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» posted on Sunday, May 17th, 2009 at 11:38 am by admin

 

Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington

All the KVM switches in the world can’t protect US President Barack Obama from differing with Israel’s newly-elected conservative president, Binyamin Netanyahu, a Middle East Reaganite if ever there was one. Yet despite espousing policies up and down the line at odds with Netanyahu’s agenda, Netanyahu is displaying uncommon political courage by traveling to the US this week to meet with Obama.

The collision course of values was set early in Obama’s White House campaign, when Barack claimed he would sit down with terrorists “without preconditions” and when he was praised in a European interview by Jessie Jackson, who claimed that if Obama won, “the era of Israel-first foreign policy will come to an end.”

Since Netanyahu is coming to Washington with an agenda that is topped by stopping Iran’s march toward becoming a nuclear power, rather than peace with the Palestinians, it will be interesting to see which man blinks first.

 

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» posted on Sunday, May 17th, 2009 at 11:14 am by admin

 

Axelrod leads White House to doghouse

David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, appeared on National Public Radio’s game show, “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” and, among other embarrassments, compared Miss California to a canine in what passes for “liberal intelligentsia humor” these days… in other words, crass name-calling.

Miss California Carrie Prejean has been a target of the left ever since she answered honestly and humbly a question about gay marriage during the recent Miss USA pageant. Yet there is no outcry from the National Organization of Women so far over Axelrod’s comparison of Prejean, who is a woman, but not a liberal woman.

All of this undermines President Obama, who recently confirmed that he does not support gay marriage either, but has yet to suffer Axelrod’s canine comparisons for his stance. Perhaps Axelrod’s a bit too overwhelmed with presidential butt-sniffing to critique his boss with the same venom as a beauty pageant contestant unfamiliar with the best diet pills… then again, Obama might bite back, which shows the level of Axelrod’s intellectual cowardice.

 

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