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		<title>By: hp</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22698</link>
		<dc:creator>hp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Lev</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22605</link>
		<dc:creator>Lev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I wonder about is how can someone day in and day out do the mental gymnastics necessary to "justify" in their minds the presence of the illegal Zionist state entirely on lands taken at the muzzle of a gun in 1948 (and after), blame the victims and feign astonishment that anyone would want to shoot rockets into "Israel". I have nothing against Jewish people, culture etc. I DO have a problem however with ethnic cleansing and states built with that as the foundation. Creating generations of tent-dwellers living in squalid refugee camps, and the Zionists can't seem to muster the common sense to realize why they're hated? For living on others' ancestral land? ? 

Let's imagine for a moment that a few million Chinese found some ancient scroll that purported to give them the right to own Uruguay. Armed with that "right" these Chinese millions sailed to Uruguay and at the muzzle of a gun forced the Uruguayans out of their homes, making them live in tent cities across the border in Argentina. Could anyone in their right mind say the Chinese would have a right to do this and that the Uruguayans would be in the wrong for fighting back by whatever means necessary? Alright then. Somebody explain that to AIPAC because it seems like if the Zionist military bombs a bunch of Palestinian kids, if you don't commend the "Israeli" Air Force for their marksmanship then you're ipso facto an anti-Semite.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I wonder about is how can someone day in and day out do the mental gymnastics necessary to &#8220;justify&#8221; in their minds the presence of the illegal Zionist state entirely on lands taken at the muzzle of a gun in 1948 (and after), blame the victims and feign astonishment that anyone would want to shoot rockets into &#8220;Israel&#8221;. I have nothing against Jewish people, culture etc. I DO have a problem however with ethnic cleansing and states built with that as the foundation. Creating generations of tent-dwellers living in squalid refugee camps, and the Zionists can&#8217;t seem to muster the common sense to realize why they&#8217;re hated? For living on others&#8217; ancestral land? ? </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s imagine for a moment that a few million Chinese found some ancient scroll that purported to give them the right to own Uruguay. Armed with that &#8220;right&#8221; these Chinese millions sailed to Uruguay and at the muzzle of a gun forced the Uruguayans out of their homes, making them live in tent cities across the border in Argentina. Could anyone in their right mind say the Chinese would have a right to do this and that the Uruguayans would be in the wrong for fighting back by whatever means necessary? Alright then. Somebody explain that to AIPAC because it seems like if the Zionist military bombs a bunch of Palestinian kids, if you don&#8217;t commend the &#8220;Israeli&#8221; Air Force for their marksmanship then you&#8217;re ipso facto an anti-Semite.</p>
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		<title>By: dan e</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22553</link>
		<dc:creator>dan e</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I fwdd Dr Bisharat's article to certain parties I thought might benefit by reading it. But with misgivings about a lot of things Dr. B more or less gratuitously included. So I inserted a cpl "cuibbles" of my own, enclosed in brackets/italicized so as to make clear the words are mine, not Dr B's.  So here I start with a quote, then add comment in brackets: "...Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder. [by calling it a "blunder" the writer reveals total misapprehension of political reality. This is how petit-bourgeois Palestinian Solidarity efforts wind up complicit in the very status quo they're supposedly  trying to resist. --dan] 

Farther down in the article I found another astoundingly appalling statement, so inserted bracketized comment again. Here's Dr B:
"If Sen. Obama's Philadelphia speech on race was a model of courage and nuance..."
 ( bold added by dan, to emphasize my total rejection of Dr Bisharat's foolish remark. How a writer can be so right-on articulate about Izzylandia &#38; Obama's criminal complicity, but the next second reveal such whitified ignorance, is amazing. Not quite "beyond me" however: plenty of experience observing anti-Black racist attitudes among Palestinian-American &#38; "Solidarity" activists...) 

Well, I've long admired Dr Bisharat's writing, also the activist careers of his mother &#38; his father. But it seems that a lot of "overachievers" spend all their time in contexts so far divorced from the clash of Classes in the US that they wind up without a clue to what's happening. Hence no matter how brilliantly they elucidate, their  understanding remains basically Tourist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I fwdd Dr Bisharat&#8217;s article to certain parties I thought might benefit by reading it. But with misgivings about a lot of things Dr. B more or less gratuitously included. So I inserted a cpl &#8220;cuibbles&#8221; of my own, enclosed in brackets/italicized so as to make clear the words are mine, not Dr B&#8217;s.  So here I start with a quote, then add comment in brackets: &#8220;&#8230;Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder. [by calling it a "blunder" the writer reveals total misapprehension of political reality. This is how petit-bourgeois Palestinian Solidarity efforts wind up complicit in the very status quo they're supposedly  trying to resist. --dan] </p>
<p>Farther down in the article I found another astoundingly appalling statement, so inserted bracketized comment again. Here&#8217;s Dr B:<br />
&#8220;If Sen. Obama&#8217;s Philadelphia speech on race was a model of courage and nuance&#8230;&#8221;<br />
 ( bold added by dan, to emphasize my total rejection of Dr Bisharat&#8217;s foolish remark. How a writer can be so right-on articulate about Izzylandia &amp; Obama&#8217;s criminal complicity, but the next second reveal such whitified ignorance, is amazing. Not quite &#8220;beyond me&#8221; however: plenty of experience observing anti-Black racist attitudes among Palestinian-American &amp; &#8220;Solidarity&#8221; activists&#8230;) </p>
<p>Well, I&#8217;ve long admired Dr Bisharat&#8217;s writing, also the activist careers of his mother &amp; his father. But it seems that a lot of &#8220;overachievers&#8221; spend all their time in contexts so far divorced from the clash of Classes in the US that they wind up without a clue to what&#8217;s happening. Hence no matter how brilliantly they elucidate, their  understanding remains basically Tourist.</p>
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		<title>By: S.M. Bawa</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22514</link>
		<dc:creator>S.M. Bawa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama has also offended few Muslim women in Detroit just because they were wearing hijabs. He didnt want to be photographed with them.
 Full story at :  http://worldmonitor.wordpress.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama has also offended few Muslim women in Detroit just because they were wearing hijabs. He didnt want to be photographed with them.<br />
 Full story at :  <a href="http://worldmonitor.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://worldmonitor.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: hp</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22499</link>
		<dc:creator>hp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Glis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Glis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can someone explain to me why we care about Israel?  They say we need them so that we have a standing in the middle east, but why do we give a shit about the middle east?  What good has Israel ever done for us?  They drag us into all this crap and what do they have?  Nothing!  It's a tiny country with no natural resources, and not even a real country at that.  We friggin created it after ww2 as more or less of a refugee camp for jews.  It's been over 50 years, let them figure it out.

We're at the point where we spend more money on military operations and donation to Israel than the oil we buy from there.  The money we've spent on the Iraq war alone could have made us COMPLETELY energy independant 3fold.  Why are we over there at all?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can someone explain to me why we care about Israel?  They say we need them so that we have a standing in the middle east, but why do we give a shit about the middle east?  What good has Israel ever done for us?  They drag us into all this crap and what do they have?  Nothing!  It&#8217;s a tiny country with no natural resources, and not even a real country at that.  We friggin created it after ww2 as more or less of a refugee camp for jews.  It&#8217;s been over 50 years, let them figure it out.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re at the point where we spend more money on military operations and donation to Israel than the oil we buy from there.  The money we&#8217;ve spent on the Iraq war alone could have made us COMPLETELY energy independant 3fold.  Why are we over there at all?</p>
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		<title>By: Max Shields</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22469</link>
		<dc:creator>Max Shields</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blame the system not the man? (I think that was Al Capone's defense.)

What the hell has Obama done or said that makes anybody, not thoroughly deluded, think that he's something other than a bought and paid for corporate/AIPAC protege?

At what time do you turn off your brain and nod to everything Obama says and does?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blame the system not the man? (I think that was Al Capone&#8217;s defense.)</p>
<p>What the hell has Obama done or said that makes anybody, not thoroughly deluded, think that he&#8217;s something other than a bought and paid for corporate/AIPAC protege?</p>
<p>At what time do you turn off your brain and nod to everything Obama says and does?</p>
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		<title>By: bozhidar balkas</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22465</link>
		<dc:creator>bozhidar balkas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>to me,  it is  doubtful  that  obama  did  not  get  approval   of  the state  dep't  which  runs  foreing affairs  for the  ruling  class  to declare  that  jerusalem  will  be  undivided  israeli  city.
declaration calls  for law  breaking.  it  cannot be called a " blunder"   but willful   violation  of   numerous  int'l  laws  and  panhuman rights if carried out.
as i have  said  before  in my posts  in DV,  picking  on  individuals  only  doesn't  elucidate  the  sit'n.
prezs  r,  to me,   mere  hired  guns/mouths.  it  is   invisible  hand  that  guides, i deduce,   all   US   policies.
and  basic  policies  in US  have  not changed  an  iota.
as  an aside (i'v  said  this  before  s'mwhere)  invasion/occupation of iraq  is  a  'brilliant'   success.  it's  the  end  of  history, silly u; ie, history  of  US  will no longer  be  recorded.  
why  wd  future  writers write it  for public?  it'l  be written  by the invisible hand  for the invisible hand  mainly. 
how do i  know this?  may i tell u?  well, i have a  devil  of my own.  since  god is lonely, he  loves to talk  to the devil; and my devil  blabs  it to me
grazias.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>to me,  it is  doubtful  that  obama  did  not  get  approval   of  the state  dep&#8217;t  which  runs  foreing affairs  for the  ruling  class  to declare  that  jerusalem  will  be  undivided  israeli  city.<br />
declaration calls  for law  breaking.  it  cannot be called a &#8221; blunder&#8221;   but willful   violation  of   numerous  int&#8217;l  laws  and  panhuman rights if carried out.<br />
as i have  said  before  in my posts  in DV,  picking  on  individuals  only  doesn&#8217;t  elucidate  the  sit&#8217;n.<br />
prezs  r,  to me,   mere  hired  guns/mouths.  it  is   invisible  hand  that  guides, i deduce,   all   US   policies.<br />
and  basic  policies  in US  have  not changed  an  iota.<br />
as  an aside (i&#8217;v  said  this  before  s&#8217;mwhere)  invasion/occupation of iraq  is  a  &#8216;brilliant&#8217;   success.  it&#8217;s  the  end  of  history, silly u; ie, history  of  US  will no longer  be  recorded.<br />
why  wd  future  writers write it  for public?  it&#8217;l  be written  by the invisible hand  for the invisible hand  mainly.<br />
how do i  know this?  may i tell u?  well, i have a  devil  of my own.  since  god is lonely, he  loves to talk  to the devil; and my devil  blabs  it to me<br />
grazias.</p>
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		<title>By: Giorgio</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22462</link>
		<dc:creator>Giorgio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OR seen from another angle,

THE  MAN  IS  THE  SYSTEM !!!

And whoever will next occupy the Oval Office, Obama or McCain, the first executive order coming out of there should be to decree a change in the  inscription on the dollat note 'In God we trust'  to  'In ISRAEL we TRUST'  and forget all about a God who  obviously does not reciprocate  in His trust.

Thus, surely, the privately owned Reserve Bank, Israel's  minions, would only be too glad to oblige !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OR seen from another angle,</p>
<p>THE  MAN  IS  THE  SYSTEM !!!</p>
<p>And whoever will next occupy the Oval Office, Obama or McCain, the first executive order coming out of there should be to decree a change in the  inscription on the dollat note &#8216;In God we trust&#8217;  to  &#8216;In ISRAEL we TRUST&#8217;  and forget all about a God who  obviously does not reciprocate  in His trust.</p>
<p>Thus, surely, the privately owned Reserve Bank, Israel&#8217;s  minions, would only be too glad to oblige !</p>
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		<title>By: Giorgio</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22457</link>
		<dc:creator>Giorgio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"Blame the system, not the man!"

THE  SYSTEM  IS  THE  MAN !!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Blame the system, not the man!&#8221;</p>
<p>THE  SYSTEM  IS  THE  MAN !!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Giorgio</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22456</link>
		<dc:creator>Giorgio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What really amazes me is to see American politicians delight, openly and for the world to see, prostrate on their knees polish the boots and arse-lick  AIPAC  and Israel's minions with such abandon and fervour!

This speaks volumes about their moral cowardice, unprincipled, unscrupulous and  shallowness of character.
Here is a tiny percentage of the US population calling the shots on a presidential election  with uncanny chutzpah!

Money indeed does TALK,  PERVERTS and keeps these servile goyims  under control in a vice-like grip on their shorts and curlies....  

Ron Paul IS the only outstanding exception and the only Ray of Hope!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What really amazes me is to see American politicians delight, openly and for the world to see, prostrate on their knees polish the boots and arse-lick  AIPAC  and Israel&#8217;s minions with such abandon and fervour!</p>
<p>This speaks volumes about their moral cowardice, unprincipled, unscrupulous and  shallowness of character.<br />
Here is a tiny percentage of the US population calling the shots on a presidential election  with uncanny chutzpah!</p>
<p>Money indeed does TALK,  PERVERTS and keeps these servile goyims  under control in a vice-like grip on their shorts and curlies&#8230;.  </p>
<p>Ron Paul IS the only outstanding exception and the only Ray of Hope!</p>
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		<title>By: DB</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22454</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AL,

"systems" are made by men. And changed by men. By men of character who have the strength of their convictions. Frequently, it requires one to rise above the immediate goals and consequences of one's actions to make a longer term difference. 

There are also those who say that he needs to play the system to get the presidency, then he can really make a difference. Bending principles for convenience is just hypocricy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AL,</p>
<p>&#8220;systems&#8221; are made by men. And changed by men. By men of character who have the strength of their convictions. Frequently, it requires one to rise above the immediate goals and consequences of one&#8217;s actions to make a longer term difference. </p>
<p>There are also those who say that he needs to play the system to get the presidency, then he can really make a difference. Bending principles for convenience is just hypocricy.</p>
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		<title>By: Hue Longer</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22453</link>
		<dc:creator>Hue Longer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Professor

Nice and tidy piece --I'll be directing folks to it</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Professor</p>
<p>Nice and tidy piece &#8211;I&#8217;ll be directing folks to it</p>
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		<title>By: Al</title>
		<link>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/obamas-missteps/#comment-22450</link>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No one can become the President of the USA, unless he kisses AIPAC's ass.

Blame the system, not the man!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one can become the President of the USA, unless he kisses AIPAC&#8217;s ass.</p>
<p>Blame the system, not the man!</p>
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