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Bill Clinton would have gotten as far as he did without Hillary?
But anyway, on to more important matters. That statement about Israel has me pretty worried. I care a lot about the safety of Israel, but I care about THIS country more. I care about women more. I care about poverty and health care more. Holy crap. The willingness of otherwise sensible, otherwise liberal people to get into bed with the Christian right on this, is fucking terrifying. (My mother is such a person, but as she is not a citizen, this willingness is thankfully theoretical only.) Scary, people. Okay, I don't think this woman represents the majority, and there is no centralized location from which a council of elders operates, deciding what American Jews think and feel, but gah!