Letters to the Editor
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i agree, learn to play well with others
cos i ain't puttin' my ass on the line for israel.
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@chrislrob
To answer your question succinctly, simplistic reductionism.
You have no empirical support that Obama can get anything done "his way" -- with or without a fight. His excuse for doing nothing to interact with NATO after he flaunted the committees he served on as a Senator was deplorable. He said something like -- well, I got that position when this campaign started so I couldn't really do anything. That is a lazy excuse given the issues surrounding the Iraq war are the lynchpin of his campaign.
Finally, have you heard of the "2 Good 2 Be True Rule." It is a widely known doctrine. The premise of this doctrine is if it seems real easy, it is probably 2 Good 2 Be True. For example: make a $1mil by responding to an e-mail from Nigeria; lose 20 pounds eating BigMac's for every meal; and World Peace achieved from the Audacity to Hope.
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Minutes from the two minute hate meeting
Farrakhazhikistan is a saint, Jews are the DEH-vil, the Palestinians should just get to have all of Israel to themselves, the Jews should all move to Germany and San Francisco, Egypt and Jordan have no responsibility to the Palestinians whatsoever, and it's all Clinton's fault anyway.
Does that about sum it up, guys and girls? I'll type it up and Xerox it so we can refer to it in the next hate conference.
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Wow, dcbrown: You're going to lecture chrislrob for reductionism
and you're using the 2 Good 2 Be True Rule to justify a vote against Obama?
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@ @chrislrob
The too easy to true rule, might be said of the attitude of Hillary and her advisors, who thought they would have the nomination sewed up on Super Tuesday.
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Do over
That should read, sewn up.
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The Audacity Of Hopelessness
You fecking idiots and arseholes, why aren't you responding positively to dourness, despair, sarcasm, non-sequitors, irrationality and nagging? What the feck is wrong with you people????
Call everyone you know and screech and badger them into supporting our campaign.
Failing in our campaign of Hope Hatred is NOT an option!
PS. Dcbrown, keep up the good work, keep on parsing the difference between "denounce" and "reject" from now until this letter section is closed in a few days. Surely there is no greater challenge facing this planet. You, Sir, are a modern-day Paul Revere.
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Jews and San Francisco
..damn straight. Maybe I'll finally be able to find a decent bagel or corned beef sandwich around here.
Why can't the Israeli's play nice with their neighbors, and why is it that we have to pave their road (or airspace) so the hardliners can bomb whomever they want to whenever they want to in the region?
And, let's just add a log to that fire, and add, I personally wish someone, anyone would have been able to step in our way and keep us out of Iraq.
Its the same thing. Israel going after Iran is dangerous. The United States going after Saddam was dangerous. Someone should have stopped us, and I am sick of being labelled an anti-Semite if I should dare suggest that maybe we should stop enabling the Kingdom of Saud or the Likud party.
And yes, maybe if the Jews stop beating up on the Syrians and Palestinians, some of them will move here to San Francisco and make me a fricken real bagel.
There, ulterior motives on my part. I agree with everything the anons said about not wanting to stick my neck out for Israel anymore (and Saudi Arabia, Egypt, or any other anti-freedom hack, war party member for life or shady foreign policy adventure we have stumbled clumsily around in the last 120 years).
Lift the Cuba embargo, free Palestine, stop genocide in Darfur, stop buying diamonds, quit buying oil, growing corn, selling out labor to China, Mexico and India. Straighten up and fly right.
Supporting endless Middle Eastern war is not the way. That's what HRC represents to me.
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@dcbrown
Obama's website even embraces the marketing genius of Farrakahn's "A million" . . ."A million man march"..."A million family" etc. Obama's take "A million people."
ZOMG!!! He used the word 'million'! Plagiarism!
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This Has Nothing To Do With Israel
Farrakhan's bigoted against Jews as such, not just Israelis. Like Russert said, he's called Judaism a "ghetto religion." This is a guy who responded to charges of being a "black Hitler" with a defense of Hitler.* Obama, while denouncing Farrakhan's positions, failed to reject support from a guy who's a bigot. He said he can't tell him to not say he's a good guy. That's really problematic for some people. To then turn it around and claim that Obama's being asked to kowtow to the "Israel lobby" by being asked to reject support from a man who has nice things to say about the Nazis is just further bigotry. Yes, how dare we ask Obama to reject support from a guy who's said that it's the "wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism and homosexuality." Clearly the nefarious Israel Lobby's behind that one!
* "Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'. Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing..."
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verb-subject agreement
Reject and denounce might be relatively synonymous, but Obama never said, "I reject Minister Farrakhan." He never connected the verb "reject" with the subject "Farrakhan." It was a beautiful and purposeful dodge. Imagine the headlines tomorrow if Obama had said, "I reject Minister Farrakhan." Look at Obama's big line. He used both the verbs "denounce" and "reject" without using Farrakhan's name. He avoided the big quote that could well have alienated a significant African American Muslim population.
This is a first in American political history. A black man is the favorite to win the Presidency and is forced to play words games when dealing with the question of black religious fundamentalism.
Oh, by the way, I'm a Clinton supporter now but will joyously support Obama if he wins the nomination.