Eulogy before the Inevitability of Self-Destruction: The Decline and Death of Israel

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 2:18 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 02:18

"On Friday May 14, 1948 -- the day the British Mandate over Palestine expired -- the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was signed by members of the National Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, representing the Jewish community in the country and the Zionist movement abroad. It went into effect at midnight, Tel Aviv time.

Eliahu Epstein of The Jewish Agency sent a letter to President Truman, dated May 14, 1948 announcing the event. Truman responded with recognition of Israel by the United States only 11 minutes after the declaration in Tel Aviv."¹

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Thought on the diary?

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Thought on the diary?

A masterpiece

90 votes

Pretty good, it's a food for thought

44 votes

Terrible, execrable, atrocious. Shame on you.

410 votes

Anti-Semite!

587 votes

History lesson? You're a moron.

714 votes

No opinion/neutral

16 votes

Banhammer!

158 votes

Mr. Obama & Mrs. Clinton: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Israel

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Sunday May 11, 2008 · 7:31 AM PDT

2008/05/11 · 07:31

10 minutes with comedic cuts thrown in.

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Your thought on the video?

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Your thought on the video?

Good one. I agree with the message.

7 votes

Execrable - you're being antagonistic

12 votes

Criticism of Israel is anti-Semite!

11 votes

Tough luck, I don't care. Focus on electing a Democratic president regardless.

2 votes

I may not like the message, but that's the way it is in political pandering

9 votes

Demand autoban!

20 votes

Barack Obama betrays America by pledging allegiance to Israel

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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 4:00 AM PDT

2008/05/10 · 04:00

Dear Senator Obama,

You have pledged your support to Israel in solidarity, contrary to the Founding Fathers' advice against entangling alliances with foreign powers.

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Is Obama a traitor to the U.S. like Hillary for declaring iron-clad solidarity with Israel?

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Is Obama a traitor to the U.S. like Hillary for declaring iron-clad solidarity with Israel?

Yes

54 votes

No, you're nuts

250 votes

No, I support Israel 100% and you ARE a bad American. Get out of U.S.

24 votes

This is a shamefully unpatriotic diary. I cannot believe my ears.

3 votes

DKos is about electing Democratic president even if s/he support Israel 100%. GTFO

28 votes

I agree on U.S.'s staunch relations with Israel, but criticism of Obama is unwarranted

45 votes

No opinion

13 votes

Israel is our most important ally. You ARE an anti-Semite for condemning Israel.

34 votes

It's banhammer time!

20 votes

Protest e-letter to ABC News re: 4/16 "debate"

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Thursday April 17, 2008 · 4:50 AM PDT

2008/04/17 · 04:50

(ABC News web site imposes a 500 character limit. Send your comment/complaint to "ABC News: Network Programming Feedback")

The April 16 Democratic Presidential Candidate debate is indeed a travesty. I shall report the complaint to FCC for the conflict of interest and for engaging in irrelevant trivia that disregards the spirited, substantive and informative debate.

ABC News directors & producers and Walt Disney Company media executives have turned America into a laughingstock of the world.

[Because] George S. and Charlie Gibson clearly neglect the standard of broadcast journalism, this [failure] warrant the discipline & termination.

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Should ABC News (owned by Disney) be held accountable for its neglect and bias re: disastrously stupid

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Should ABC News (owned by Disney) be held accountable for its neglect and bias re: disastrously stupid

Yes, FCC should look into this matter if it cares about electoral integrity in tv debates

66 votes

No, ABC can do whatever it wants, even if it asks the most trivial & irrelevant questions

10 votes

No opinion

1 vote

Maybe, but free market and bias in style of electoral journalism dictate ABC's agenda

8 votes

Who cares? A poor debate won't affect the overall electoral process.

5 votes

Economic fascism creeps in: U.S. Treasury proposes expanding Fed's power to order SWAT to terrorize

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Saturday March 29, 2008 · 12:23 PM PDT

2008/03/29 · 12:23

...financial institutions.

Un-f*cking-believable. This is financial tyranny that contravene the Adam Smith concept of free market.

I noticed the omission of the mention of SWAT being used as a financial terror tactic in MSNBC, CNN and ABC News.

U.S. Treasury secretary -- who is a former Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO and current International Monetary Fund member of the board of governors -- Henry Paulson is another well-known major league asshole added to the list of traitors to the Republic for their part in damaging and wrecking the American economy.

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Should Treasury grant Federal Reserve more power to regulate U.S. financial system?

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Should Treasury grant Federal Reserve more power to regulate U.S. financial system?

Yes, it's a necessary compromise to alleviate the economic crisis

4 votes

No, it's a clear and present danger - abuse of power vested in Federal Reserve will only exacerbate the crisis

42 votes

No opinion

0 votes

This Economics 101 mumbo-jumbo is making me bleary eyed

5 votes

Economic/credit woe is all Bush Administration's fault! Democratic prez-elect to the rescue!

4 votes

Who cares? It doesn't concern me

0 votes

Why is this complex, insignificant economic topic discussed on DKos?

1 vote

Why America is a corpocracy - Mike Gravel berates YouTube for censorship

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Sunday March 16, 2008 · 5:13 AM PDT

2008/03/16 · 05:13

I am miffed that YouTube, owned by Google, decide who are the "real" contenders for U.S. president on You Choose 08 channel page.

Mike Gravel and Ron Paul are still in the race all the way to the party conventions in defiance -- and give the disenfranchised people of the dominating parties the real choice rather than being told to pick the status quo candidates.

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Should Mike Gravel be represented in "YouChoose 08" YouTube page?

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Should Mike Gravel be represented in "YouChoose 08" YouTube page?

Yes, as long as he runs the campaign

24 votes

No, he has no chance and should expect a dark horse treatment in exclusion

4 votes

No, he's a kook. Screw his long-shot campaign

5 votes

YouTube editors made the decision, it's a privately-owned media entity

7 votes

No opinion

2 votes

Who gives a crap about Mike?

10 votes

The Republican "Divide & Conquer" strategy to sabotage Democratic Party's bid for White House

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 2:57 PM PDT

2008/03/10 · 14:57

Apparently Rush Limbaugh effect worked.

What Rush said:

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Is the Rush Limbaugh effect perilous to the system of the American republic?

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Is the Rush Limbaugh effect perilous to the system of the American republic?

Yes, it's a bastard cousin to vote fraud

30 votes

No, this is a democracy

14 votes

I'm not worried, Obama can eke out the nomination win

7 votes

No opinion

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Why worry? It's a harmless stunt that has little or no impact on the outcome

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(Video) The moving tenacity of Mike Gravel in his lone fight to end the Vietnam War

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Sunday March 09, 2008 · 11:51 AM PDT

2008/03/09 · 11:51

Wow.

Rarely have I felt moved by the courage of the American politician facing the "Establishment" controlling the Congress and tell nothing but the truth in his quest to stop the protracted & pointlessly bloody Vietnam War by divulging the lengthy texts of the leaked "Pentagon Papers" into the Congressional record for permanent posterity, end the mandatory draft and bring home the troops.

Let the first short intro video speak for itself.

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Should Mike Gravel be commended for ending the draft as a one-man filibuster?

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Should Mike Gravel be commended for ending the draft as a one-man filibuster?

Yes, he's a hero. He should receive the 'belated' Profile in Courage award.

116 votes

No, who the hell is he?

2 votes

No, he's a fringe and a kook. At least the draft was removed.

4 votes

No, the draft should have stayed -- tens of thousands more people to fight War on Terror

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Yes, but my opinion of him is still negative

5 votes

No opinion

1 vote

Who cares? Focus on the current issues, not history lesson

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Why Ralph Nader is my alternative choice after Democratic Party establishment rejects Mike Gravel

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Sunday February 24, 2008 · 6:00 PM PST

2008/02/24 · 18:00

I regretted not registering in time to cast the vote for Gore/Lieberman as a politically apathetic albeit liberal-leaning young college-age person in 2000, but in retrospect, I did not. More on that later.

Ralph Nader was commonly denounced with regular vitriol by aghast and dejected members of the Democratic Party as "the spoiler" who cost Al Gore the presidency in the contested election in 2000. Blame it on U.S. Supreme Court and the corrupted voting process under the supervision of then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris while George's brother Jeb Bush was the governor of Florida.

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Is Ralph Nader a spoiler who should be urged to drop out for the sake of the two-way election?

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Is Ralph Nader a spoiler who should be urged to drop out for the sake of the two-way election?

Yes

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Why attack him? This is democracy, right?

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Not sure, wait and see

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No opinion

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The Fix Is In: Superdelegate loyalists will pick Clinton for nom that may cause DNC riot a la 1968

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 · 1:38 AM PST

2008/02/20 · 01:38

Reference: Obama is getting screwed by the delegate math

Reuters tv: Superdelegates could tip balance (YouTube, 2:44)

CNN: What does it mean Hillary's ready to rely on SuperDelegates? (YouTube, 4:11)

MSNBC Countdown Keith Olbermann: Hillary Clinton pushing for superdelegate strategy (YouTube, 6:23)

1968 Chicago police riot at Democratic National Convention (YouTube, 4 min)

Let's be clear that if Hillary Clinton is crowned with the nomination by the overwhelming majority vote of the superdelegates at Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado the last week of August, it will swing the moderates, hostile towards Hillary's "socialist agenda" (mandatory health care, economy micromanagement, etc) to cast the ballot for McCain (if chosen by RNC hacks), ensuring the win for McCain in fulfilling his quest to become the next "war president" eager to order the attack on Iran/Syria should Bush back out.

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If Hillary Clinton wins the DNC nomination despite Obama's substantial lead in delegates, would you accept the decision?

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If Hillary Clinton wins the DNC nomination despite Obama's substantial lead in delegates, would you accept the decision?

Yes, will vote Hillary to defeat the Republican presidential candidate -- no third Bush term!

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No, I will be mad as hell!

249 votes

Not sure, I'm on the fence

19 votes

No opinion

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