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It was Bush-pressured election that put Hamas in power

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:51:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How conveniently these things are overlooked when lambasting Democrats as weaklings.

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

It's also worth pointing out, as several Israeli security officials and political observers have recently done to me here, a bit of recent history Bush neglected to mention at Israel's parliament. That Israel and the Palestinian Authority have chiefly him to thank for Hamas having a degree of political legitimacy it otherwise would not have had. After all, they point out, it was the Bush administration that "twisted the arm" of Israeli and Palestinian leaders against considerable resistance and skepticism on their part to allow the Palestinian militant group Hamas to run in 2006 Palestinian elections that Hamas won -- an outcome to its policy interventions that the Bush administration once again failed to anticipate.

Tags: bush, elections

Bush fortune "built on the bones" of holocaust victims

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And Grampa Prescott Bush subsidized a coup attempt designed to bring fascism to America. Two holocaust survivors suing Bush family, claiming Gpa Bush benefited materially from Auschwitz slave labor. So let's not have this talk of Democrats being like appeasers.

Clip Source: www.atlargely.com

Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable

Your family's fortune is built on the bones of the very people butchered by the Nazis

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.

two Holocaust survivors suing the US government and the Bush family for a total of $40bn in compensation claim both materially benefited from Auschwitz slave labour

Prescott went so far as to subsidize a coup attempt in order to achieve his dream of a fascist America (see BBC report below)

Tags: bush, nazi, politics

Dems have Obama's back on Bush's "appeasement"

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:28:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Unity at last. Thank you, GWB.

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Joe Biden:

"He is the guy who has weakened us

He has increased the number of terrorists in the world.

Nancy Pelosi:

"I think what the president said in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel."

John Kerry:

This is a disgraceful statement by the president ... He ought to apologize to the American people for going to Israel and using the Knesset

Harry Reid:

the engineer of the worst foreign policy in our nation's history has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round

President Bush has yet to learn that his brand of divisive partisan rhetoric is precisely what has made America and our allies less secure

Howard Dean:

Bush's outrageous comments are an embarrassment to our country

Hillary Clinton

comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy

Tags: elections, politics, news

Lieberman defends Republican's Rev. Hagee

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:20:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow. Good writing, and excellent criticism.

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

"He represents a lot of people in this country, particularly Christians who care about the state of Israel."

Hagee can

assert the Catholic Church, Muslims, Russia, China, Iran and the ACLU are all agents of the Antichrist

He can call America cursed by God -- Wright can't, but Hagee can, because Hagee is... well, what? A Republican? White as the inside of a dinner roll? Too inextricably tied to the GOP power structure to remove?

Hagee's just one preacher out of many in the far-right cable TV Republican God machine

who spend far more time telling people who to hate than who to love and who pull in ungodly (cough) amounts of personal wealth for their trouble

They seek violent military confrontation with Islam and Iran

and preach that the Jews must be returned to Israel so that they can unlock the Jesus Stargate, at which point they will all be either converted or slaughtered.

Why would any Republican want to renounce any of that?

Tags: hagee, news, politics, lieberman

Was it sexism that doomed Clinton?

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: People are right to decry boorish anti-Clinton comments, offensive jokes, and the bilge, bile, and billings-gate of the talk-radio blowhards, as well as occasional over-the-top utterances from cable commentators. But let's not mistake the Bruegelian sideshow for the political mainstream. Even allowing for all that stupidity, the notion that sexism is primarily to blame for Clinton's woes doesn't pass logical muster.

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the notion that sexism is primarily to blame for Clinton's woes doesn't pass logical muster

Consider:

In early October, she led Obama by a staggering 53 percent to 20 percent in the Washington Post/ABC News poll. At that point, her average lead in national polls was 20 percentage points.

Therefore, if gender bias really were the cause of her primary problem, one would have to posit that a epidemic of resurgent sexism suddenly infected the country late last year.

Further, as Clinton herself has pointed out, she has emerged as the favorite of working-class white men, a cohort sometimes viewed as resistant to women politicians.

A better explanation of her misfortune? Running against a candidate whose talents they underestimated, Clinton and her campaign simply missed the boat.

They badly misconceptualized the race

ran a cautious, calculating campaign

it wasn't sexism that has brought Clinton to her current plight

Obama and his team have out-thought, out-sought, and out-fought Clinton and hers

Tags: clinton, sexism, elections, politics