November 1, 2008
I wonder if they make Obama kufi's too?In an interesting New York Review of Books article about a proponent of Yiddish language preservation in America, Harold Bloom shared an interesting observation made by a leading intellectual inspiration for the Neo-Conservatives:Leo Strauss provocatively obser...
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This post is also posted here! If one is following the US presidential election closely- and one should, ye lazy bums- one could get all kinds of interesting information on the candidates from the campaign spokespeople of their contenders. For example, if you listened to the Obama campaign, th...
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Besides the obvious point that the Rashid Khalidi-Obama connection is a complete non-story, it also reeks of the ugliness of political desperation: hate-mongering. Arab-bashing, to borrow liberally from the saying about anti-Semitism, is the ideology of scoundrels. How easily talking heads readily...
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Obama rally deep in the red state... Its over McCain, you ought to concede NOW!...
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By now, no one has any doubt that John McCain’s campaign is in direst of straits. If you didn’t know this, you would after hearing him utter the words in the title of this post. Even stranger, McCain indirectly likened the Chicago dinner that Obama attended to honor Rashid Khalidi to...
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Joe Klein at Time blog: Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism–a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, among Jewish neoconservatives. I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefor...
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Poor McCain could not find any celeb figure to support him except the silly duo Heidi and Spencer and thus he had to create his own celeb and he could not find anyone better than Mr.Joe the Plumber !! Joe now speaks in the GOP rallies as if he were a politician or something ,do not misunderstand me ...
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Another one? Yes, Barack Obama is now linked with Rashid Khalidi, an anti-Semitic professor who was once an employee of the PLO when it was classified as a terrorist organization. Honestly, how many unrepentant terrorists can one presidential candidate be friends with? Not to mention felons like ...
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In response to the compelling posts by Maytha, QuiQui and Nadine, I offer my view on the question of should we vote. I personally get queasy from righteous incantations about one's duty to vote. There is no obligation to vote when the system is rigged to produce limited results. A strained politi...
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