You’ve provided the most lucid analysis of the state of the elections. You’re right it would be more practical for the Republicans to place Ron Paul as their nominee and that would really provide a contrast to Obama on foreign policy.

“Two mean-spirited men by nature, Bush and McCain have never liked each other much and this natural animosity was fanned by the vicious nomination fights of 2000, when Bush routed McCain with salvoes of slurs, including one about a black “love child” supposedly disfiguring the senator’s escutcheon.

Both are now in poor political shape, with contradictory strategies for rehabbing their fortunes.

The president is saddled with an approval rating bumping along in the 20s. Each day he is served another platter of contemptuous stories about “the worst presidency of modern times”, the lack of any enduring “legacy”, the approaching Democratic landslide that will put the Republicans in the wilderness for at least two terms.”

Well, that may be so, unless the Republicans do a U-turn in the next few months and go all out in support of RON PAUL, and nominate him their presidential candidate instead of McCain. Then Obama will have a tough nut to crack and it won’t be easy street for him up to November!

I understand why Palestinians lapse into this kind of talk, but that still doesn’t make it right, either factually or ethically.

The US is dominated by corporate capitalists, not Jews. The media system is corporate capitalist, not Jewish.

And, as a reminder, there is an extremely important difference between “Jewish” and “Zionist.” Not all Jews are Zionists. Neither Jewishness nor Zionism are valid biological categories.

Israel operates at the pleasure of the United States. Its insane theocratic criminality genrates the primary excuses for US threats and interventions in the region. Without the Israeli drama, these threats and interventions would otherwise be perceived by ordinary Americans as the evil oil-seeking international crimes they are, rather than as some noble attempt to defend the “miracle” of white people/”Judeo-Christianity.”

Two wrongs don’t make a right…