr Greenwald, meet Mr Agnew!!!!
The right wing is really really pitiful.
ooops!!! petty = pretty, of course. My bad. The inner English teacher gave me a big red mark just now.
#2 You forgot the parts about Bush/Cheney causing dinosaur extinctions, global warming, earthquakes, mid-east wars, Katrina, and oh, never mind.
Steven from Indiana
What Senator Obama lacks are the proper ethnic credentials to panderl to “Latin American citizens.” The truth is, an overwhelming majority of Latins dislike Blacks in general, and Obama in particular. Even Black Latins tend to dislike American Blacks. They do not like to be told they need handouts. Obama’s inexperience and poor judgement blin him to thee obvious facts.
Forbes is right. The Anointed One exagerrated shamelessly about his community organizing accomplishments. He never helped someone who wasn’t Black or well connected. He was a crooked racist then, and he’s a crooked racist now. G-d damn Amerikkka! Amen, brother.
Abe, you deserve an award for this spectacular paragraph:
If Bill Clinton felt your pain, Barack Obama runs a full service agony emporium. First he helps you identify the ache, then he feels it, then he lets you trade notes with other sufferers, then he grafts your pain onto theirs before blaming the whole harrowing orgy on George W. Bush and John McCain. When the misery is about to engulf you, he offers relief in the form of his own autobiographical morality tale.
What a great word picture that leaves me laughing and in excruciating pain. Where do I go to deal with the pain from the mass pain?
#2: Oh, and this: “pitch perfect prepared hodgepodge of promises”–wonderful!!! Mr Greenwald, meet Mr Agnew!!!!
It would be more fitting to say: “Mr Greenwald, meet Mr Safire!!!!”
Agnew’s speeches were alliterative and metrical masterpieces.
Safire and Buchanan are deservedly proud of them.
The quote, however, is imprecise: the word “populist” is missing.
I REALLY like the “full service agony emporium.” I may have to join SallyVee in repairing to Obama for some relief, from the agony of laughing too hard.
I’m guessing here — just guessing — that I would be understood to not feel anyone’s pain (and probably to be in denial about my own) if I observed that the US failure to deal with illegal immigration serves to prop up sclerotic, dysfunctional, paternalist socialism in much of Latin America.