If I were the McCain campaign, I’d be rushing Ron Silver (or similar) on a plane to Miami right now to talk to his Jewish mishpocheh (extended family) in Florida about one of the strangest actions yet in this bizarre political season. Hillary Clinton has pulled out of a demonstration (by Jewish organizations) at the UN against Ahmadinejad because Sarah Palin will be attending! (I rarely use exclams, but this one seemed worth it.) Philippe Reines – the poor soul charged with explaining this retreat – said the following: “Clearly there was some miscommunication because this was never billed to us as a partisan political event. Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending this event.” (Talk about projection!)
The first thing that came into my mind is that Hillary was trying to sabotage Obama. Assuming no further major market meltdowns, some attention next week will be focussed on the arrival of the Iranian madman (recently blessed for reelection by his godfather Don Khamenei) who is once again denying the Holocaust, predicting the disappearance of Israel and flouting the IAEA. According to this report, even the Russians and Javier Solana are disturbed (pretending anyway).
But then I remembered The Suha (Arafat) Kiss. Hillary’s respect for Israel and committment to its survival may only be, pardon the expression, skin deep. As with so many politicians, it’s the self, the self, the self. In the face of any possible damage to her image, she thinks first of moi and second of the world. No wonder the presence of Palin appalls her. Can you imagine Sarah the Barracuda bussing Suha Arafat?
UPDATE: As is pretty well known by now, the Jewish organizations protesting Ahmadinejad have rescinded their invitation to Palin. There is a Yiddish word for this – schande.
PJM Home
Pajamas Media appreciates your comments that abide by the following guidelines:
1. Avoid profanities or foul language unless it is contained in a necessary quote or is relevant to the comment.
2. Stay on topic.
3. Disagree, but avoid ad hominem attacks.
4. Threats are treated seriously and reported to law enforcement.
5. Spam and advertising are not permitted in the comments area.
The clause regarding "hate speech" has been deleted because readers criticized it as being too loosely defined. We agreed.
These guidelines are very general and cannot cover every possible situation. Please don't assume that Pajamas Media management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment. We reserve the right to filter or delete comments or to deny posting privileges entirely at our discretion. If you feel your comment was filtered inappropriately, please email us at story@pajamasmedia.com.
83 Comments
1. srlucado:“Can you imagine Sarah the Barracuda bussing Suha Arafat?”
Yeah…giving Suha a smackeroo with a frozen 80-pound halibut.
In the end, all these Democrats come down to the same thing – power-mad politicians, with no sense of right and wrong, only vote-getting and non-vote-getting.
If the shoe were on the other foot, would Palin have cancelled an appearance knowing Hillary would be there? Unlikely.
That’s the difference between decency and cynicism, and that’s why I support McCain/Palin. I don’t agree with everything they espouse, but they’re decent people, the kind who make me proud to be American. Those other two guys should be ashamed of themselves.
Scott
Sep 18, 2008 - 8:16 am 2. Insufficiently Sensitive:Hillary was never of high political caliber. Were it not for Bill Clinton’s coattails (we’ll keep it clean here), she would never have developed the notoriety that got her into the Senate on her name alone – certainly her accomplishments didn’t carry much weight.
And now we see real evidence of Hillary’s failure to advance socially from the junior-high school clique mentality. One of those horrible Others is coming to the party? I’m outa here.
As far as she’s concerned, the dangers of Ahmadinajad to the USA are dwarfed by the threat of proximity to a popular Alaska governor.
Sep 18, 2008 - 9:23 am 3. Peter G:“Clearly there was some miscommunication because this was never billed to us as a partisan political event. Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending this event.”
Uh, wouldn’t having politicians from both parties there be the defintion of non-partisan?
Sep 18, 2008 - 9:39 am 4. LSD:The ’self’ was also revealed when Obama recently entered a theater of current US military action and suggested that foreign leadership not cooperate with the commander in chief. The reason it did not go as bad as it might have is due only to the fact that the Iraqi’s are not quite as interested in American politics as Obama thought they should be.
These are the people who say they will repair America’s image abroad…
Sep 18, 2008 - 9:50 am 5. Neocon Hippie:I believe you mean flouting, not flaunting, the IAEA.
Sep 18, 2008 - 9:54 am 6. Steve-o:I don’t care for Hillary’s politics, but I see her problem here. If she goes, Palin wins the most benefits from the coverage and photo ops. Also, Hillary’s attendance allowing said benefits could be taken as a subtle undermining of Obama. Hillary had a lose-lose situation. I would have attended, made bipartisan remarks and put the best face on it possible, but I don’t have any advisors and handlers.
Sep 18, 2008 - 10:48 am 7. ic:Hillary does not want to fight Obama’s war. To protect her own future in politics, she needs to support Obama against Palin. But she loves Palin’s taking Obama down a couple of notches, a feat that Hillary failed to do in the primaries. I don’t think she wants to criticize Palin who, since her nomination, has nothing but praises for Hillary.
Sep 18, 2008 - 10:49 am 8. Zane:You can judge a man (or woman) by who he/she stands by. Tell your kids to hang out with the good kids. Hill . . . you made a choice not to stand with people I hold dear. Instead you hang with the crew in your own neighborhood.
Sep 18, 2008 - 10:51 am 9. Fred:Sorry Steve-o,
It’s lose – lose only if it’s all about Hillary. At some point, politicians are expected to act in the national interest.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:00 am 10. jblog:Well, they already appeared on SNL together, so what’s the big deal?
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:04 am 11. mrkwong:The ONLY really good scenario for Hillary is that McCain gets elected and proves incompetent, and that the odor of his administration taints Palin’s run for President in 2012. If McCain wins and does okay Palin’s the obvious front-runner next time but at least the Dem playing field is back to even.
If Obama gets in, he’d have to be worse than Carter not to get the nomination in 2012, and an Obama presidency that bad would pretty much trash the Dem brand anyway. Absent a complete Obama fail the best she can hope for would be to replace Biden as the VP nominee in 2012, which means she’s lookin’ a whole lot like McCain by the time she gets her own shot again.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:08 am 12. Joel Rosenberg:Tone deaf, at better than best. The smart thing to do would be to do her best to see that her new BFF, Barack Obama, was in attendance with her, preferably along with Biden — and then ask why McCain couldn’t make it.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:08 am 13. Falshrmjgr:Ron Silver (or similar) ????
Why does it need to be a Jew? That’s exactly the sort of crap that America needs to stop. What we DO need to do is get someone down there with common-sense (and I think Ron has plenty of that, but I digress). Go and talk to people GOOD. But sending a Jew because he is a Jew is no better that folks who vote for or against Obama just because he is black.
Don’t vote McCain because Obama is black. Vote McCain because Obama is WRONG.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:15 am 14. Mike K:I don’t think Obama’s Palestinian handlers would want him attending that rally.
If Obama is elected, his presidency WILL be worse than Carter’s.
We are entering a bear market today. We don’t need Obama’s New Deal retread policies.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:18 am 15. Mister Snitch!:“Hillary was never of high political caliber.”
Very true, and not brought up nearly enough. She never would have reached her previous heights if not for her husband.
More uncommon knowledge, re the idea of ’skin deep’: While beauty in many cases is only ’skin deep’, ugly often goes right down to the bone.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:20 am 16. ronnor:And this was on the heels of one of her major supporters and contributors firing Obama; Donald Trump is now for McCain. What is going on here?
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:25 am 17. megapotamus:Um, wouldn’t having prominent members of BOTH parties there make it at least bi-partisan, if not non-partisan? Pathetic and hilarious. McCain is actually UP among Jews in NY. Could it be that Jews are FINALLY waking up to who their friends are? And finally Olmert is out without, utterly, destroying Zion. It is a season of miracles.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:26 am 18. edh:“Clearly there was some miscommunication because this was never billed to us as a partisan political event. Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending this event.”
Huh? Wouldn’t the appearance of both women make the event non-partisan or at least bi-partisan?
Lame.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:28 am 19. GayPatriot » Jennifer Rubin: A Second Athena?:[...] Roger Simon explains why Hillary could never be an Athena: Hillary’s respect for Israel and committment to its survival may only be, pardon the expression, [...]
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:30 am 20. Jenzo:You KNOW Hillary is laughing her butt off right now. She’s doing the bare minimum to boost Obama – just enough to stay in good graces with the party for her run in 2012.
She probably didn’t want to show because she wouldn’t be able to stop herself from gleefully confabbing with Palin about how screwed Obama is at the moment. I’m sure despite all appearances, Hillary is thrilled that Palin has knocked Obama off her feet.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:40 am 21. Lem:Roger, there may be less politics than meets the eye here.
I will probably sound sexist, but if Hillary commisioned a poll of her monalisa against Palins to Eskimos in Alaska… ok, bad example… tooo Ulaanbaataries In Mongolia, we all know who come out on top. Hillary knows how it would come out.
A first closeup of the two of them together?
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:42 am 22. Skippy-Georgia:Not to make excuses, but … even if she wanted to, she can’t get Obama’s blessing to show up at this because it would only call attention to his foolish “I’ll Meet with Iran Without Precondition” promise. She can’t show up without having asked Obama because then it really would be undercutting his campaign and she needs to keep up the appearances of being team player, whether true or not. So, she’ll take the expedient way out and watch it all on TV.
If Obama had any spine at all, he would dispatch Biden, he of the “foreign policy gravitas,” to this event and force the organizers to make it “bipartisan.” He won’t because it’ll be an obvious flip-flop and go down as yet another unforced error.
Roger Simon is right that the McCain campaign should try to make some hay out of this in Florida. Sadly, though, I doubt it will help. I’m convinced, that 75% of American Jews – even knowing what they know today – would still vote for Jimmy Carter if they had the chance.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:51 am 23. tb:Sarah Pallin wouldn’t even know how to find Iran on a map to save her life!
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:54 am 24. duane:The one thing about an Obama presidency is the media influence. Bush has done some boneheaded things, but, The situation in the US has not been nearly as bad as the MSM has portrayed it.
I suspect that the MSM would change their job from carrying the Obamesiah across the finish line in November, to whitewashing his presidency so that the situation wouldn’t be nearly as good as MSM portrayed it.
Sep 18, 2008 - 11:58 am 25. Robin Goodfellow:So Clinton, a sitting Senator, attending the demonstration = not a partisan political event.
But Palin, a sitting Governor, attending the demonstration = a partisan political event?
There is some fascinating logic at play here.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:08 pm 26. Godzilla:I think Hillary was told to not attend. From what I understand, Obama’s people won’t be there either. Makes sense when Obama’s “unconditional talks with Iran” is taken into account. The “partisan event” canard is a smokescreen. This is a very pro-Iran stance taken by Obama and now even Clinton.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:16 pm 27. Elaine:Falshrmjgr said:
Ron Silver (or similar) ????
Why does it need to be a Jew? … sending a Jew because he is a Jew is no better that folks who vote for or against Obama just because he is black
Sending a Jew is necessary because they’ll listen to a fellow Jew who can articulate why voting for Obama isn’t in their enlightened self-interest, while voting for McCain is. A Jew understands the particular interests of the Jewish people. No matter how much non-Jews think we know, there’s much we don’t…
As for Hillary, she made this a “partisan” matter the moment she decided to bail. Everyone who’s aware of this event and the intention of its organizers can see that.
Unfortunately, too many of the Obamanistas are too far gone to be swayed by trivialities like common sense or rational thought…
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:19 pm 28. bc:To do list for Hillary…
Call Donald Trump to thank him for sticking Obama in the ribs.
Call Ms. De Rothschild to thank her for kicking Obama in the shins.
Find another way to kick Obama in the balls.
Busy girl.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:22 pm 29. DBinSD:Typing a bogus internet comment claiming “Sarah Pallin” can’t find Iran on a map:
Free.
Misspelling the name of the vice presidential candidate he is accusing of being dimwitted in the same comment:
Priceless.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:26 pm 30. Dadmanly:Jblog and Lem touch on the real issue.
The absolute last thing Sen Clinton — or the Dems want to see happen — is a real life photo of Gov. Palin and Clinton in close enough proximity to mimic SNL.
Too hysterical to contemplate, all upside for Palin, all downside for Obama (and Clinton, this one time).
Wags will observe that only one of them is more attractive in person than their satirical counterpart.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:28 pm 31. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:As several have noted, were it not for having latched onto Bill, Hillary Clinton would almost certainly be:
Just another bitter late middle aged female partner in a large Chicago (or possibly New York) law firm who never married and almost certainly never had a child. All she would have to her name/legacy would be a luxury apartment/condo not too far from the office, a big pile of money and mutual fund investments, and an almost endless string of court filings and legal memoranda that are never read once they are 6 months old. Trust me, I’ve seen hundreds of these women.
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:46 pm 32. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:tb:
The only Americans who *need* to be able to find Iran on a map are the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who are targeting the weapons. Oh, and the Marines who will be leading any invasion. Other than that, who cares?
Sep 18, 2008 - 12:48 pm 33. Markus:Better talk to the Central Committee, the party line on Palin may be changing.
Phillip Giraldi at the American Conservative’s blog notes the recent anti-Palin comments by Brooks, Frum and Krauthammer and speculates that neoconservative ardor for Palin might be cooling, based on what he has been told were shaky responses by Palin during her foreign policy tutorial and quiz sessions held at the American Enterprise Institute. They also think that Biden and Dennis Ross would be pretty good for their goals.
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/category/foreign-policy/
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:01 pm 34. Godzilla:Markus,
Did she say something stupid like suggesting Iraq should be broken up into 3 parts?
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:10 pm 35. Sassenach:“Just another bitter late middle aged female partner in a large Chicago (or possibly New York) law firm who never married and almost certainly never had a child. All she would have to her name/legacy would be a luxury apartment/condo not too far from the office, a big pile of money and mutual fund investments, and an almost endless string of court filings and legal memoranda that are never read once they are 6 months old. Trust me, I’ve seen hundreds of these women.”
Trust me, I’ve seen plenty of those men, too. What, exactly, is your point?
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:15 pm 36. Godzilla:In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Sarah Palin nails Biden on that buffoonish remark of his. It’s begging to be said, and on national television.
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:16 pm 37. otpu:TB:
I would bet that any mother whose son is heading for Iraq would have no trouble at all pointing out Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, or any other little piss ant sand box you want to name on any map you can find.
otpu
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:20 pm 38. jerry:Markus:
The neo-conservatives never had any ardor for Gov Palin. Krauthammer was livid the Joe Lieberman didn’t get the job. You continue the practice of using Neo-Conservative as an slur for Jews who aren’t communists. Like Rumsfeld, Feith and Cheney, Palin is a conservative without the neo.
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:22 pm 39. Old Sourdough:Brand X blog says don’t bother, McCain leads there, but only there and Palin would offend.
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:27 pm 40. steveaz:Hi Roger,
“Hillary Clinton has pulled out of a demonstration (by Jewish organizations) at the UN against Ahmadinejad because…”
Maybe she got stiff-armed at the last moment and “couldn’t” attend.
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:30 pm 41. john b:I guess its too much to ask of our would-be leaders to just do what’s right. Stand with others or stand alone, but stand on the side of America in all you do. I’ll be beside you every step of the way no matter who you are or what party you’re in.
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:50 pm 42. Justin Case:It’s odd for Hillary to say that inviting people from both parties makes the event partisan. Au contraire. It makes it non-partisan.
Still, I think the major consideration for Hillary is that, if Obama is defeated, there cannot be any Clinton fingerprints on the body. That would really hurt her in 2012. She wants people saying, “if only he had put Hillary on the ticket,” not “if only those awful Clintons had really pitched in for Obama.”
Sep 18, 2008 - 1:56 pm 43. Markus:Godzilla,
the only way that Biden comment will look really stupid is if Iraq is still one country five years or so after the last U.S. troops leave.
The point is that when it comes to Middle East policy, and understanding America’s eternal global responsibilities, Biden has a thirty-plus year record of “getting his priorities straight” and being on the right side at the end of the day. As do most of the people who would be advising him and Obama should they win: Dennis Ross, Ken Adelman, Lawrence Kaplan, blah, blah, blah. The election is between Neocon Extra vs. Neocon Light.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:01 pm 44. Brian G.:“Sarah Pallin wouldn’t even know how to find Iran on a map to save her life!”
Perhaps you should look up the proper spelling of “Palin” before you say something that dumb, you dunce.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:08 pm 45. Mike:As an Obama supporter who finds Hillary’s behavior disgusting(I was a fan pre her Iraq vote), I can’t wait to see her lose in 2012. If anyone here thinks that Obama supporters will support her after her behavior during this election cycle, you are braindead.
Keep it up Hill, we will get you and bring you down in 2012.
Watching the Hollywood suckers lose their money on her candidacy is gonna be sweet.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:14 pm 46. BMoon:Maybe her orange pantsuit was in the cleaners and she couldn’t get it out in time for the event.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:18 pm 47. Roger L Simon:‘Maybe her orange pantsuit was in the cleaners and she couldn’t get it out in time for the event.’
Wins RogerLSimon.com best comment prize.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:20 pm 48. 888:And this, in the face of so many Jews upstate, in Florida and in Californy supporting Hillary. How sad that, in the end, she only thought of self…but, hey, that’s just like Obama…they’re 2 peas in a pod.
Another reason, of course, is Palin will get all the attention, and Hillary will look extremely worn-out next to the Girl Wonder.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:24 pm 49. davod:“The point is that when it comes to Middle East policy, and understanding America’s eternal global responsibilities, Biden has a thirty-plus year record of “getting his priorities straight” and being on the right side at the end of the day.”
Wrong again. Biden has been on the wrong side of most foreign policy decisions for the past 30 years.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:27 pm 50. Eric R.:With all due (great) respect for Mr. Silver, the man for McCain to send on this job is Joe Lieberman.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:30 pm 51. ElvenPhoenix:Is anyone else catching the fact that in the SNL sketch “Hillary” said that she thought that she’d be the only one there? And then this thing comes up with an appearance with her & Palin…and she cancels because Palin is going to be there.
Oh, the irony…I love it!
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:35 pm 52. Norman Conquest:Anything skin deep on Hillary! must be pretty substantial. Check out the jowls, the cankles, the flaps of skin dangling from her upper arms… there’s enough loose skin there to bury several Suhas and a Huma with room left over.
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:43 pm 53. Old but Not Stupid:RE: tb:
“Sarah Pallin [sic] wouldn’t even know how to find Iran on a map to save her life!”
Sep 18, 2008 – 11:54 am
tb: I would bet millions of dollars that Sarah Palin would find Iran on a map withing three seconds, while you could not find your a$$ in the dark, using both hands, before sunrise!
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:43 pm 54. 888:Great thinking, Eric R. Bull’s eye!
Sep 18, 2008 - 2:47 pm 55. California Dreamer:“Biden has a thirty-plus year record of “getting his priorities straight” and being on the right side at the end of the day”
Name one right side.
Sep 18, 2008 - 3:08 pm 56. JL:I live in an area with a very low Jewish population. That said we have two couples who are good friends (yeah, yeah, I know the joke) who are Jewish. All are well educated and would normally be thought of as card carrying Dems.
They are all voting for McCain, as are at least half of their married children who are scattered around the country. Some in purple states …. One has a kid who is in Republican politics up to his eyeballs.
They just do not get a good read on Obama. When they listen to him, they do not hear straight answers.
A microcosm to be sure, but this election makes for interesting times.
Sep 18, 2008 - 3:22 pm 57. stace:Governor Palin has been disinvited from the event, I hear on the news.
Sep 18, 2008 - 4:17 pm 58. Barry Dauphin:Biden has a thirty-plus year record of “getting his priorities straight” and being on the right side at the end of the day
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
From a 2001 article in TNR, meet Mr. Straight Priorities.
“He gives Castro-length speeches,” says one exasperated Senate staffer.”
“In his classic study of the 1988 presidential candidates, What It Takes, Richard Ben Cramer wrote, “Joe often didn’t know what he thought until he had to say it.” In one recent committee debate, recalls an observer, Biden delivered a rambling explanation of his opposition to a foreign aid amendment, by the end of which he had seemed to talk himself out of his original position.” I guess this is what must be mean by “end of the day”
“When Congress and the Clinton administration were trying to force reforms at the United Nations last year, the United States held up nearly $1 billion in back dues payments as leverage. In a visit to the General Assembly soon afterwards, Biden suggested that America’s demands might be negotiable–a position he had not cleared with his Senate colleagues nor with a startled UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.”
“Biden himself seems to worry that people aren’t taking him seriously. In an odd verbal tic, he routinely interrupts himself to offer the assurance that he’s “not being facetious.”
“At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: “I’m groping here.” Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we’re not bent on its destruction. “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.
The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: “I think they’d send it back.” Then another aide speaks up delicately: “The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt.” Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He’s already moved on to something else.” With Joe Biden the end of the day takes a long time. Everyone will have moved on to something else
Sep 18, 2008 - 5:34 pm 59. Markus:“’Biden has a thirty-plus year record of “getting his priorities straight” and being on the right side at the end of the day’
Name one right side.”
Marty vouches for him here:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220444324673&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
And Biden himself says “go for it!”:
Sep 18, 2008 - 5:46 pm 60. Jonathan Burack:http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220444321523&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hillary backs out to give Palin the stage and thereby embarrass Obama. Obama’s thugocracy in the making then pressures the Jewish organizations to push Palin off the stage. The Jewish organizations, ready to ask us all to stand firm against Iran, crumble before the liberal Democratic juggernaut. A plausible scenario? After what the Obama team did the Stanley Kurtz, I do not think it takes an Olver Stone to see it this way.
Sep 18, 2008 - 5:46 pm 61. Mike_K:Palin has now been uninvited. This is a case study of how to alienate allies. Maybe Obama’s Palestinian advisors will show up. The rally is not worth the effort to attend now.
Sep 18, 2008 - 7:30 pm 62. CoYid:This ought to be a wake up call for Jewish voters who reflexively vote for democrats. It’s time to stop giving your votes away.
Sep 18, 2008 - 8:01 pm 63. George Clarke:Now that Palin is disinvited can’t Hill the Pill just stamp her foot a couple of times and say “Now I want to come!”
Sep 18, 2008 - 8:16 pm 64. Richard Nieporent:Just like the Feminist leadership doesn’t care what happens to women, the Jewish “leadership” doesn’t care what happens to Jews. All they are concerned about is retaining their power and their support the Democrat Party.
They decided to bar all elected and federal officials from the rally on Monday in fear of a “media feeding frenzy.”
Because the last thing you would want at a demonstration is attention from the media. The truth of the matter is that if given the choice they would rather see Israel destroyed in a nuclear holocaust than a republican elected President. There are no words to express my disgust for these fools.
Sep 18, 2008 - 8:35 pm 65. Godzilla:Biden’s original scheduled preempted the UN Protest.
Sep 18, 2008 - 8:37 pm 66. whiskey:McCain appealed to Obama to appear jointly in a show of unity against Ahmadnutjob. He explicitly asked him to put country ahead of politics.
However, Obama rebuffed him. And the Org put Dem politics ahead of country.
That’s it.
Sep 18, 2008 - 9:47 pm 67. Gary Rosen:You can pretty much discount anything “markus” has to say. He’s a proven liar and antisemitic scumbag.
Sep 18, 2008 - 10:09 pm 68. Gary Rosen:whiskey – you got it right on the money. To elaborate on “markus”, he compares Israel to Nazi Germany and then tries to weasel out of it.
Sep 18, 2008 - 10:12 pm 69. Pajamas Media » Solidarity on Standing Up To Iran? Not in the Obama Camp:[...] Hillary Clinton was invited presumably to represent the Obama team but then withdrew in a fit of pique, we are told, upon learning that Palin would be [...]
Sep 19, 2008 - 7:52 am 70. Markus:Once more, for the record, I never compared Israel -whether in its behavior to Palestinians, Arabs, or in any other respect -to Nazi Germany. Gary knows this, but he is lives to take potshots at lots of people online, including me. I compared the extreme right-wing proposal to forcibly remove Palestinians from West Bank and Gaza to the actions of Nazi Germany. Ethnic cleansing and genocide are different things, and I was wrong to compare the two. But it truly does take a liar, scumbag and weasel to claim that I compared Israel to Nazi Germany. And it takes a sociopath to repeat this slur year after year after year.
Sep 19, 2008 - 9:07 am 71. Salt Lick:I haven’t attended church regularly for 20 years, but as a white Protestant Southerner, I’ve been overjoyed by the modern affection for Jews and Israel voiced by many of the Evangelical Christians I know. Now I wonder how many of these folks will see the treatment of Palin as being asked to “please use the back door next time you come to my house, friend.”
Sep 19, 2008 - 10:38 am 72. Obama’s Unity Politics « Tai-Chi Policy:[...] Hillary, nor Biden are willing to appear with Palin on a joint Anti-Nuclear-Iran rally coinciding with [...]
Sep 19, 2008 - 1:27 pm 73. ricpic:Prunes don’t look good next to plums.
Sep 19, 2008 - 2:06 pm 74. ricpic:Salt Lick is absolutely right. This is a slap in the face by Jews to their natural allies on the right. The supposedly brightest people in the world are politically tone-deaf.
Sep 19, 2008 - 2:15 pm 75. Mister Snitch!:“Prunes don’t look good next to plums.”
DING DING DING!
Sep 19, 2008 - 9:33 pm 76. cubanbob:Must have been the Hollywood crowd that muscled the groups in to backing down. I would not be surprised if a few very wealthy progressive types (urged on by the Obama people)threaten to withhold their donations. It is a shame the organizers did not tell the to go eff themselves and keep their money and then publicly call them out. On balance, they will probably lose more of their supporters and donors than whatever gain they sought to achieve by placating those leftist self hating Jews.
Sep 20, 2008 - 12:14 am 77. tanarg:Let the focus be opposition to everything that nutcase Ahmalatefordinnah stands for and ditch the prez-related stuff, okay?
Sep 20, 2008 - 1:57 am 78. Cynic:“This is a slap in the face by Jews to their natural allies on the right.”
What, all Jews get slapped with the actions of some worried about what their “Left of Progressive Left Fascist” neighbours think?
If Hilary was truly sincere about smashing the glass ceiling she would be there anyway in the interests of Iranian woman and the treatment meted out to them by a_mad_jihadi and co., and not conform to Donkey politics.
Sep 20, 2008 - 7:57 am 79. Bill Bradley:What is the French word for this?
>UPDATE: As is pretty well known by now, the Jewish organizations protesting Ahmadinejad have rescinded their invitation to Palin. There is a Yiddish word for this – schande.
Sep 20, 2008 - 10:15 am 80. Bill Bradley:Does the “thugocracy” include Howard Berman, Henry Waxman, and Mel Levine?
The best friends of Israel ever in the United State Congress?
>Jonathan Burack:
Hillary backs out to give Palin the stage and thereby embarrass Obama. Obama’s thugocracy in the making then pressures the Jewish organizations to push Palin off the stage. The Jewish organizations, ready to ask us all to stand firm against Iran, crumble before the liberal Democratic juggernaut. A plausible scenario? After what the Obama team did the Stanley Kurtz, I do not think it takes an Olver Stone to see it this way.
Sep 20, 2008 - 10:17 am 81. Lem:Sep 18, 2008 – 5:46 pm
What is the French word for this?
Let’s have Bradley balance Pajama TV… maybe?
Sep 21, 2008 - 12:52 am 82. yochanan:hillary proved it was never about supporting israel but it WAS ALL ABOUT HILLARY.
J-STREET AND DEMOCRAT UNCLE JAKES proved it was not about what was good for Israel but instead what was good for obama and the democrat party.
hopefully some of the thinking jews will get it ONLY JOHN MCCAIN IS QUALIFIED TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
Gov’r Palin was known to have a Israel flag in her office even before she was chosen to be VPOTUS and even though there are very few jews in Alaska. Sarah clearly stated she wasn’t going to second guess an allie (Israel) on how they would defend themseleves.
John McCain saw evil when he was a POW. he clearly knows the iranians are evil Obama says he can talk to them like that is going to work.
Sep 21, 2008 - 4:45 pm 83. GayPatriot » In Obama-speak, Post-partisan means purely partisan:[...] The GOP had tapped vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to speak for our party. Hillary Clinton would speak for the Democrats. That latter backed out, claiming via a spokesman that Palin’s presence was news to them: “Clearly there was some miscommunication because this was never billed to us as a partisan political event. Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending this event” (Via Roger L. Simon). [...]
Sep 22, 2008 - 4:18 pm