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Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel

Has there ever been another country besides Israel to which American politicians are required to vow absolute allegiance?

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  • Tuesday, May 13, 2008 03:02 PM

    @Baldie

    bot had better check his own couplings.

    Huhuh. You said "couplings".

    Wasn't someone frothing in here (or linking to said froth) the other day about the Sodomist conspiracy? How W had sold out to it for ... well, whatever one gets in return.

    Re Nuttswack ... it's funny how these things happen, isn't it, all that theorizing about power inevitably seems to lead to wanting access to some of it.

    There's this academic disease when it comes to relevance. Write critically (and often well), tenure, move to elite university, then govt or think tank job. Then they come back to the academy full of themselves and suddenly not so critical (my small-n observation anyway).

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