tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post4622208481321688416..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: More on Nazism and the BrotherhoodMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-38689583761946237622012-07-27T09:44:14.196-07:002012-07-27T09:44:14.196-07:00You have no need to shut up and, yeah, I saw you w...You have no need to shut up and, yeah, I saw you were being ironic about Mormons, which is why I thought it was funny.<br /><br />Y'know, for a long time I considered an Obama re-election as a shoo-in, but now I am not so sure.<br /><br />I think Romney could actually take this thing.<br /><br />Let's hope so, eh?Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-24248569000722935732012-07-27T04:16:28.716-07:002012-07-27T04:16:28.716-07:00We're cool Mike,
You asked for some foreign c...We're cool Mike,<br /><br />You asked for some foreign comment and I've delivered and naturally you can't expect any worthwhile context on domestic issues from me. <br /><br />My comment about Mormons was an attempt at "irony". An art form of humour that Australians and Brits are adept and brought up with but I know from experience can bewilder or irritate Americans. Put it down to cultural difference. <br /><br /><br />On foreign policy, what can I tell you? We're talking about Nazis with the Bomb. Aren't we?<br /><br />If that's not a threat to the species, what is. Who is better to deal with that?<br /><br />That's your decision but you know who I would vote for. I'll shut up now.geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-89477027839425204122012-07-26T18:46:03.505-07:002012-07-26T18:46:03.505-07:00Geoffff,
please do not get me wrong.
It's no...Geoffff,<br /><br />please do not get me wrong.<br /><br />It's not that I believe that an Obama presidency makes for a stronger America, on the contrary, but that is one of the arguments that Jewish Obama supporters in the States advance. They make the argument on progressive economic grounds.<br /><br />The argument in the US, and I imagine it's similar in Australia, has been for a very long time between supply-side economic conservatives versus demand-side economic progressives.<br /><br />Most American Jews believe in demand-side economics and I, in fact, lean in that direction.<br /><br />BUT there is simply no way in hell that I am going to allow the small difference between Democrats and Republicans on economic issues to make me ignore Obama's foreign policy, which is both horrendous and dangerous, particularly for world Jewry.<br /><br /><b><i>Mormons are good hard working and honest people. I hope it's not racist to say that.</i></b><br /><br />Aghghghg!!!!<br /><br />Sorry, that was pretty funny!<br /><br />:o)<br /><br />Of course they are and, of course, it's not the least bit racist to say so.<br /><br />In the west, today, questions of race are, more than anything else, a club. Race is now used as a bully-boy tactic to keep people in line. I just think that it's sad, given the history of racism in the US and the long, hard battle that was fought against it, that now Jews who point out majoritarian Arab and Islamic racism against the Jewish minority in the Middle East are called "racist."<br /><br />What a hideous irony. It's a perversion of history, actually. For a Jew who calls out widespread Islamist racism in the Middle East to be called a "racist" would be something akin to condemning a Jew as a racist for calling out Nazi anti-Jewish racism in the early-mid 20th century.<br /><br />What a sick and evil joke, yet many Jews go for it, either out of ideology or just plain stupidity.<br /><br /><b><i>The guy you vote for in November might be the most important man in our history since we emerged as distinct creatures over 100 000 years ago.</i></b><br /><br />That may very well be, but I have to say that I am getting a bit jaded. Every election cycle for so many years now that tell us that THIS IS THE ONE... and, yet, not a whole lot ever seems to change.<br /><br />Nonetheless, I am voting for Romney.<br /><br />One of the differences between this political blog and some others is that we do not require ideological conformity in order to participate in a friendly manner.<br /><br />{Good for us, eh?}Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-86432691349381451302012-07-25T22:59:10.392-07:002012-07-25T22:59:10.392-07:00"Well, it's up to each of us to decide on..."Well, it's up to each of us to decide on what constitutes "best interest." Many people will say that what's in the best interest of the Jewish people, both Israeli and diaspora, is a strong United States which is precisely why we should vote for Barack Obama."<br /><br />Mike, I would have thought this is precisely the reason why you should NOT vote for Obama. <br /><br />Obama has been good at killing terrorists and he deserves full credit for that. Taking out that piece of filth in Pakistan was hugely impressive but that was just the start of it. I must say I haven't been as exhilarated about deserving dead meat since the Entebbe rescue. <br /><br />But how much has this been due to the power and courage of his political judgement and how much to the skill of the US military and, importantly, the dramatic advances in Drone technology?<br /><br />One of those machines has already had a nomination for the Geoffff's Joint Peace Prize and I can report here exclusively, sourced from an insider on the nomination committee, that it's only a matter of time before one picks up the award. Get your bets on now. <br /><br />Apart from that, what?<br /><br />You know what.<br /><br />I don't like buying into this in a conversation with Americans because to do so seems to me to show disrespect for Americans. It's your country and you know it best and it's your decision. But I am a passionate friend of the US and your decision does affect the rest of us so I guess I can say this.<br /><br />If I was an American in 2008 I would have voted for Obama for sure. No question. I would have been out wearing his buttons and I can tell you his victory warmed a middle aged man's heart. At one time I worked as a defence lawyer in my country in native communities and I am pretty certain that, as liberals, you do not need me to tell you the name of the book and movie that changed my life.<br /><br />You are right. "socialism", "capitalism" and other economic ideologies are not reasons to vote. No one believes that crap any more except some lunatics on the left and some lunatics on the right who have always struck me as saying the same lunatic things. If it wasn't for the suits and haircuts you couldn't tell them apart. <br /><br />There is a huge issue in the world today and we all know what it is. We are faced with the worst threat to our species since the Nazis. The guy you vote for in November might be the most important man in our history since we emerged as distinct creatures over 100 000 years ago.<br /><br />I sure hope that isn't Obama. <br /><br />The other guy? He's said and done all the right things so far. Mormons are good hard working and honest people. I hope it's not racist to say that.geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-11085881641144151962012-07-25T17:58:53.218-07:002012-07-25T17:58:53.218-07:00And again, I'm not disparaging anybody's d...And again, I'm not disparaging anybody's decision to live anywhere they please. My problem, however, is with those who <i>DO</i> have a problem with their own choices, and yet decide that it's best to just smear others to assuage their own guilt.<br /><br />People like that are amongst the very worst who walk this earth, imo.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-46309763404064831132012-07-25T17:55:54.649-07:002012-07-25T17:55:54.649-07:00Such tendencies are rather obviously explained awa...Such tendencies are rather obviously explained away by a particular form of Liberal White Guilt, 'School -<br /><br />"Jews are as diverse as any people, I suppose. That does not provide license to cast aspersion against those that seek to present evidence of blatant hatred toward Jews, Israel, America, that is irrefutable yet far too unknown by most people. To call it bigotry and the like is not a serious reply, but an empty one."<br /><br />I've found, all too often, at least amongst such types here in the US, that those who are the quickest and the loudest to level "racistbigotracistbigotracist!!1!" charges, are those who consider themselves of the Left, yet who made the decision that it was best to raise their families in areas with as few non-white folks as possible.<br /><br />They're clearly uncomfortable with this, so to assuage their guilt at their own not-so-subtle racism, they have decided they must loudly smear as many people as possible with that disgusting label. Evidence or any kind of proof whatsoever be damned. After all, they have none. But they must do this to clear their own consciences. To make themselves feel like good progressives.<br /><br />It is a sickness.<br /><br />And it apparently clearly hurts some of them when I point this out, so I must be onto something.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-87508777750435553692012-07-25T10:30:25.759-07:002012-07-25T10:30:25.759-07:00Well, it's up to each of us to decide on what ...Well, it's up to each of us to decide on what constitutes "best interest." Many people will say that what's in the best interest of the Jewish people, both Israeli and diaspora, is a strong United States which is precisely why we should vote for Barack Obama.<br /><br />I'm just not buying it because I refuse to vote for an American president who (much like some 14th century Italian potentate) feels he has a right to tell Jewish people where we may or may not live.<br /><br />It's a matter of self-respect, really.<br /><br />I will also not vote for an American president who doesn't really believe that the Jewish people want peace and that we are in need of further self-reflection.<br /><br />And this, too, is a matter of self-respect.<br /><br />As for the best interests of the American people, I am not the least bit convinced that the Democrats are just so much better for the country that I need to vote for them despite Obamas behavior toward the Jewish state.<br /><br />The truth of the matter is that there is a broad political consensus among the American people, left, right, and center, Democrat and Republican. <br /><br /><b>We are, almost all of us, regulatory capitalists.</b><br /><br />The only real difference between the parties is what kind of regulation and where. The Democrats want a little more regulation in some areas and a little less in others. Ditto for the Republicans, although they tend to disagree on just where to emphasize regulations.<br /><br />It's only political partisans who insist that one party or the other was born from the devil.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-12776004004519389182012-07-24T22:13:37.511-07:002012-07-24T22:13:37.511-07:00I have never been so comfortable with Obama from b...I have never been so comfortable with Obama from back in 2007. I criticize him as a Democrat. Too many Democrats refuse to speak for fear it helps Republicans, when it seems to me it hurts Democrats. Is Obama the only Democrat above scrutiny and criticism when deserved?<br /><br />When it comes to what constitutes "best interest" of people and peoples when it comes to voting, who is to say what that means, and to what degree.<br /><br />Jews are as diverse as any people, I suppose. That does not provide license to cast aspersion against those that seek to present evidence of blatant hatred toward Jews, Israel, America, that is irrefutable yet far too unknown by most people. To call it bigotry and the like is not a serious reply, but an empty one.oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-54198018884919872722012-07-24T21:11:24.413-07:002012-07-24T21:11:24.413-07:00There is no possible way that I will vote for Bara...There is no possible way that I will vote for Barack Obama come November, but the only thing that gives me a little pause is that the Democrats tend to be better on domestic economic issues.<br /><br />The difference between the parties, as I hope we've all realized over time, is not all that great on economic issues. The Republicans are a tad more hard-nosed and the Democrats are a bit more loose with the purse strings... but that's basically it.<br /><br />I think tho, School, that there comes a point when a people need to vote their self-interest. The whole electoral-political history of the United States is grounded in peoples voting their interests, so why should Jews be any different?<br /><br />We, as a people, seem to have this thing wherein we think that voting for what is in our own best interest is somehow wrong, but that is precisely how everyone else votes.<br /><br />How odd.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-24591858233687903902012-07-24T20:22:29.294-07:002012-07-24T20:22:29.294-07:00Some people actually look at Obama's policies ...Some people actually look at Obama's policies in the Middle East and find no fault in the decisions.<br /><br />At the time, Carter's way to deal with Iran seemed reasoned, but the results showed the error of judgment. Obama seems not to have learned very much.<br /><br />Republicans, however, seem to have small regard for the causes of economic suffering in the US and policies that produce more negative effects.oldschooltwentysixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672887176887940797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-39413306178558523382012-07-24T20:02:13.757-07:002012-07-24T20:02:13.757-07:00Well, you can't blame the Republicans for taki...Well, you can't blame the Republicans for taking advantage of Obama's horrendous Mid East policy, that much is certain.<br /><br />I still haven't decided if I want to actually endorse Romney. I will, I think, vote for him as the lesser of evils... but do I actually want to endorse?<br /><br />I'm simply not sure, yet.<br /><br />Of course, I am under no obligation to endorse anyone and my endorsement would have zero meaning to the outcome, anyway.<br /><br />That, too, is certain.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-69687291484732510482012-07-24T19:32:52.247-07:002012-07-24T19:32:52.247-07:00“President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel’s lea...“President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel’s leaders,” Romney said. “The people of Israel deserve better than what they have received from the leader of the free world. And the chorus of accusations, threats, and insults at the United Nations should never again include the voice of the president of the United States.”<br /><br />One of Romney's core messages was attacking Obama’s relationship with Israel, a common theme for Republican candidates during the primary.<br /><br />Romney was cutting in his criticism of how Obama has dealt with Israel, accusing the president of neglect and "shabby treatment" of a key ally.<br /><br />The Republican presidential candidate also slammed Obama, alleging without mentioning specifics, that officials in his administration had leaked details of American cyber-attacks on Iran, and for, as he perceived, not succeeding sufficiently at undermining Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons.<br /><br />“There is no greater danger in the world today than the prospect of the ayatollahs in Tehran possessing nuclear weapons capability,” Romney said. “Yet for all the talks and conferences, all of the extensions and assurances, can anyone say we are farther from this danger now than four years ago?”<br /><br />http://www.jpost.com/USPresidentialrace/Article.aspx?id=278775Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.com