The American Spectator

Randolph Miller| 2.9.10 @ 10:47AM

So 2 of the 3 bills, he wasn't really voting against Israel. He was just voting for Americans to keep their own money. Why is Israel so pathetic it has to be on US wellfare?

axbucxdu| 2.9.10 @ 12:56PM

Randolph Miller wrote: "...Why is Israel so pathetic it has to be on US wellfare?"

Put simply, their losing demographics with respect to those of their surrounding adversaries.

Derek Leaberry| 2.9.10 @ 11:04AM

Although I would agree that Israel's choice of capital city is their own business and not America's or Tom Campbell's, I applaud Campbell's efforts to cut back on foreign aid to Israel and any other country getting it. I would encourage Campbell to extend his efforts to cut foreign aid by ending American funding for the World Bank and the IMF. Withdrawl of American troops from South Korea, Japan, Germany and the Balkans would be ideal as well.

axbucxdu| 2.9.10 @ 12:58PM

I agree. What's Campbell's problem again, Ms. Rubin?

Brian B| 2.9.10 @ 11:14AM

bob alou| 2.9.10 @ 11:55AM

Tom Campbell is worse than Barbara Boxer. It would be better to have that she-twit than that he-twit. At least with her there is no illusion that she is going to be anything other that a major leftist pain. Campbell will move the Republicans farther to the left than ineffectual Boxer can ever hope too.

Missy| 2.9.10 @ 3:25PM

Campbell's a creep from way back. No thanks.

Chuck DeVore is a breath of fresh air.

S.L. Toddard| 2.9.10 @ 3:54PM

Not exactly shocking that Jennifer Rubin bases her opinion of a candidate on whether or not they will be good for Israel (rather than America) - she does, after all, write for Commentary, where that sort of disloyalty is par for the course.

Red Phillips| 2.9.10 @ 5:19PM

I'm dying to know if Campbell's voting record was pro or anti Botswana. Or pro or anti Congo. Pro or anti Bulgaria? Anyone know?

I know inside the movement conservative bubble that Philip lives in the assertion that Campbell has an anti-Israel voting record is supposed to shock and offend. But announcing that an American Congressman has a voting record that is allegedly pro or anti a foreign country just serves to reinforce stereotypes.

Let's say we avoid those "passionate attachments" George Washington warned us about?

S.L. Toddard| 2.9.10 @ 6:44PM

There is nothing quite so unseemly as Mexican immigrants marching and brazenly waving Mexican flags on American streets, unless it is Rubin, Kristol, Krauthammer et al doing much the same for Israel in allegedly "conservative" "American" publications.

If one's first, last and only loyalty is not to America, then one is by definition *not* an American.

S.L. Toddard| 2.9.10 @ 6:58PM

I should revise that, I suppose: I am referring to specifically to national loyalties. For more local loyalties (region, state, family) to outrank national loyalty is of course right and proper.

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 7:17PM

Does this mean that Americans who joined the British and Canandian armed forces during the early years of WWII were not "American"? How about Americans who joined the British and French forces in WWI?

Were the pilots who flew for the Flying Tigers in China not "American"?

I'm sure glad you're not the Grand Arbiter of who is and is not an American. Actually, I'm glad no one is.

Duscany| 2.22.10 @ 6:54PM

America wasn't in the war until the end of 1941, so before that if someone wanted to fight the Nazis he had no other choice than to sign up with our allies already in the war. After Pearl Harbor, one would hope that every American would have the common decency to fight for America first.

icr| 2.23.10 @ 5:46AM

And the "Flying Tigers" were pseudo-mercenaries who were, in fact, sponsored by the US govt.

Red Phillips| 2.9.10 @ 10:04PM

I don't begrudge Jews being particularly concerned about Israel. It would find it odd and disloyal if they weren't. Nor do I begrudge Americans of Palestinian descent being particularly sympathetic toward Palestine. Again, I would find it odd and disloyal if they weren't. But the point is that how Jews feel about Israel or how Palestinians feel about Palestine should have nothing whatsoever to do with American policy. American policy should be based on what is good for America.

S.L. Toddard| 2.10.10 @ 7:29AM

It's one thing for recent immigrants to maintain an affection for their country of origin, or even for their descendants to do so. It is quite another for ones first *loyalty* to be to an alien state, for one to put that nation's welfare above America's, especially when many generations have passed since one's ancestors left there.

DICKERSON3870| 2.22.10 @ 4:27PM

RE: "she does, after all, write for Commentary, where that sort of disloyalty is par for the course." - S/L/ Toddard
MY QUESTION: Did you mean par for the 'coarse'?

DICKERSON3870| 2.22.10 @ 4:35PM

FROM BRADLEY BURSTON IN ISRAEL'S HAARETZ: "The essay [in Commentary Magazine] has the seamless, compellingly elegant, hyper-lucid, parallel universe logic of a hallucination – or a settlement rooted in the craw of the West Bank. Until I read it, it was difficult for me to comprehend the current runaway-freight recklessness of Israeli authorities and a certain segment of the hard right, bolstered by shady funding from abroad….
SOURCE - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147257.html
P.S. Commentary Magazine was a good publication until it was taken over by the 'Pod people' and all of their "fantasies came flailing about".

Red Phillips| 2.9.10 @ 4:40PM

Someone please explain to me how an American Congressman who represents an American district can have a voting record that is either pro or anti Israel. I thought the purpose of a US Congressman was to vote on laws that govern ... oh I don't know ... the US maybe.

Larry Schapiro| 3.7.10 @ 9:29PM

You are leaving out important pieces. First, Campbell is only anti-Israel. He was not seeking to lower the huge amount of aid to Egypt or being anti any other country. Couple that with his support for anti-American Muslim extremists and some anti-Semitic extremist whose big issue is the fake allegation that Israel is harvesting organs, there is a showing that Campbell will even support those who are opposed to America in order to act against Jews.

Nancy Corradini| 2.9.10 @ 4:57PM

I support Tom Campbell because he will always give an honest assessment and answer to difficult questions. He is ethical unlike most politicians.

Shannon| 2.9.10 @ 7:32PM

Nancy, give it up. Maybe you're a paid hack for Campbell and you have to say nice things about the RINO, but I'm not.

Campbell has always been a mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy moderate republican and NO WAY IN HELL are we going to elect him this year.

Yuck! Retire already, clown!

Nick| 2.9.10 @ 6:14PM

I see that SeigHeil.com has linked this blog post!

Just kidding guys, just a joke! Ha-ha!

But, seriously, who can defend Tom Cambell. He didn't vote for the impeachment of Bubba the pervert.

Also, why did Cambell introduce legislation to only cut Israel's aid, and not ALL foreign aid?

Last, but not least, there's this gem:
"[...] and that Jerusalem can be the capital of more than one nation."
You have to be a special kind of idiot to believe that.

Missy| 2.9.10 @ 7:33PM

I agree. Campbell is a dirtbag from way back.

Xenophon| 2.22.10 @ 10:14PM

So, Missy, are you just an automessaging system programmed to say "Campbell is a dirtbag from way back"?

Duscany| 2.22.10 @ 7:00PM

Campbell's job is to represent his district, not to endorse Likud's Greater Israel fantasies.

icr | 2.23.10 @ 5:49AM

In a less depressing world that would be true.

Gene Berkman| 2.23.10 @ 9:25PM

Actually, as a Congressman from Silicon Valley, Tom Campbell DID vote to impeach President Clinton. That is why he only runs for statewide offices now - the Bay Area district he represented opposed the impeachment.

meme| 2.22.10 @ 8:53PM

But, but Israel NEEDS our unconditional support. We need Israel.

Johngo| 2.23.10 @ 3:29AM

Israel has a great scheme going. Every few years Israel and its friends channel 30million dollars to US politicians. In return Israel gets 3 billion a year curtesy of those politicians! It's not for disaster, famine or aids but to help dispossess Palestinians, bomb Arab countries and subsidise Israeli backyard swimming pools. Somehow it helps America.

icr| 2.23.10 @ 6:13AM

Israel-Firster David Frum supports Campbell.
http://www.frumforum.com/defen.....ael-record

I don't think Ron Paul ever subjected himself to one of these anal probes about the depth of his commitment to a foreign country. And that's probably why the neocons and their zombie lackeys hate him.

It's certainly not because he wants to "End the Fed".

ronald| 2.23.10 @ 3:43PM

no support for israel=no 9-11
the biggest threat to national security are jews in this country that willingly sacrifice america for israeli interests. Tony blair stated war with iraq was first and foremost for israeli long term security under questioning last month. GOT THAT!! thats 6000 dead americans and 20000 amputees because jewish interests in america pressured bush with the help of a compliant jewish media to invade iraq. now they are doing it with iran. 60 years ago in europe the germans turned on the same people who betrayed them in ww1 for their own interests, theres a reason the first thing germany did to take back their country was ban these disloyal people from all media and government positions they had controlled

Trevor M.| 2.24.10 @ 4:53PM

S. Korea and Israel have robust auto and hi-tech industries which directly compete with our own, putting Americans out of work. Taxing American workers to pay for that is ridiculous. It is possible to be pro-Israel without burning $3 billion on boondoggles.