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The Obama Watch

America in Retreat

The price of alleged popularity.

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Obama's response? Undetectable, but for a dose of denial: queried on the Iranian-Syrian summit, the State Department's Philip Crowley spoke as though Syria shares Washington's concerns rather than Tehran's delight in Iran's drive to nuclear weapons, volunteering the hope "that Syria's communicating to Iran its concerns about its role in the region and the direction, the nature of its nuclear ambitions."

Disdaining the carrots and seeing no sticks, Assad now opposes an Arab League call for resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks, a high priority for Obama. Yet, even the existing, meager level of formal U.S. disapproval -- withholding an ambassador to Damascus -- is something Obama has sought to reverse and would have done so by now if not for the bipartisan skepticism of Congress.

The scene is similar wherever one looks: Russia is wooed with last year's cancellation of missile defense installations not even aimed at Russia in neighboring American allies, Poland and the Czech Republic. Yet this abandonment, welcomed by those pleased to call themselves "realists," elicits undetectable dividends from Moscow, which is still further indulged. Reset buttons are pressed by Hilary Clinton, but Russia thinks nothing of judicially kidnapping an American businessmen and sequestering his Russia-based companies.

To take two further examples of this policy, Obama has been voluble praising Brazil's Lula de Silva and Turkey's Tacip Recep Erdogan, ideologically anti-American leaders of erstwhile allies whom Obama has chosen to pretend are the friends their predecessors were. But such unseemly sycophancy has availed Obama only the slap in the face of both men siding with Iran and opposing Obama's UN sanctions bill.

Such pretenses of continuing friendship have not even contained the brewing tensions that could have been foreseen: Obama's pandering to Erdogan's vanity by seeking his mediation with Iran yielded neither Iranian compliance nor Turkish support. But it has now produced American-Turkish tensions while Tehran chuckles with schadenfreude.

Meanwhile, one of America's best allies in Latin America, Colombia, has still not secured a long-heralded free trade agreement with Washington. Impoverished Honduras deposes and exiles a lawless president, Manuel Zelaya, seeking constitutionally proscribed prolongation of tenure, only to be hit with American-led condemnation, suspension of aid and a demand (eventually dropped when proven ineffective in the face of Honduran pluck) to reinstate Zelaya. The only cheers this American-led beat-up of a small, harmless democracy produced were in Raul Castro's Havana and Hugo Chavez' Caracas. And Obama's efforts to lift U.S. sanctions on Cuba have proceeded without regard to the remorseless continuation of Cuban domestic repression, attested to by various human rights groups.

The preeminent 19th century Austrian statesman, Metternich, once said, "diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." If that is true, one could say that Obama has dispensed with an ensemble of allies while pursuing an a-cappella foreign policy predicated on the instrumentality of his own voice. But after 18 months, America's friends find it unmelodious and its enemies unimpressive. A vacuum of stability and security beckons with baleful consequences sure to emerge on his watch.

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About the Author

Daniel Mandel is a Fellow in History at Melbourne University and author of H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist (Routledge, London, 2004). His blog can be found on the History News Network.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (76) | Leave a comment

Ret. Marine| 7.12.10 @ 7:32AM

Obummer boy, will do nothing but to add to the disgraces we once saw out of high, I'm ah peanut picker n' my name is jimaaaaaaah carter and i'm ah anti-semite and an America hater so well. This pretender-n-theif, obama, is a typical demonrat party animal who is hell bent upon a pox for this Nation and it's future citizens. While he think of us as his subjects, we know better, he is a slave to the one world order mental midgets and their influences. I am willing to bet he does not make it to the end of this year before there will be the start of the WW4 on his desk, he will need it in order to keep the heat off him for his piss-poor performance as a supposed leader of the free-world. This guy is a disaster awaiting for a time to happen. God help all of us. Pray for the strenght to never surrender to this fraud and fool or his henchmen/minions.

Alan Brooks| 7.12.10 @ 5:46PM

Obama is much better than Carter; if Carter had been re-elected America might no longer exist.

Alan Brooks| 7.12.10 @ 5:55PM

Today?:
Ahmadinejad has got to be sent to that Great Persian Rug Factory in the sky.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.12.10 @ 8:05AM

It's a good article but when you referenced Iran, it would have been more accurate to write "The Obama Regime engaged the Iran Regime," as opposed to "He engaged the regime."

Deborah D| 7.12.10 @ 8:27AM

Oh, but Obama is so smart! We've been told so by the New York Times and the Washington Post, so it must be true. Unfortunately, world leaders know he's not a chess player, and the only country he wants to subdue is our own. I'm sure they'll only be too happy to help him in our destruction.

davelnaf| 7.12.10 @ 8:33AM

It’s too bad we have to lose four years to a part of our populations’ failed experiment—or is it self-indulgence?—in a socialist presidency. This is what they get for ignoring all the indications Obama freely gave during the campaign that he was not a moderate.

It’s ironic that Obama and company are hoping that the market economy (that is, the real economy) comes out of recession before November and saves their worthless socialist derrieres. The degree of pressure they are under for the economy to recover could be seen on Axelrod’s face as he appeared on “Fox News Sunday” giving his best impersonation of Bush 41’s famous “message: I care.”

There might be some method yet to Obama’s madness, but the only thing we’ve seen so far is Obama’s madness.

Louis Jenkins| 7.12.10 @ 9:13AM

I too saw "Fox News Sunday" and was not impressed by Axelrod's usual mumbo-jumbo. While it is too much to hope for the truth, I noted that he spoke in the usual Obama platitudes. They can hope for an economic recovery, but forget it. This nation is in a nose dive, and I seriously doubt the "I care" message will get traction. In fact, it only serves to mire us deeper in the Obuma mud.

Stuart Koehl| 7.12.10 @ 9:11AM

The small picture next to this article on the home page is "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" by Paul Delarouche. Unlike the more famous painting by Jacques-Louis David, which shows the Corsican astride a white Arabian stallion, hair blowing heroically, and pointing onward to Italy (with a graffito by Hannibal in the lower corner, just to make the point), Delarouche depicts the scene with historic verisimilitude: Napoleon crossed the Alps on an ass, in the sleet, looking very sorry indeed (on the downside, he was forced to slide along on his own ass).

I suppose, because of the forelorn look on Napoleon's face, some editor at AmSpec thought this was about the Retreat From Moscow, but far from showing Napoleon in decline, it shows him in the ascendent, about to win one of his most significant victories which would secure his position atop the French government for the next fourteen years.

Appearances of decline can be very deceiving.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.12.10 @ 9:29AM

Mr. Mandel has sorta' handed us a warmed over limp regurgitation here.

Honestly, I could not pick up on one new fact or insight.

Hershl| 7.12.10 @ 10:49AM

We are about to be attacked by Iran.

We have been told the details.

We were told them by one of our spies within the Iranian establishment. He even publicly detailed this on Capitol Hill recently.

And what, if anything, is being done by our Moron in Chief?

http://jewishdailyreport.wordp.....-says-spy/

t-party america| 7.12.10 @ 10:53AM

im so surprised this jewish journalist puts israel first ahead of america and spouts lies in defense of a third world toilet whose support we are forced into by jewish interests here in america. send your jew children to die invading iran,

aindyin| 7.12.10 @ 11:30AM

Wow what an anti-semetic you are, and how clever of you to use t-party as your handle sure fooled me into thinking your a conservative.

Christopher Holland| 7.12.10 @ 11:04PM

Shouldn't you be cleaning out the crematoria at Auschwitz? Get back to work, you animal.

AMERICA FIRST| 7.12.10 @ 10:58AM

my fellow americans...ask yourself why jews saw it so important to own 93 percent of all american media, will you send YOUR chid to die in wars for israel? google "jews spitting on american christians in israel" google "israel bans christmas trees in israel" google jews burning christian churches in israel"

Clinton nee Publius| 7.12.10 @ 1:35PM

You're right. All those Jewish suicide bombers over the years have completely destabilized the Mid-East. They have their problems, just like we do. We have Christians being spit on here in the United States by liberal-progressives of the atheist ilk. The difference is that Israel is a democracy and Iran is a tyranny and Palestine is just another Muslim feudal society that you are promoting because you like the idea of being part of the ruling class. A bankrupt philosophy that has been promoted by the Muslim faith since its inception. It doesn't allow for Christians and it doesn't allow for anyone else - only Muslims. It's a cult conspiracy that finds its roots in the same criminality as the modern liberal movement - the idea that all the rest of us should be forced to work to sustain your sense of personal power, privilege and entitlement at our own expense and our own risk. This is the price you would have us pay so that we could have the right to live under you as our overlord.

Thanks, pal. We saw what it looked like under Stalin. We saw what happens when freedom becomes just mere words when Mao became leader of China. We see the great prosperity experienced by the world's only true socialist society (North Korea) and we desire something better.

You and the people that support the criminal conspiracy cult of progressivism only support the concept of being our overlords and acting as the modern version of Robin Hood to steal our money and give it to your co-conspirators. You go your way and we'll go ours. Hopefully, enough of us will wake up to put you in jail, put you on a train or put you in the ground. On that day, freedom will surely ring.

Deborah D| 7.12.10 @ 2:49PM

These people writing these racist, anti-semitic rants are not conservatives. They are the racist (historically so) anti-semites of the liberal/progressive/Democrat Party. American Jewish voters, please pay attention. The Democrat Party does not have your best interests at heart.

Destruction of Israel and America are their goals.

eigthman| 7.13.10 @ 5:02AM

Yeah and that's why 93% of the media is the voice of anti-Semitism that it is, now dressed as anti-Zionism. muslims and nazis have a common agenda, no doubt this poster is either white and the latter or the former and both. I suppose to avoid being the target of muslim terrorism Americans will gladly be told who they should support and not support, that there are too many Jews in goverment, newspapers, medicine, business etc. etc. This guy likes the idea of having Americans being coerced into what they will and will not do, who they will and will not punish. That's right, America should have invaded Israel in response to 9/11!! Good luck with that. No country can prevail against the armies of the living God. Not only will the churches and the mosques be taken down in Israel, but the synagogues as well - they are all idolatrous.

No country in the history of the world has ever profited from anti-Semitism. America will not be the first. Obama turns his back on Israel and your country is starting to fall apart.

Before it was 'the Jews run America'. Ha!! I suppose that's why everyone was breaking down the doors to get into the US up until Obama!! And if that were true there wouldn't be a 'palestinian' or arab presence in the midst of Israel for the last 50 yrs.

Now its the 'the Jews run the newspapers' Ha!! That is too stupid to merit any serious consideration. Only a muslim who doesn't get to read anything other that an 'official' newspaper could post that rubbish.

Why is it that fools do not put more effort into their lies?

Christian country rising| 7.13.10 @ 3:04PM

google "jewish ownership of american media" and youll see how 93 percent is jewish owned. ask yourselves why would 2 percent of the population deem it neccessary to own 93 percent of all the media in a host country??? one of jews biggest fears is that americans will realize jews work as a collective to further jewish interests in our country. german jews were 1 percent of german population in 1920 but owned 97 percent of the print media why? they accounted for 74 percent of all elected officials in government why?? they controlled the importing and exporting of foods and equipment and in 1933 they along with jews in new york and europe announced a boycott on germany when hitler came to power google it it was an attempt to starve germany into submission for becoming nationalistic and kicking jews out of government. only after jews attempted to starve germany into submission did hitler rip them out of all media,government and banking and put jewish stars on jewish businesses so germans could boycott them for their treason. google these facts and ask yourselves is this not exactly what they are doing in our country?

Anthony| 7.12.10 @ 10:59AM

The hubris of the "educated class" (Thomas Sowell) will be the downfall of America, unless we give the so called "educated class" a good kick in the ass.
Barry, and his pointy headed Ivy's, have positioned America's enemies to take full advantage of Obama's idiocy and naivete'.
I'm still steaming over that State Department leaker who, towards the end of the Bush Administration, leaked the "Intelligence Estimate", (talk about an oxymoron) that Iran was decades away from a nuclear weapon, to insure that Bush would take no action against Iran.
I bet he/she was one of the "educated class", as well as a traitor.

michaelle| 7.12.10 @ 11:28AM

The jews in america or not the jews in Israel.

Mich estevez| 7.12.10 @ 11:41AM

Is that english?

eigthman| 7.13.10 @ 7:32AM

That's for sure. The Jews in America serve their own agenda. Barbara Streisand and the fascist progressives of the hollywood troupe invent ever new anti-Semitic canards and don't care how much Israeli blood they spill to try and 'prove' their credentials.

They put that anti-Semite Obama into office. Has this placated the 'no nothings', muslims and nazis on this site? Never!! If muslims kill Americans - Its the fault of the Joos!! HA!! The muslims declare their agenda to take over the world but its the 'conspiracy' of the JOOS that fixates these lunatics! Truly you are lost. Anti-Semitism is denial. Denial of truth, denial of responsibility, denial of the plain facts before your nose. Anti-Semitism is the divine wind that ordains your punishment. How many Germans would have believed that in 1940? America needs Israel - not the other way round. The Jews have seen bigger empires that this come and go. Americans think that their power is of their own grant. So did Pharoah's Egypt.

The world will bend to His will and it will be a wonder that 5 million Jews stand and prevail by His grace!! Screw American Jews!!

Louis Jenkins| 7.12.10 @ 11:28AM

This article at the American Thinker says it all:

http://www.americanthinker.com.....acism.html

ronpaul2012| 7.12.10 @ 11:33AM

American thinker blog- 100 percent jewish working to influence american public opinion on behalf of israel. I agree with the other commenter time to put AMERICA FIRST.

Deborah D.| 7.12.10 @ 2:55PM

We know you aren't a Ron Paul supporter because no Ron Paul supporter would write such hate. Move along, liar.

Julian| 7.12.10 @ 7:20PM

Actually Ron paul supporters are EXACTLY like him they have an isolationist mindset and nazi like nationalism we should be very wary of the ron paul movement

Christopher Holland| 7.12.10 @ 11:07PM

As long as the likes of you are at the end of the queue.

t-party america| 7.12.10 @ 11:40AM

Israel is not worth one american life nor one american dollar. vote ron paul and crush the jewish lobby. INVADING IRAN=12 dollar gasoline and our children coming home in bodybags, and a countrywide depression. will jewish journalists ever tell you the consequences of invading iran??? do they care?? of course not jews have a country set up where jews can escape to when their treasonous behavior gets exposed.

Clinton nee Publius| 7.12.10 @ 1:39PM

Nice try, plant. Playing the part of the agent-provocateur and hoping to get away with it?

Defending Iran will win you all sorts of friends - in Russia, China and Iran, but none here in America.

Time to head back to the party meeting and sing the Internationale, comrade Jew-hater.

Deborah D| 7.12.10 @ 2:53PM

Get your lying "t-party america" moniker out of here. Our Tea Partiers are all-American, non-haters. You are a sickening human being.

Is that you, Rahm? Or maybe it's Axelrod.

Christopher Holland| 7.12.10 @ 11:11PM

I never once heard a single Israeli asking a single American to defend them. Not one. What they do ask for is the right to defend themselves and not have people like you get in the bloody way. Push off and mind your own business.

AMERICA FIRST| 7.13.10 @ 12:19AM

you pieces of shit are pressuring us to attack iran and sacrifice our boys for you jewish homeland just like iraq. keep betraying our country on behalf of jewish interests.....remember the last country you betrayed from inside....how did that work out for you??? you filth wouldnt need to have israel to run and hide in if you didnt constantly work against your host countries. wait til ron paul gets in,see how things will change for your tribe of traitors.

eigthman| 7.13.10 @ 8:04AM

Hey America First? Was your father/grandfather in the pacific theatre of operations? Are you alive today because he lived through that? Well, over 1 million Jewish soldiers fought against those whom you now support. The Jews saved your white arse!! (If its white)

'Jewish Physics' you know the JOOS who invented the atom bomb, meant that a mainland assault of Japan, with over 1 million allied soldiers, was not required. You know the Japan that was arming 28million civilians to repel said assault? You know like the American casualties from Iwo Jima (50%) and Saipan(25%). There are 5 million Americans alive today directly because of that JOOOISH intervention. You OWE US!! The Jews are going to start complainng and its going to deafen shits like you. You think you have a 'Jewish problem' now!!?? HA!!! Not used to Jews complaining?? You haven't seen anything yet!! You don't know what trouble is. You think muslims are bothersome??

And nevermind the fact that the German diversion of resources into killing, gassing, transporting, starving and torturing the JOOS of Europe consumed German resources into entirely unproductive, non-military ends. How many white arses were saved by the fact that 30 German divisions were doing this 'work'?

Just think what could have happened if those 30 divisions were on the flanks of the German 6th army outside Stalingrad, instead of the Rumanians and Italians, when the Russian winter offensive occured in 1943? Yeah there wouldn't be any Jews left but there sure as hell would not be any Americans left either!!

Screw the indulgent self-centred ignorant shits like this, born into luxury, fought for nothing, got nothing at stake and have nothing but a sense of their own entitlement. That's why muslim countries are the 'great' states that they are. That's the same promise crap like you hold for America. You deserve it. Anti-Semitism comes with its own rewards.

Al Adab| 7.12.10 @ 11:41AM

My memory must be slipping. I remember that the United States was attacked on 9-11 not Israel. Am I missing something there?

Of course Iran threatens Israel. They also threraten the U. S. Add N. Korea into the mix and our world is a very dangerous place and getting more so. Of course in order to fight a war one must admit one is at war. Since we are involved in oversea contingency operations (BS) there will be no end, no victory as that is not the goal.

AMERICA FIRST| 7.12.10 @ 11:50AM

page 140 of the 9/11 commission report states alqueidas motivation for killing americans in the attack was Americas support for Israeli occupation and killing of palestinians. Americans despise the killing of innocent women and children and do not support israel but we are forced to do so by Aipac and the jewish lobby who care nothing about how many americans die in terror attacks. the coordinated lie of "they hate our freedom" by the 93 percent jewish owned media to keep americans from questioning the cost of our support for Israel was nothing short of treason

Al Adab| 7.12.10 @ 1:14PM

Who cares what the motivation may have been. The Japanese attacked because we violated their free trade. Give it a rest. Actually don't fully 1/3 of Democrats believe 9-11 was staged by the evil Bush?

AMERICA FIRST| 7.12.10 @ 1:25PM

WHO CARES???? Israeli jews kill women and children and we get attacked for it because we are FORCED to support israel and you dont care??? and actually the vast majority of democrats who arnt jewish are vehemently anti aipac/jewish lobby because they know support for israel is forced upon us by jewish interests loyal only to israel

Al Adab| 7.12.10 @ 3:01PM

Poo sick puppy.

Rest assured though that it isn't parnoia if they really are after you. The conspiracy lives on.

eigthman| 7.14.10 @ 5:21AM

Women and children? They are only 'women and children' for the purposes of the nazi fascist arab left like you when they die indirectly by Israeli retaliation- being purposely put in harms way for propaganda purposes like this - as a result of Jewish self-defensive actions precipitated by arab aggression.

When they are sent as the ideological homicide fodder strapped with bombs to kill Jewish children they are celebrated as martyers!! No-one talks about 'women and children' then - just 'jihad'.

The industrial commodification of women and children has reached it apogee under arab tutelage. What do they care about their kids? 'We can make more' is their response.

Like if that's how you treat your women and children WE are supposed to care about them more than you?? Usual 'arab' logic. We don't give a shit about your children especially if you don't.

For the purposes of trying to stifle and compromise Jewish self defense you wail about 'women and children' for the compliant Western press HA! You bet sonny. We are going to kill all your women and children. (Like there were no kindergartens in Hamburg, Dresden or Berlin under the 8th airforce)

The earth will be red with arab blood. They are going to be fertilizer. The God of Israel is going to crush this insolence, this insult to human dignity into the dirt and there is nothing you or anyone will be able to do about it.

JmsA| 7.12.10 @ 3:19PM

U.S. and Japanese relations had been quite strained in the late thirties, following the unprovoked attack by the Japanease on the gunboat USS Panay while at anchor in the Yangtze River outside of Nanking in 1937, and the Allison incident in 1938, when a Japanese officer struck the U.S. Ambassador in the face and the Japanese looted and destroyed U.S. property. Further adding to the tensions were the continued U.S. Government demands the Japanese cease its conquest of China (they had conquered Korea in 1910 and Manchuria in 1932, which ultimately led to the Japan leaving the League of Nations), and the embargo of raw materials, particularly petroleum, imposed on Japan by the U.S. under the leadership of FDR. Japan's expansionist agenda under the cynical guise of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" thus threatened, the Japanese struck south into French Indochina, and the Dutch East Indies, etc., in search of much needed raw materials, following the surrender of France and the Netherlands to the Nazis. Part and parcel of this was to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, not only to protect their flank, but ultimately in the hope they could present the U.S., who they believed did not have the stomach for a fight, particularly given the increasing Nazi dominance in Europe--the fait accompli of Japanese hegemony in East Asia.

Clinton nee Publius| 7.12.10 @ 1:43PM

They attack us because freedom is something that cannot be allowed to happen in a Muslim society. Freedom means that accountability will become the standard for conduct and economic feudalism would be forced to compete against capitalism and we all know how that will end.

Your support for Palestine is nothing short of treason; after all, if the Muslim terrorists win, do you think you will be somehow exempt from the Jihadist sword? You won't. They despise heretical pussbags like you most of all. Your anti-Semitism is almost as despicable as your use of the title 'America First". You should put up your real title: "Bigot First" and be done with it.

Christopher Holland| 7.12.10 @ 11:15PM

Can't you do better than this infantile drivel? At least try and sound coherent and thoughtful.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.12.10 @ 12:49PM

Well folks,
The Jewish haters have finally gotten out of bed.

Congratulations you Islamic pedophiles. Raped any Jewish children ...yet...today?

Slammed any Jewish babies' heads against a wall yet today?

How many of you beat your wives with a wand..."no bigger than a finger" (Koran)...today?

How many of you raped your 9 year old "bride" again today?

You know folks,

To the best of my recollection... we have not been attacked by Jewish terrorists lately.

When I read posts like the ones above, I laugh and cry at the same time.

You Jew haters also make me want to puke. I won't puke though. I will oil my rifle instead, you cowardly puke bits.
I really and truly hope you pop your heads up in Houston. I love shooting galleries.

72 virgins for you? Heh. Make a mess in Texas and you can meet those innocent little girls who must put up with your pedophile desires for eternity.

The Lord God of the Universe doesn't work that way.
He will not allow you to tarnish little girls for a moment...much less for eternity.

You will spend eternity...in darkness...and HORNY!

.....and the Lord God of the Universe will take those 72 innocent little girls nto His arms and will protect them from you.

You guys are SO screwed.

TPARTYPAUL| 7.12.10 @ 1:19PM

The jew trick of trying to diminish and trivialize the fact that AMERICANS are no longer putting up with jewish influence and manipulation of our media and government by pretending you think the american patriots on this thread are muslims, sorry my little jew traitor friend your games are old.Oh and btw that fake texas goodolboy image your trying to project is not fooling anyone,you are a JEW who is loyal only to your home israel, AMERICA FIRST dont like it get out! my tax dollars feed your childrens jew bellies and in return you people undermine our christian values and way of life and your hate of jesus disgusts us with your ADL war on christmas. VOTE RON PAUL !!!!! CRUSH JEWISH INFLUENCE........AMERICA FIRST

Clinton nee Publius| 7.12.10 @ 1:45PM

Now using a different name for the same treacle? I'm glad you and President Obama are on the same page on this.

John Q Public| 7.12.10 @ 10:18PM

DITTO

John Q Public| 7.12.10 @ 10:19PM

DITTO

Christopher Holland| 7.12.10 @ 11:19PM

Did somebody open a can of lunatics? They are all over the floor - what a mess.

ron parsley 56| 7.12.10 @ 1:28PM

No citizen can serve 2 masters I agree AMERICA FIRST.

Deborah D| 7.12.10 @ 2:58PM

How much are you and ruin america first getting paid by Rahm and Axelrod? Changing names makes it so much fun, doesn't it?

Christopher Holland| 7.12.10 @ 11:22PM

No citizen has been asked to serve two masters. What the hell are you talking about? I think you need to reboot the random word generator that you use for a brain.

Datsun Mark| 7.12.10 @ 3:27PM

Obama thinks the world sees the samething he sees... a struggle between Left wing ideals vs. Right wing hegemony. His thinking is 9-11 happened because we elected GW Bush in a corrupt 2000 election process...that's why they attacked us. He doesn't understand that the rest of the world couldn't give two rat behinds over ideology of Left vs Right. They simply hate us because we exist, we've been properous and we're not believers to Islam.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.12.10 @ 3:33PM

Hi Deborah D.

These so-called "America firsters" are probably nohing more than Islamic pedophiles among us...or perhaps even writing from muslim countries.
It truly is the "world wide web" you know.

It makes no difference, really. These are the same cowards who hide behind their women and children when it comes to war.

Just remember, if they ever do come out from behind their women and children, be sure to have some good ole' Armour pork bacon in your knapsack to grease your ammunition with.

Their stupid little god sends them straight to hell, with swine fat in their guts.
We genuine Christians stand with Israel.

Deborah D| 7.13.10 @ 11:56AM

Hey there Ken -- It wouldn't surprise me if they are who you say, but they really aren't much different from our lefty Dems. I've read that Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn were part of the group behind the Turkish boat (Islamists) who attacked the Jewish sailors boarding their ship recently (trying to get around Israel's blockade of Gaza). These groups really are working together in some quarters. Makes me wonder -- which alligator will eat the other last?

Tim*| 7.12.10 @ 6:50PM

The Professional Black Race Hustlers from The NAACP take a Vote tomorrow condemning Racist Elements in The Tea Party .

This is The Bus callin' The Canary Yellow.

The Tea Party doesn't allow Black Race Hustlers to "Define " Us.

The Tea Party Rebellion Now Escalates Further .

We Remember In November .

Real Patriot| 7.12.10 @ 7:14PM

RON PAUL is an enemy to the united states. he has stated time and time again we were attacked because of our one sided support for Israel.We must not let the paul followers take control of the tea party they are adamant about severing americas relationship with our greatest ally Israel.The ron paul movement blames our terror problem on support for Israel just take a look at his website and the comments,The paul supporters on this thread are Identical to the millions of others in their antisemetism and conspiratorial attutude towards jews. BLESS ISRAEL AND YOU SHALL BE BLESSED.

Tim*| 7.12.10 @ 7:35PM

Ron Paul and his supporters didn't Vote For Obama , Agenda Boy .

But 78 Percent of Jewish-Americans and 90 Percent of Muslims did.
Explain that Elephant in the Middle of The Room .

Abe| 7.12.10 @ 8:04PM

Ron Paul and his skinhead/nazi followers are nothing more than a freak show no real conservative takes them seriously and majority leader Eric Cantor has called him out for his anti israel statements.He is a joke of a man.

Purple Lips| 7.12.10 @ 9:49PM

But does he wank? That is the question which our Progressives seek! No Tosser allowed inside the hallowed halls of Obamadom!

Tim*| 7.12.10 @ 8:33PM

April19th ,2010 :
" The Politico/Target Point survey, an exit poll conducted Thursday by Edison Research at the massive Tax Day protest on the National Mall, found that the attendees were largely hostile to President Barack Obama and the national Democratic Party — three-quarters believe the president “is pursuing a socialist agenda.”

Yet they aren’t enamored of the Republican Party as an alternative. Overall, three out of four tea party attendees said they were “scared about the direction” of the country and “want to send a message to both political parties.
When asked to choose from a list of candidates for president in 2012, Palin and Paul also finished one-two — with Palin at 15 percent and Paul at 14 percent. "

Dick Simmons| 7.12.10 @ 10:00PM

My, the Jew-haters are busy tonight! Sorry guys, your rants posing as t-party screed wear thin. We all know you for the leftist trash you are. Try again.

RCV| 7.12.10 @ 10:44PM

The right in this country has never needed pinch-hitting when it comes to anti-semitism. Pat Buchanan proudly carries on the tradition, and it's a long one.

stand and deliver| 7.12.10 @ 10:12PM

Why the attacks on Mr paul ? frankly I couldnt care less if Mr paul supports Israel or not I care that he supports the United States and maybe nationalism is what this country needs after 4 years of obama and his bending to foreign interests be it Iran or Israel.We need someone who thinks in terms of "is it good for America" rather than is it good for Jewish or Muslim interests when making foreign policy decisions.

rushyoungberg| 7.12.10 @ 11:39PM

We are told that a majority of jews voted for Obama. We are also told that jews favor a liberal agenda. If this is the case, I feel that American jews must explain their position, in that the majority of christians in America support Israel.

RCV| 7.12.10 @ 11:53PM

American jews don't owe you any explanation. Many Christians on the right support Israel simply as part of their apocalyptic vision of the Second Coming, but still look down on Judaism as somehow "incomplete". American Jews whom I know are liberal because they view that political philosophy as most consistent with their religious values and traditions.

wilson| 7.13.10 @ 12:09AM

American jews are liberal because they despise our christian values and liberalism is the way to undermine the american family unit.In israel their are no liberals they live by religious talmudic law and ban any symbols of christianity but In america they want religious diversity and ban push our legislators to enact laws baning symbols of jesus at christmas time and force mennorahs to be displayed next to every christmas tree btw (Hannakha is the least important holiday to jews an its only celebrated in america so as to water down christmas in fact it only became a holiday in 1954 as a way to fight back at our christian holy days. Jews started planned parenthood in america but jews themselves would NEVER have an abortion as it is considered an act against gods will for his chosen people. starting to see the pattern yet?

RCV| 7.13.10 @ 12:06PM

Obviously, you've never been to Israel, moron. They do not "ban any symbols of Christianity." Try visiting next Easter and walk down the Via Dolorossa in the steps of Christ behind a procession of crosses, or visit the Garden of Gethsemane.

forrest| 7.13.10 @ 2:41PM

GOOGLE "jews spitting on the cross being carried by christians on easter" these scum hate us christians, thats why jews owning 93 percent of all our media is high treason.google "jews burning new testaments in religious ceromonies" remember THAT when the adl and jewish organizations push legislature through to ban prayer in school and ban the displaying of manger scenes in OUR public places. google "dancing israelis 9-11"

RCV| 7.13.10 @ 4:23PM

Under our Constitution, manger scenes have no place in public school classrooms. That's what our churches and homes are for.

AMERICAN ME| 7.13.10 @ 5:27PM

but jews are the ones that forced americans to remove the manger scenes and all references to christianity from public spaces.... so if the "jewish problem is taken care of"in america well even get our right to show our love for jesus back, aside from all the other filth and problems that they have brought us. btw RVC we know from your other posts u r a JEW ,

RCV| 7.13.10 @ 5:54PM

Sorry, guy. I'm an Episcoplalian. Same as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, up to Gerald Ford and George HW Bush.

Buchanon knew| 7.13.10 @ 5:30PM

The american pilgrims should have beat them unmercifully! . I would have dragged them around by their filthy beards like dogs if They spit on the cross in my presence let alone spit on a felloe american

Zelda| 7.13.10 @ 2:02PM

Mayor "Napoleon" Bloomberg

Mayor Bloomberg and his backstabbing cronies must have a $tupendou$ rea$on which they can't reveal for wanting a sharia-hugging mosque near Ground Zero!
But the sharia "cobra" they're toying with can quickly grow its fangs and then say "Smile, you're on Candid Scimitar and will soon be buried in a scimitary, ha ha ha!" - proving that one good backstabbing deserves another!
God-haters and America-haters may not realize how high the collective temperature has now risen in the hearts of true American patriots - many of whom are now willing to die for America right here in America if they get pushed completely over the line!
Since the nation's headquarters for treason is the White House, readers can enjoy related material if they Google "Obama Supports Public Depravity" and also Google "Sandra Bernhard, Larry David, Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman" in addition to Googling "Obama...destined to become a black-slavery avenger."
And by all means visit Googleland and type in "Government-Approved Illegals" and "Un-Americans Fight Franklin Graham."
I hope Mayor Bloomberg, dressed as Napoleon, will thoroughly enjoy his mosquerade party!
PS - Interestingly, many conservative evangelicals have lately given up belief in a "pretribulation rapture" (the 180-year-old, fringe-British-invented, escapist-and-thus-subversive theological aberration behind the rapture bestsellers by Lindsey, LaHaye etc.) and now believe they will be on earth, standing against evil, during at least a portion of Antichrist's diabolical reign. Widely read Google articles like "Pretrib Rapture - Hidden Facts," "Pretrib Rapture Secrecy" and "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" have helped to bring about this "pretrib" mutiny.

A Kansas Patriot

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edification| 7.13.10 @ 2:45PM

The oft repeated line "god will bless those that bless israel ans curse those who curse israel was inserted into the new testament by a jew in 1949 google it. most christians believe it was always there. it wasnt it is a deliberate lie inserted by a jew in a reprinting.if you have a bible older than 1948 you will not find that jewish self serving lie

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.14.10 @ 1:35PM

Don't you folks just love anti-semitic liars as much as I do?
Screw you guys...until God ends you.

weddingdress| 7.12.11 @ 5:24AM

The american pilgrims should have beat them unmercifully! . I would have dragged them around by their filthy beards like dogs if They spit on the cross in my presence let alone spit on a felloe american

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