AIPAC: The Bibi Solution
Then Bibi finally arrived. He was welcomed like a conquering hero and began to speak. He soon was getting standing ovation after standing ovation for his impassioned and perfectly executed delivery, his love of Israel and America. He was a master, of the AIPAC audience at least, and probably many others. Something was becoming abundantly clear.
If only… if only… Bibi would run for president as a Republican, all the Jews would join that party and vote for him. (Or most of them anyway.) That would settle that question, at least for now. And it would be great for the USA too. It would solve the Republicans’ problem of mediocre candidates.
Forget Romney, Santorum, and Newt. Goodbye pining for Mitch Daniels, Sarah Palin, or Chris Christie. Bibi’s a better speaker than any of them by a lot — and vastly more experienced. Remember his talk in front of Congress last May? They were ready to elect him president right there. On top of that his father’s a famous historian and his brother was a military hero. He is the one to beat Obama. Head-to-head against the president he’d probably clean his clock — and the two guys evidently hate each other already. So why not?
And big deal that Obama went to Harvard. Bibi went to MIT. We all know that’s harder.
Roger, it’s cruel to tempt and tease like that. If only. . .
I was painting my house yesterday listening to Rush, The news came on and I hear Bibi’s voice. I thought the exact same thing as the headline suggested. Now that is a President. His voice makes a woman swoon. You rarely hear a Gregory Peck like voice in the emasculated males of today. VDH has remarked as much in recent articles.
He is a real statesman. I often watch the documentary on the Raid on Entebbe just to see pictures of his beautiful brother. A real man who like Bibi would die and did die for his country.
I’m not Jewish, but Bibi and the story of his brave brother compel me to want to visit Israel.
The song of Yoni a must for all to hear. Have no idea what it means but it is beautiful.
Bibi a real man for President.
http://www.yoni.org.il/
Mac, what is the name of the documentary about the raid on Entebbe? I have seen a movie on it, starring that super hero, Charles Bronson, but I have never seen the documentary. Thanks.
It is Operation Thunderbolt. I just watched it with my 15 year old daughter. She also loved the Path to 911.
Important that these kids know what evil exits among them.
I am presently reading the novel Vengeance by Canada’s best Conservative writer George Jonas, based on the Mossad
operation to eliminate the Munich Terrorists.
Thoroughly enjoying it.
How oh how can I get a copy of The Path to 9/11??? I thought the company that owns it refuses to let it be sold (because of Hillary and Bill Clinton.)
If a low life Kenyan-Indonesian Muzzie can cheat his way into the White House while not even being able to qualify for a dog catcher position, Why can’t a real President with honorable character like Bibi?
Please take him. Actually, it’s interesting how much Bibi has in common with Newt, down to the two divorces and the stewardess wife. He’s a good supply-side fiscal conservative (I think), but otherwise the Right here in Israel can’t stand him; he appears to have no core left.
Maybe he can return to being Treasury Minister or UN / US Rep. THAT he was good at.
Regarding American Jewry, I’m not so sure AIPAC really represents them. Ever since we here in Israel confused the issue by recognizing the PLO, American Jews haven’t know what to think.
American Jews keep voting Dem so “thinking” does not appear a big factor. I lose sympathy for folks who continually vote against their own self-interest.
Careful there. That gets dangerously close to “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” territory.
If only I could attach the picture I have of Bibi when he was young, in uniform with his weapon at the ready and on the other side that silly Barry with a large afro and a cigarette in his hand. It was the poster for who would you trust your country with? Barry looks like a glad handing twerp and Bibi looks like, well, just drop him off at my house, OK?
Bibi for President! I’m already working on the necessary birth certificate.
Roger, I think you’re on to something here. If we could try to waive the natural born citizenry clause for Ah-nuld, we could do the same for Bibi…it’d be a cakewalk after that and we’d all feel better, too.
Hear, hear…
and your keyboard to God’s ear, Roger.
The great cluster bomb in the Constitution is the Fourteenth Amendment. This is the source of separation of church and state, school integration, etc. It opens with, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Surely, a clever lawyer can get the Supreme Court to agree that this cancels Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5 (“No Person except a natural born citizen…”) and makes any naturalized citizen eligible to be President. Such a ruling is certainly in the tradition of continually extended right to new classes of people.
So, what you need is a fast-track naturalization process for Bibi.
Let’s see……We can start by falsifying a birth certificate in Hawaii and then…
He would be Obama’s nightmare.
Actually, he’s probably already Obama’s nightmare.
“… his father’s a famous historian and his brother was military hero”.
Actually, Bibi is also a military hero: “After graduating from high school in 1967, Netanyahu returned to Israel to enlist in the IDF. He trained as a combat soldier and became a team leader in an elite special forces unit of the IDF, Sayeret Matkal. He was involved in many missions, including the rescue of the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in May 1972 in which he was wounded by friendly fire.[11] He took part in numerous cross-border assault raids during the War of Attrition. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he fought in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, and then led a commando team deep into Syrian territory. “ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu).
I suspect that the young BHO could not have lasted through a day of Bibi’s military training w/o fainting, much less served in combat (in any capacity).
” I suspect that the young BHO could not have lasted through a day of Bibi’s military training … ”
He never would have made it past the psych profile.
I should have wrote that I doubt BHO would have cut it as “job-nik”.
What?!?! … You expect ME to fuel those tanks?!?!
There are a pair of photos usually distributed together of Obama and Netanyahu in their respective early 20s. Obama is lounging around in his best “ghetto cool” pose, cigarette in hand. Netanyahu is shown in full battle gear.
If one puts their two CVs side by side, it’s clear who is better qualified to be “Leader of the Free World”. One was a community organizer, activist lawyer, state senator and US senator of no distinction, then President. The other was a military commando, MIT trained business consultant, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Prime Minister. Obama’s importance only stems from the power of the Office he holds.
A Psychopath from Kenya masquerading as a President found a Christian Monk’s frock which had been left out in the sun to dry. He put it on and spoke to his countrymen. All hailed his Christianity, both men and women, and he was a proud Psychopath from Kenya that day. In his delight he lifted up his voice and brayed ‘Allah Be Praised!” and then everyone knew him for what he really was.
Thank you! Someone else recognizes the nature of the pathology underlying Obama’s behavior patterns.
Guess what? When one can (almost) smell half of world Jewry going up in smoke it kind of gives most (sane) people perspective, even otherwise very liberal Jews.
They also (rightly)intuit, if it can happen to fellow Jews in Israel, they too may very well be in danger-and they will!!
And another thing……..while Obama & his groupies flaunt the so called smarts of their Harvard POTUS, Bibi boasts MIT creds.Yes, he does.
NOW, color me a tad prejudice, but MIT beats ‘the other school in Cambridge’ hands down! How do I know this? Well, my MIT educated son knows the score. He cross registered at Harvard for some of his humanities courses. (they have a receivership agreement)Why? Because he desperately needed some nap time! Yup. In order to take a break from the rigors of (seemingly) impossible problem sets, my son went to Harvard to rest his weary brain.(garnering A’s in the process while napping at Harvard. Hysterical…..)
My point being-I offer up Bibi’s smarts against Obama’s so called smarts ANY time, ANY place.
Come on, Mr. Simon. Let’s be real here. There are several MILLION (tens of millions even) Americans who would make a better president than the current piece of garbage residing at the White House. (And, YES, that includes the entire Republican field of candidates as mangy as some of them might be.) No need to change the Constitution to allow an Israeli citizen to run, much as I like Netanyahu.
Other than Joe Biden is there anyone in this country who is legally qualified to be president less capable than Obama? It’s a rather low bar Obama has set. Maybe Nancy Pelosi but even that is atough call.
Well, I’m disqualifying anyone who voted for President Petulant in 2008. That knocks out a frighteningly large number of people.
Roger: AIPAC is misspelled twice in the second paragraph.
Fixed. Thanks. Typing late.
Currently,Bibi,Harper and Mrs Gillard from Australia are the only leaders of the “Free World”.
The kenyan indonesian elected one lacks all qualities to qualify for even an average polititian.
I have some hope left for Mr Cameron despite his stupid involvement in lybia ….
Are you really sure about Gillard?
Ditto D Day:
“Are you really sure about Gillard?”
For anyone in doubt of the Aussie PMs left-wing loony credentials just check out Tim Blair’s site.http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/
She’s as bad as any Demorat on policy though maybe not quite as corrupt.
Hearing Bibi speak makes this old Jew so very proud!
Sir, It makes a lot of us TRUE Christians love him more also,.. I speak of Mr. Netanyahu….We are as concerned about Israel as you are…G-d bless and keep that beloved man safe and healthy for a long time….This Putrid disaster we have now just might open a lot of eyes, among them, the American Jewish, and the Christian [in name only]…CINO sounds OK…lol…By the way they should not be referred as Christian, because the proper word is Gentile….
PJM, why can’t we forward your article’s ??
You can. Just click on the button that says “send” at the bottom.
My family and I have long been admirers of Mr. Netanyahu and he would be a very good American president. Am always delighted when he is in our country, his strength is reassuring. Can we arrange a trade?
It seems you really dislike Israel. You would wish OBAMA on Israel?
While your trading arrangements will definitely help us, The U.S of A, it will doom Israel. It’s not your intent, is it?
Not at all, I trust the people of Israel to return The Emperor to private life at their earliest opportunity.
American Presidents from Nixon on have decimated the Nation’s currency, economy and security. Anyone with half a Brain and full spine intact would be better than the crop of Presidents elected since 1968.
We have elected corrupt, inept, fascist, socialist, ignorant and weak leadership that failed the nation in every way imaginable. US foreign policy is 50 years of abject failure, the US Dollar has been sold off to fund Saudi Petro Dollars, the infrastructure is slowly crumbling, All topped by 50 years of betraying friends and rewarding enemies.
Is it any surprise real leadership is appealing.
“American Presidents from Nixon on have decimated the Nation’s currency, economy and security.”
Surely there’s at least ONE exception to that generalization! What was his name again? He was an actor earlier in life, then a governor of California. Irish guy, I think. Had a name like “Raygun”. Darn, what WAS his name….
Except for a disturbing tendency to rely on one of the many available gods for personal tips on what to do next.
He actually believed that someone had created the universe 6000 years ago, and now spent its time trying to help him out.
And wasn’t his wife a astrology fan?
I’ll take an astrology fan over what we have now.
I listened to Bibi’s speech last night on JLTV. Very impressive to say the least. And as to why we don’t have that type of leadership here is a paraphrase of the bard; “the fault is not in the stars but in ourselves”.
They say your world view is shaped in your 20′s.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u24Kh7kA8_c/TdpUoUKOG2I/AAAAAAAACPo/0hPL97RECB8/s1600/Young+Obama+Young+Bibi.jpg
I wish Bibi was our our current President.
That is exactly what I was thinking while watching Bibi.. how pathetic and shallow our politicians are… and ignorant.. if only we had one like Bibi..
You know the 18-45 demographic won’t be leaving Obama.
No, they’ll do just what you and David Horowitz did as younger men: pursue social fantasies to the destruction of our country.
Though age may bring these pseudo-intellectuals grudgingly around, the demographics have us beat.
Someday, Roger, I’d like to see real apologies from the 60s and 70s crowd that brought down my country, then who,in elderliness swept up the prodigal son’s rewards. Your optimism is unfounded.
Yes, but the problem of his foreign birth may be a problem. Can we hide from the ever intrepid media that although Benjamin Netanyahu lived in Pennsylvania for a time and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that he was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to Israeli parents?
Why not? Obama seems to have hidden his history pretty darned well….
A funny picture I saved years ago shows Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta meeting.
Obama is pictured as this tiny little man standing on a Roosevelt’s knee.
The caption reads:
Roosevelt: It appears to be a little man and he is sure doing a lot of talking, I think he’s giving us Military advice
Churchill: Why don’t you just roll up a newspaper and swat the little pest.
I laugh when I see Obama the preppy third world wannabe and poseur sitting next to Bibi. The faculty lounge activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual giant.
If O were really smart, he would move heaven and earth to avoid ever being seen in the same frame with Netanyahu. Could there be anything more starkly revelatory of his gross inadequacies??
Sorry folks, he’s ours!
Maybe he could fix our economy. Israel has 5.5% unemployment and 3% GDP growth rate while sustaining a huge military budget, universal health care, subsidized higher education, and massive investment in infrastructure. Not to mention the most innovative agricultural, water, environmental, and energy systems anywhere.
Unfortunately, that’s a wine that doesn’t travel well. The U.S. doesn’t have a country that it can run a large trade surplus with. What we need is a government that lives within its means and is out of the way.
Not inspired by any of the Republican candidates but I will have to vote for one anyway. Where are the good American leaders? Would ask where the great American leaders are but I don’t think there are any. Can’t see Zero not getting re-elected, oh brother!
Netanyahu could never get the GOP nomination. He’s too extreme and he’d scare the moderates who, as we all know, are the key to any election. The only way to win is to nominate people who don’t believe what you believe and then hope they’ll govern against the wishes of those they think elected them – the moderates. Of course that doesn’t happen as they “need” the votes of moderates while the votes of Conservatives are without value.
He’d make a great GOP candidate because he’d fit right in with 3 of the 4 current candidates who apparently can’t wait to start a global holy war and invade Iran because Israel wants them to.
As the leader of a free, Jewish state, Bibi is not about to go down in History as the Israeli PM who presided over the Second Holocaust without doing everything in his power to prevent it. I’m constantly amazed when otherwise smart people argue, “Well, the Soviets had nukes, right?” The thing that made Mutually Assured Destruction work was, regardless their hatred for us, the Soviets loved their OWN lives, and cherished their dachas along the Black and Caspian Seas. As long as we didn’t do anything stupid with OUR nukes, neither would they. Pace Gen. Dempsey, Iran is NOT a rational player. The mullahs believe the fastest way to usher in the return of the Mahdi is to have an apocalyptic exchange with Israel. In a speech at Auschwitz in 2010, Bibi stated Israel’s becoming a nation again was a fulfillment of Ezekiel Chapter 37.
Check out http://www.joelrosenberg.com, and may God continue to bless the U.S.A, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the free State of Israel.
This Southern boy loves Bibi, Jews, and Israel. They are God’s surety for His promises. When I need uplifted, I like to read Jewish people of faith who seem to be the only sane people and have great insight into our sad human condition.
I’m sure Bibi wishes he were even half as popular in Israel as he is on this board.
Oh, He is. Very popular in Israel. And the only people that don’t like him are the once who would cheat, spend more then they have or want someone else to pay for them.
He is indeed popular, though he has plenty of critics. Lucky for him, when they speak (especially from the Left), he becomes more popular.
The day dream at the end of the article diverted attention from the major thrust of the post! Will American Jews continue to march in “1984″ zombie like fashion to drone of the totalitarian party? The “Rich” is a non-descript classification that changes daily, but Jews, JEWS!!! Are there parallels between Germany before the rise of Hitler, and the U.S. today? During my life time Jews have been the leading victims of hate crimes. This remained true even in the aftermath of 9/11! Pay attention to history.
Can we at least get to to speak at the Republican National Convention?
Methinks the contrast would be too much for the delegates. The fix is in – can’t let our ‘chopped liver’ look bland in any comparison. And Bibi would make any of our candidates look bad – especially Romney who exhibits all the passion of a paid whore.
And big deal that Obama went to Harvard. Bibi went to MIT. We all know that’s harder.
Yeah.
Two guys in their 20′s
If it weren’t so damn embarrassing as an American, I could get a real hoot out of that contrast. As it is, I hope nobody else across the world sees that.
What a disgrace – we’ve got Richard Pryor’s weed addicted son for POTUS.
Sonny Bono would have been more intimidating.
Too late. These pics are all over the NET.
So, I think I agree with you, my friend.
Now, you have me pining for a brucha convention.
During their one on one meeting yesterday when Netanyahu told Obama that Israel was a sovereign state & going to make its own security decisions, a defensive, apprehensive look came across Barack’s face…
“Oh no, is he going to go rogue again ?…As in last visit when he bluntly told me that returning to the ’67 borders was out of the question ?”
“The question is —….”
The real question is, “How existential an event will the Jews have to suffer to wake up from their sleepwalking?”
How really bad will it have to be?
To my way of thinking it will have to be very bad indeed.
And, Roger, as the song says…. “Just wishing and hoping….”
They might be showing some support for a speech. But problem for American Jews: They love Israel sure. But on all other issues they are to the left of Karl Marx. So they just can’t vote Republican. It’s impossible. It’s either Democrats or some other Communist 3rd party. It is never gonna be the Republicans. Never.
As one northern lady remarked as General Robert E. Lee rode past, and as I
myself remarked after seeing Rudy Julliani’s performance on 9-11, “I wish
he were ours.”
Jim Whittaker
Hemet, CA
Well said, but I’ll still stick with Grant and Sherman.
Yes. Bibi did graduate from an American high school. But he wasn’t present at his own graduation. He was back in Israel, fighting for his country’s survival.
In his AIPAC speech Obama claimed he, ” had Israels back “. I just wonder which one of his hands is holding the knife.
“In his AIPAC speech Obama claimed he, ” had Israels back “. I just wonder which one of his hands is holding the knife.”
In one of Joseph Wambaugh’s books, he has a sergeant telling his men to follow a particular policy at their roll call. He assures the cops that their Captain is behind them. A cynical cop mutters to an equally cynical buddy, “Yeah, I can feel him back there”, an obvious reference to a predatory homosexual sexually assaulting him from behind. THAT is how I see Obama having Israel’s back….
The trick is to find someone like Benjamin Netanyahu in the Republican Party, not to wish for things that cannot be. I’m sure there is one out there. Heck, I’m sure there are a lot of them out there. The first man to come to mind that is just like Netanyahu is Allan West. He’s got military experience, he gives a great speech, he’s brilliant, and he’s a conservative. And West not only loves Israel, but he despises the Palestinians. What’s not to love? We have such people out there. But the Republican elite must settle for a real conservative candidate, not an “Obama Light,” for this to happen.
as you call them, don’t want to win this one
I dunno, I think I’d rather have an American for our president.
Now, if we could just find an American politician that wasn’t a closet commie or a self-serving scumbag.
AP: Scientists abandon search for intelligent life on planet PJM.
Are these the same scientists that have come up with all the “data” on global cooling….errrr “warming” ..err “cooling again” ad infinitum?
Ideology driven science, isn’t that what Galileo and Copernicus fought against?
I listened to him speak and thought it would be great if he was our president, and he did not even use a teleprompter.
Wonderful article Roger. I spent 20 years in the military and retired over 30 years ago. I’m an olde phart now but as old, fat and out of shape as I am I would stand beside Bibi, armed and ready to fight for Israel. That is because he is a true leader and inspires people. Obama? All he does is sit around, picking his nose, passing gas and making obscene gestures thinking he’s a leader.
I neglected to mention, I am fortunate to have many JEWISH friends who ESCAPED from the USSR, in the 70′s, via Italy, to Texas then to California, aprroximately 100 of them in one group, doctors, lawyers and business owners all, who were simply tired of 12 to 15 hour days at their jobs, making the same money as any common laborer, with much more study involved, along with the usual sacrifices, and they just got tired of going nowhere with no future except for what the state had instore for them, immigrated here, went back to school and regained their status/profession. NOW AMERICANS ALL, DEVOTED CONSERVATIVE/CAPITALISTS who are well versed in the SCOURGE CALLED COMMUNISM,WHICH THEY ALL HATED, AS IT REWARDS ONLY THOSE AT THE VERY TOP! LENIN CALLED HIS FOLLOWERS “USEFULL IDIOTS”….THEY GOT HIM WHERE HE WANTED TO BE…AND ONLY HE WAS REWARDED, UNTIL HE DIED A MISERABLE DEATH, KNOWING FULL WELL WHAT HE HAD DONE TO THE PEOPLE….AND HE WAS EXCEEDINGLY REGRETFULL, BUT A BIT TOO LATE. LENIN HAD A JEWISH HERITAGE, WHICH WAS HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC.
(Lenin) died a miserable death, knowing full well what he had done to the people. And he was exceedingly regretful, but a bit too late. Lenin had a Jewish heritage, which was hidden from the public. [Capitalization amended to remove shouting.]
In what sense was Lenin’s death any more miserable than anyone else’s? Lenin had a stroke in 1922 and was sidelined from running the government as a result. He had additional strokes that further incapactitated him and he finally died in January 1924. I am not aware of anything in the literature to suggest his death was any worse than that of any other stroke victim.
Also, what is the source of your assertion that he was regretful about what he had done when he died? Again, I’ve seen nothing in the literature to suggest this, unless perhaps you are referring to his so-called “Testament”, which was essentially an expression of his thoughts on who should succeed him as leader. He expressed reservations about both Trotsky and Stalin – feeling both needed some controls to keep them from going in the wrong direction – but these never saw the light of day in time to help stop either man, Trotsky or Lenin’s eventual successor, Stalin. (It helped that Stalin’s wife was in Lenin’s secretariat and managed to snag the Testament for her husband before it fell into the wrong hands.) If you have any solid information that Lenin actually expressed regret over establishing communism in the Soviet Union, I would love to see it! Please cite your sources so that I can obtain the books….
As for Lenin’s alleged Jewish heritage, that has never been proven as far as I know. As I understand it, the allegation was that one of his grandparents was Jewish, although I don’t recall if it was one of his grandmothers or one of his grandfathers. That’s significant because Judaism is matriarchal. As I understand it, Lenin could only be Jewish by birth if his mother was Jewish and she could only be Jewish by birth if her mother were Jewish. So unless his mother was Jewish, Lenin himself was not Jewish by birth, although, of course, he might have converted to Judaism at some point. But as a longtime atheist, it seems unlikely he ever converted to Judaism.
And why would Lenin being Jewish be an issue anyway? Lots of the Bolshevik leaders in Lenin’s time – and afterwards – were Jewish in the sense of their birth, including Trotsky, Zinoviev and many others. But I have never heard of even one of them actually practicing Judaism. I don’t think any of them went to synagogue, had their sons bar-mitzvahed, honoured the Jewish holidays or whatever else is required to be considered an observant Jew. (I’m not Jewish so I’m not clear on all that is required to be considered a practicing Jew.)
The fundamental flaw of the Soviet Union was not the ethnic makeup of the top Bolsheviks, it was the nature of the horrific totalitarian system they put in place.
It took about 90-years but the Russian government has finally opened Lenin’s medical records.
He died of syphilis. That’s why his final attending physician was Russia’s national expert on the disease.
He actually never had any strokes at all. Rather, in its final phase syphilis destroyed his mind. This debilitation was passed off to the public as a stroke — as pure spin.
And such was the end for Napoleon and Churchill’s father.
And then there’s Adolf: we now know that he was jacked up on amphetamines all the way through the war. They were administered by Dr. Theodor Morell intravenously. They induced bizarre decision making so shocking that H. Himmler had SS chemists analyze what the doctor was using on Adolf. It was an evil brew of arsenic and uppers.
Why arsenic? It had, at that time — and in Germany — ONE sanctioned medical use: anti-syphilis!
You see, the good doctor was Germany’s national expert in syphilis — which is how these two ever got together. Adolf was worried about his equipment — and syphilis — and sought Dr. Morell out. It was love at first injection. You’ll see Dr. Morell hovering around Adolf in almost every ‘casual’ photo of the period. Every top Nazi tried to get rid of him — but Adolf never allowed his personal pusher to leave his side.
It was his drug addiction that caused Adolf to flip-flop-flip over and over all summer long in the summer of ’42.
To sleep Dr. Morell gave him dictator-downers. Hence, it was medically impossible to wake him June 6, 1944. ( It’s a shame they didn’t try: it would’ve killed him; think speedballs.)
So there you have it: the two worst regimes of the 20th Century were launched by functionally insane minds.
( Lenin went off the rails along time before his first ‘stroke.’ All of the mechanisms for state terror were fully established before Stalin took the helm. )
If Binyamin was our President we wouldn’t be in this mess. He is a rare leader who holds to his convictions and beliefs. So does Avigdor Lieberman. Never fails to amaze me how many Jews and even Israelis evince such hatred for one or both of these men. Not meaning to insult, but are these folk (contemporary “liberal” Jews with such views the offspring of those who were willing to “comply” w/the nazis and go to their deaths in gas chambers without a fight???)
Folks…its going to boil down to a “fight” between good and evil; right and wrong. Just is…that’s my hunch. Why? Because we didn’t have the b—s to stand up early on so now we will pay a much bloodier price. If Israel today didn’t have these men at the helm, it is likely that Israel’s very existence would be in question by now.
That’s why in so called “democracies” leadership matters.
There are men in the United States like Benjimin Netanyahu. We’ve got some of them too. I’ve heard them, seen them, even shaken their hand. Norman Schwarzkopf is a brilliant man and dynamite speaker. I heard him one night off the cuff talk about the world, and was blown away. Norman didn’t need a teleprompter. And like Bibi, he’s got a brass set.
But nobody in their right mind is going to subject their family to the kind of crap George Bush or Sarah Palin was subjected to.
Ever heard John Hofmeister, former Shell Oil Executive speak? I have no idea the man’s background, but every time he’s dragged before Congress, he makes the entire damn crowd appear illiterate (yeah, I know – half of them are). Why is someone like him not Energy Secretary, given the clout to set things straight?
We have plenty of brilliant people in this country. The problem is convincing them to run for Congress or President.
Netanyahu is a statesman. Remember those? Incredible speech last night. Ironic that he not only needs to keep Iran in check, but Obama as well.
After the 1905 Revolution in Russia, discussions took place about how to govern
that vast land.
In http://www.amazon.ca/Romanov-Diary-Autobiography-Duchess-George/dp/0938311093
whose first husband was Russian Nobility, that husband recommended Russia be like the US. A legislative branch, a judiciary branch, and a tsar that isn’t elected for the executive.
Frankly getting rid of an unwanted chief executive looks easier that way, than how the current system is set up.
Are we not missing another Obama setup ? Obama needs a crisis to trump up a reason to not be dumped in November. After all how could we possibly change administrations during a war and/or oil route being cut off ? Obama will do ANYTHING to get re elected even if it means letting Israel twist in the wind until the big O can come to the rescue. Netanyahu knows not to trust Obama. If only the American people knew as much.
Netanyahu would be a spectacular president for the USA just as Obama would be a fitting president following Hugo Chavez.
“Obama will do ANYTHING to get re elected even if it means letting Israel twist in the wind until the big O can come to the rescue.
What makes you think that Obama would rescue Israel? Personally, I think it’s pretty doubtful. The Left loathe Israel, despite any protestations they might make about only being anti-Zionist and not anti-Semitic. Letting one or more of the Muslim countries destroy Israel would suit the Left to a T. And if the Jews in America keep voting for Obama despite all that he has done and his apparent emnity to Israel, he doesn’t even have to defend Israel in order to count on Jewish votes.
I think he will do everything he can to discourage Israel from a pre-emptive strike – except for making a pre-emptive strike on Iran himself! – and quietly encourage Iran to attack Israel by doing nothing more than proposing more sanctions. After all, they haven’t worked so far so they won’t work now. Afterwards, when Israel is at least bloodied if not beaten, he’ll make some disappointed noises and renew his push for a Reset policy of engagement with the Muslim world.
Mr.Simon:
I’m betting that too many American-Jews will gravitate to their traditional status of being obedient lackeys to the Socialist-Democrat Party. I don’t care what their ages are, they’re still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt even though he died long ago. You suggest these Jews are intelligent people?
I disagree! Intelligenbt people don’t live on past laurels, they make it their business to be well-informed. Even a moron ought to be able to see what Obama & Co. is doing to our country!
I’m not relying on Jews to see the light, they have a self-destructive streak, they can’t make a decision to save themselves or their brethren here or in Israel. They applaud Netanyahu because he’s everything they fail to be.
I’m depending on Catholics and Protestants to quit Obama and more of them to vote Republican to save this nation. Unfortunately, Jews will still be sitting on their hands, they mean well, but they’re too esconced in habit-voting.
They shouldn’t make much of a difference if enough Christians vote Republican.
Everyone is two dimension and quickly drawn in your world Stan. I see you believe Jewish Israelis are the good Jews and Jewish Americans are the bad ones. You and the rest of the good Christian Americans will save us from the ignorance of the bad Jewish Americans and Christian African Americans. Who is your candidate for President Stan, Captain America.
He doesn’t generalize but discriminates by too many American-Jews.
As it is many American Jews don’t have any affinity for those Israelis who made it out of Europe and the Arab/Muslim ghettos.
Not even all their shouting to the heavens about human rights accords with some feeling for the plight of all those struggling for a secure and peaceful existence.
Some of those American Jews are very fussy about which human is accorded what rights and when. Usually when they’re in need of a warm fuzzy feeling among their fellow progressives.
you make a very good point, stan. most jews, myself included, are FDR democrats by legacy. all the way back jews voted the straight democratic ticket. still, today, the overwhelming majority support the democratic party.
even with this legacy i voted twice for republicans. for rudy guilliani who saved the city from an unprecedented crime wave during the dinkins administration and for john mccain as a vote against obama. obama, with his campaign of gospel theatre, stirred the pot of divisiveness and hatred of whites. all his associations were america-haters. the cult following that developed, and his peculiar insistence on claiming america is a moslem nation, eschewing its judeo-christian roots, was too disturbing to support his candidacy.
we respond to bibi, because unlike obama, although they are both blessed with mesmerizing voices, it is clear that bibi knows of what he speaks, believes in what he is saying, and responds with gravitas and specifically to the issues that confront israel and america as western democracies.
i suppose it is also because clearly bibi deeply loves israel. as americans, we miss that in our president. and we should.
And Bibi could always claim he was born in Hawaii. Hell, it’s working for “The One!”
A very factual history lesson for jews and non-jews: When Jan Karski , the polish resistance envoy succeeded to enter the Warsaw ghetto and to exit from it with photos he was brought after a very perilous trip to flee europe and to meet in july 1943 president F.D.Roosevelt; Karski asked FDR to bomb the deaths camps to stop the slaughter; FDR ‘s answer was :
” after the war will be won by the allies the criminals will be brought to justice “..
This answer was a cynical treacherous avoidance to help; British bombers flew several time right over Auschwitz but dropped their bombs 4 km away on Monowitz industrial labour camps.
BHO has adopted exactly the same cynical treacherous posture as FDR:1) After the sanctions will have changed the iranian stance then the negociations will begin then we shall surely succeed to bring the iranians to the logical conclusion to surrender their nuclear toys.
2)If in the meantime iran strikes Israel with a nuclear holocaust then BHO will slinger his gun to bring the culprits to justice.
What else do american jews needs to understand ? here it’s a matter of life or death, a question of historical fate, not a matter of liberal vs. conservative values.
All true and important. Fortunately, Bibi will not wait for American Jews to pressure Obama to pressure the EU to pressure Iran to ‘negotiate’ over its nuclear program.
You and I could go on an on about the perfidy of FDR and Jewry.
The USAAF and RAF did not have the technical capacity to target the death camps. Post-war evidence is damning: we couldn’t hardly hit a city.
BTW, the request was normally for rail destruction. The US Army already knew that that would have to be repeated every single night.
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No, the ultimate crime of FDR was to sit on his hands and not permit Jewish flight from persecution when it would’ve been possible.
His State Department did everything in its power to stop Jewish flight — right along with the British.
And when presented with first person testimony WRT Soviet atrocities — he wouldn’t hear of it.
Since the end of the Cold War / WWIII the Russians have exposed an astounding array of American traitors posted to positions of authority in the FDR government. At Yalta, FDR sat with traitors at each hand!
That American Jews vote Democrat based upon FDR’s record — is a fright.
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In the 19th Century the Republicans ( Protestants ) came to utterly dominate the national scene. ( Cleveland was the exception. )
The urban underclass was almost entirely composed of Catholics and Jews. ( Italians, Irish, Poles, et. al. ) They got off the boat in New York, Boston, etc. and became grist for the Democrat urban political machine.
I believe that this is where and when the alignment started. With enough immigration, the outs became the ins.
I believe that todays Democrats hope for the same displacement on a national scale.
The question is: can the Democrat Party hang on to any piece of its original founding core?
Where do you go when your only remaining party plank is redistributionism?
And the currency has to be hyper-inflated to maintain the status quo?
( Hyper-inflation = money printing in all of its guises. Just what percentage that comes to is another matter entirely. You can hyper-inflate at a 8% per annum tempo – or go the full monty – and party like it’s 1923. When prices are moving due to money printing then it’s hyper-inflation: 1%, 6%, 15%, 80%, 8,000% it’s the exact same process. Government budgets are being met by money printing. Period. )
( Inflation = money creation by way of the animal spirits of capitalism — and the commercial/retail lending process. No matter what the tempo it remains pure inflation. What’s driving it is expansive bank lending and the creation of additional leverage instruments that cause the price of assets sold on credit terms to pull away. During inflation real estate prices, so tied to credit availability, surge ahead. )
In contrast, real estate prices absolutely stink during hyper-inflation. Credit dries up. Real estate must now sell with no mortgage attached at all. Leverage goes to zero. Rents get hammered. Business contracts like mad in a sea of cash — which is losing value in a hyperbolic manner in the FINAL stage of the currency.
I would rethink the conclusions here. American Jews from the ’30′s on have beenon the liberal Dem plantation and very few times(IKE was one) did they stray. I fault them for being lemmings on this defense of Israel. Bibi has the right ideas and would make a fine…American Prez and frankly all the Pubs except Paul would defend Israel better than Obama. Will Jews think liberalism first and reward this guy who has tanked our economy, our energy systems, our foreign policy or will they wake up and not reward this CIC with rewarding bad behavior in his Presidency??? That is the real question.
Alas, the law of the land specifies that Bibi may not run for POTUS because he wasn’t born here, and I suspect Israel can’t spare him just now anyway. But I hope and pray that he has enough influence with American Jewry to get them to turn away from the destructive philosophy practiced by the likes of Barack Obama and his cabal of Alinskyite enablers. It’s time for Jews to realize what the Democrats have become – the worst kind of hypocrites for preaching values they routinely violate.
and it pains me to say, in my 79th year, that my congregation will vote for Obama all over again.
he can’t handle the truth, sad to say, and sad to see, and he won’t post this, either
You are so right, whoever you are. I have some Very Big Failings. One of them is that once in a while I go out to dinner with my friends and don’t sit by the computer, waiting to validate your insightful comments. But thanks for sharing.
Roger L Simon is the strongest voice on the truth about global warming. So your statement is false.
A Harvard Square if you see students with books, they attend MIT. The others attend Harvard. Old joke.
1. Bibi is cool!
2. Wishful thinking isn’t good for the soul.
1. Gas prices are up 13% since AIPAC jammed the additional sanctions through congress ( these have not worked per Bibi and Barak )
2. “By his own account, KSM’s(mastermind of 9-11) animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.”
3. Now Israel is attempting to draw us into the Iranian war…..
No f-ing way !
Ignoring the constitutional issues, I would *love* to see Bibi run. If nothing else, I’d love it for the fact it would make the conspiritards like Alex Jones blast off their rocker at the speed of light.
The standard critique, of course, would be that such a candidacy would worsen our relations with the Middle East. My response to that is: So what? They’re no good to begin with.
Irony can be quite ironic, as it is commonly said because: Judah, was only promised the Messiah(Gen. 49:10) didn’t except him when he came, and Joseph, who was actually given the name Israel(Gen. 48:16)broke the accompanying “Sabbaths sign” and forgot their name! So history finds Judah calling itself Israel and Israel’s women alone putting over it not only the “forbidden foreigner” of Deuteronomy 17:15, but also the actual “right” endtime “Anti-Christ”(marxism, as the “Beast” Islam is identified as not being destroyed until the Hebrew and Jew Savior returns called “Yahshua,” meaning the “Yahweh means salvation” in Hebrew. Yes read, women started man’s age and now are finishing it! I now ask you, if the “first” is last(Cain, who killed his brother Able) is to be last to be resurrected(Duality of physical and spiritual), why should women be left off the hook so to speak when their sin actually brought death? Just saying… Yes, September 16, 2012, or the Feast of Trumpets(war), will answer such questions, I’m sure, watch!