Hamas is Stalin. No wait, that was Saddam. Iran is Stalin. No, they’re Hitler, except when they’re Idi Amin. Or maybe Henny Youngman, it kind of depends what day. Take my prime minister, please.
France used to be Neville Chamberlain, but now that they have a conservative in charge France is the Pope, and it turns out the Pope is NOT Hitler at all but is actually a good guy, unlike that one chick from Big Brother, who is Cuba. (The country, not the Gooding, Jr., who is like totally cool.)
Canada, watch your back, when I say “bacon” I don’t mean from the back, I mean from the belly, which is where Fat Bastard keeps his babies, just like Hugo Chavez. China used to be Hugo Chavez until Wal-Mart figured out they make excellent cheap stuff if it doesn’t kill you first. They’re kind of like the Ottoman Empire also because they sell cheap furniture.
Japan. Um, Japan.
And let’s talk, Iceland. So icy and landy, they totally cheese me off. We should invade them because if Björk isn’t an existential threat, I don’t know what is. But back to Hamas, if I catch any more libruls talking about even fraking talking to them I am going to totally go nukular on their sorry librul butts.
I mean, look at this dude:
Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, Sen. John McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas — the very group that McCain has been relentlessly using to smear Sen. Barack Obama over the last several weeks.
Rubin has written an op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post about his exchange with McCain, and The Huffington Post has obtained exclusive video. Here’s the key excerpt:
RUBIN: “Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?”
McCAIN: “They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it’s a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.”
Typical Demon-rat. Our super secret blogger plan, code-named Operation Confuse-a-Cat, has worked to perfection. By voting for that guy in the primaries, we are going to clean his clock in November!
Meanwhile, Time magazine reports the White House opposes the 3.9% military pay raise passed by the Democratic Congress. Last year, the White House opposed the 3.5% military pay raise passed by the Democratic Congress. Because Bush doesn’t want to spend that much money on the troops. (Last I heard, the official inflation rate is 4.5%, although we all know the real inflation rate is much higher.)
Congrats because we’re going to be spending time on this and shit LIKE this until the election is over.
For every stupid, idiotic, bullshit GOP attack like this, we’ll be able to point to them doing the thing we’re alleged to have done.
Bush’s own team thinks negotiating with Hamas is ok. Go figure. I can’t wait to hear the righties here spin this. Most likely they’ll just do what they always do, change the subject.
McCain in the interview is right. The fucking government of the Palestinian people is Hamas. If you want peace between Israel and Palestinians (which the Bush administation clearly does not), you have to talk to their elected representatives. Ain’t no way around it.
Not too long ago, we (the U.S.) were the ones who undermined Fatah in the hopes that Palestinians would vote them out of office. Well, we got what we asked for, then pretended that we had nothing to do wih it because we somehow didn’t realize that their only other powerful political movement was Hamas. Duh. Are these Bush guys stupid or what?
Now, of course, instead of brokering peace between Israel and Hamas, we are supporting Israel’s policy of collective punishment against Palestinian civilians (which is a war crime).
Putting a modern-day Republican in charge of foreign policy is like giving an automatic weapon to a two-year old. Sooner or later (probably sooner), somebody’s gonna get hurt, and it won’t be the one who deserves it.
Putting a modern-day Republican in charge of foreign policy is like giving an automatic weapon to a two-year old.
Unfortunately, that’s not quite right. The two-year-old does not yet know that he shouldn’t point the gun at his own head.
What utter crap!
This sort of arguement about whether Barack or Obama would talk with Hamas or Iran or Canada is inane.
Obam is an intelligent rational adult with good advisers.
McCain is an intelligent rational adult with good advisers.
Bith, likley McCain more so, have a reasonable chance of beign caught by a gotcha remark during a campaign. … I doubt Johny wanted to promise us 100 years of Iraq war or that Barack thinks the Prexy ought to be getting on the phine with thugs in Pakistan. BUT in the game we are playing, such comments get magnified, leted, reshaped, endlessly.
The result, whoever is elected, can be to fuck up their work.
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I would MUCH rather see a real debate on the mideast basedd on the well defined hard issues. E.G.
What is US policy going to be on dominance in the seaways of the mideast?
Where so we stand on democratic reforms in Egypt, SA?
Every effin candidate knows that the land availabhle to make a Palestine SAtate is not able to su8pport the current population. IF Israel is to continue to exist, what other solutions are there?
@6: Seattle Jew – You miss the point
This whole talk to Iran thing is crap – they are government that has supported terrorism – but we still need to talk to them. On the other hand – the Hamas thing is different. while they were elected – they have subverted the electoral process and negoatiating with them for peace is futile since they won’t even recognize Israel. I agree we should not be meeting with people who do not even consider peace an option – a truce is not peace.
the real underlying wrong-headed assumption here by Seattle Jew is that the republicans (bush and McCain) are trying to make political hay over a false argument – that Hamas supports Obama. Hamas has NEVER said that – it comes from a right wing “journalist” who has a person from Hamas (probably a BS source but not a spokeperson) who has said that Hamas supports: Clinton, Obama, Reid, Pelosi…pretty much every democrat (inlcuding Lieberfool). The bottom line is that it is politics and it is not credible – that is what SJ is truly missing.
The other bottom line is that McCain is attacking Obama for things McCain also said – so this is hypocrisy again.
And McCain is neither intelligent – nor does he have “intelligent” advisors – unless you consider the neocons who got us into Iraq and are currently “advising” McSame, “intelligent”.
And SJ – what is holding up the two state peace solution is not the “land available” it is the “right of return” and the issue of Jerusalem and the intransigence of Hamas (to recognize Israel’s right to exsit). Get it straight.
Just a little history about McCain from Clipmarks.com:
MLF Commentary:
McCain, while a Viet Nam vet, is really no hero. He was, by all accounts, a lousy sailor. He disdains authority, he has a hair trigger that some blame on his years of incarceration in Viet Nam. I believe that it was his anger that got him through the nightmare of being a POW. He hated them and was angry enough to “show them”.
These qualities served him well in that situation. These same qualities have no business sitting in the White House. A quick and violent temper is not how you lead. Patience, understanding and knowledge of the situation is. This man is a time bomb. I am willing to bet that we get to see his anger in the first 20 minutes of the first debate with Obama.
I can’t wait.
Liberals. have you ever thought of watching the whole interview? The interveiw and B. Husseiens answer will be a good 527 ad though.
I think Obama just got punked by the Clintons.
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