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Hillary Clinton pulled out of a Jewish-sponsored rally against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after it was announced that Sarah Palin would participate.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html

The Israeli lobby helped sink Hillary's ability to become the President of the U.S. Her choice to sign the 2002 war resolution was partially due to pressure

Former U.S. secretaries of state say they support talks with Iranfrom the I-lobby. We are well aware that this resolution was used as permission for the eventual invasion of Iraq base on a "pack of lies". And then her war mongering yes vote for the Kyl Lieberman Amendment last fall did not help her path to the White House. In fact it helped sink her chances.

The folks who will be protesting Iranian President Ahmadenjad's visit to the UN are zealots, warmongers and need to be backed down. People around the nation are sick and tired of the disproportionate amount of power and influence that the I-Lobby has. It is destructive and has only served to cause chaos and death and destruction in the middle east ENOUGH!

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1021344.html

these in from around the country: (scroll down, funny)

http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/09/america-speaks-out.html

I'm in Eugene now, getting ready to hit Portland, then Seattle.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127593
US Jews Ready for Iranian President

by Hillel Fendel

How many times have we heard John Bolton, Micheal Ledeen, Cheney, Reuel Marc Gerecht, James Woolsey and Israeli leaders repeat unsubstantiated claims about Iran? How many times has IAEA's head Mr. El Baradei asked for all sides to turn down the "inflammatory rhetoric"? Yet Aipac as well as other Jewish organizations continue to inflame the situation.

When will Israel sign the Non Proliferation Treaty? When will Israel state that they will not pre-emptlively strike Iran? I hear Israel threaten Iran far more than Iran threaten Israel.

Professor Juan Cole has directly interpreted the Iranian Presidents speeches when he has talked about Israel. In the MSM all we hear are the warmongers manipulative interpretations of Ahmadenajads words having to do with Israel.

http://www.juancole.com/2007/06/ahmadinejad-i-am-not-anti-semitic.html
They declined to go along with a resolution charging Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide, given his alleged call for Israel to be 'wiped off the face of the map.'

As most of my readers know, Ahmadinejad did not use that phrase in Persian. He quoted an old saying of Ayatollah Khomeini calling for 'this occupation regime over Jerusalem" to "vanish from the page of time.' Calling for a regime to vanish is not the same as calling for people to be killed. Ahmadinejad has not to my knowledge called for anyone to be killed.

Right @ 10:

JudyLou @ 6:

I coined a new name for Palin: Paleo. And from Dictionary.com, this:

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paleo-

prefix used in scientific combinations (mostly since c.1870), from Gk. palaio-, comb. form of palaios "old, ancient," from palai "long ago, far back," related to palin "again, backwards," tele- "far off, at a distance," from PIE base *kwel- "to turn, move about," also "far" (in space and time); see cycle.

She will only answer journalist questions who have been "vetted" by the McSame campaign.

Does Palin really believe that the Earth is 5,000 years old? Has anyone in the media asked her yet?

I know this is OT but it's very important. Here in Oregon Republican Gordon Smith continues to air ads against Jeff Merkely about serial rapists during what are traditionally family shows. As far as I've seen they don't air them during prime-time. They don't air them on any of the news channels. They only seem to air them during shows like "Jeopardy" and Wheel of Fortune." They even aired it during "Honey, I Shrank The Kids" on the Hallmark Channel at 10:00 in the morning on Sunday.

I called the stations that I've seen it on and complained but they said by law they had to air them whenever the Smith campaign asks them to air them. So I called the Smith campaign and after catching them in a couple of lies, I was told that I didn't like my kids seeing the ads, I "should turn off the TV."

The reason I'm posting this is to ask you kind folks here at C&L to please call the Smith campaign at (503) 210-2008 and tell them how despicable it is that they're targeting children with this ad.

Thanks.

Whoops sorry looks like Nader is running under and independent party ticket!

Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 3:

Demand that Ralph Nader and others be included in the debates!

Take action! Email the moderators of the upcoming presidential and VP debates and demand “The Debate We Need”

are you friggin nuts? I'm all for ideology but Nader is the REASON we have had 8 years of chaos. I know the arguments, i know Gore SHOULD have run a better campaign but the reality is with Nader out of the race in 2000 there is not a friggin tie! Gore wins in a walk. if we have states closer that nader votes again he will again be the problem.

All the "smart" money was SURE Kerry had bested the Chimp in ALL the '04 debates.

Guess what?

Murkins wanna feel SMARTER than their Preznint, apparently.

Matt @ 17:

...This is not a game. This is not a sport. This not entertainment to be used as a cynical ploy to increase ratings or the bottom line.

Your words matter. Your questions matter.
You have the unique ability to help us see past the distractions and focus on the task at hand. And the responsibility to do so.

Matt, while your passion and concern are admirable, this is called "pissin into the wind." You get all damp, and it don't change a fuuking thing...
But thanks for your sincere effort.

Kathleen @ 21:

Nomi Prins on Democracy Now addresses the bailouts.

she states that AIG, Bear Stearns etc were acting as "speculative investment banks/hedge funds.

Why bail out the "gamblers"

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/17/us_seizes_control_of_aig_with
" economy being sacrificed to bail out the gamblers"

Noni is brilliant and explains the economy in language that a peasant can understand. Obama should pick her up as an economic adviser. This woman is a wiz gal

Abbybwood @ 19:

Kathleen @ 9:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127593
US Jews Ready for Iranian President

by Hillel Fendel

How many times have we heard John Bolton, Micheal Ledeen, Cheney, Reuel Marc Gerecht, James Woolsey and Israeli leaders repeat unsubstantiated claims about Iran? How many times has IAEA's head Mr. El Baradei asked for all sides to turn down the "inflammatory rhetoric"? Yet Aipac as well as other Jewish organizations continue to inflame the situation.

When will Israel sign the Non Proliferation Treaty? When will Israel state that they will not pre-emptlively strike Iran? I hear Israel threaten Iran far more than Iran threaten Israel.

Professor Juan Cole has directly interpreted the Iranian Presidents speeches when he has talked about Israel. In the MSM all we hear are the warmongers manipulative interpretations of Ahmadenajads words having to do with Israel.

http://www.juancole.com/2007/06/ahmadinejad-i-am-not-anti-semitic.html
They declined to go along with a resolution charging Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide, given his alleged call for Israel to be 'wiped off the face of the map.'

As most of my readers know, Ahmadinejad did not use that phrase in Persian. He quoted an old saying of Ayatollah Khomeini calling for 'this occupation regime over Jerusalem" to "vanish from the page of time.' Calling for a regime to vanish is not the same as calling for people to be killed. Ahmadinejad has not to my knowledge called for anyone to be killed.

The reason Israel is called The STATE of Israel is because it is the 51st state of the United States and all of our foreign policy shots are being called from Tel Aviv.

Example? Here are the immediate paces Sarah Palin had to march through:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28559

I had read that article by Pat. I also read a couple of articles that basically said she was 'vetted" by Lieberman and other right wing radical Israeli firsters. I don't believe this strategy helps Israel at all. This issue is not going away

If a fundie's teenaged son asked if the dichotomous nature of anthropological perceptions was due to the bi-hemisphericity of our neurocognitive structures, would they wash his mouth out with soap?

Or if it's their teenaged daughter asking they'd break out a video cameral.

The ad that won Obama this election:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1799203760

Joe is making fun of it because.......

Lets socialize big oil for cheap gas.

Let's socialize health care like Canada.

The door is open.

w killed capitalism and opened the door to socialism.

Chavez is laughing today.

woody, tokin librul @ 20:

Matt @ 17:

...This is not a game. This is not a sport. This not entertainment to be used as a cynical ploy to increase ratings or the bottom line.

Your words matter. Your questions matter.
You have the unique ability to help us see past the distractions and focus on the task at hand. And the responsibility to do so.

Matt, while your passion and concern are admirable, this is called "pissin into the wind." You get all damp, and it don't change a fuuking thing...
But thanks for your sincere effort.

Yeah, don't be a chump who gives a damn and is willing to do something, be a cynic like the kwel kids

Sarah Palin on Israel: Frightening

The truth is, pretty much EVERY American politician on Israel is frightening. And the media: look at how they jumped all over Jimmy Carter for his statements on the apartheid treatment of the Palestinians...

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a Governor

And the latter was very limber

What with all the Pilate classes he was taking.