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By Michael J. Smith on Wednesday January 24, 2007 10:00 PM

Another entry for the Comment Seems Superfluous department. This, from the drolly named TotallyJewish.com:

http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/world/?content_id=5400

Edwards: Iran Threat Serious

"The challenges in your own backyard – represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel," the candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination told the Herzliya Conference, referring mainly to the Iranian threat.

In his speech, Edwards criticised the United States' previous indifference to the Iranian issue....

Hinting to possible military action, Edwards stressed that "in order to ensure Iran never gets nuclear weapons, all options must remain on table." ... Edwards also discussed Syria's recent calls for peace with Israel, saying that "talk is cheap," and that Syria was not doing enough to prove it was serious.

After opening his speech with great praise for Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Edward's ... continued to say that Israel has made many concessions in order to advance peace [but] little has been seen on the Palestinian side....

In a further display of support for Israel, Edwards went so far as to suggest that Israel should even be made a member of NATO....

I agree about NATO -- it deserves Israel as a member.

Apart from that, though -- somebody remind me why we were supposed to be excited about this guy? I haven't seen pandering at this level since Hillary went orgasmic over Israel's apartheid wall last year.

Oh, and I'd love to hear what nice Johnnie had to say about vegetative former mass murderer Ariel Sharon. But perhaps that's not for foreign consumption. Body

"The challenges in your own backyard – represent an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel," the candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination told the Herzliya Conference, referring mainly to the Iranian threat.

In his speech, Edwards criticised the United States' previous indifference to the Iranian issue....

Hinting to possible military action, Edwards stressed that "in order to ensure Iran never gets nuclear weapons, all options must remain on table." ... Edwards also discussed Syria's recent calls for peace with Israel, saying that "talk is cheap," and that Syria was not doing enough to prove it was serious.

After opening his speech with great praise for Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Edward's ... continued to say that Israel has made many concessions in order to advance peace [but] little has been seen on the Palestinian side....

In a further display of support for Israel, Edwards went so far as to suggest that Israel should even be made a member of NATO....

I agree about NATO -- it deserves Israel as a member.

Apart from that, though -- somebody remind me why we were supposed to be excited about this guy? I haven't seen pandering at this level since Hillary went orgasmic over Israel's apartheid wall last year.

Oh, and I'd love to hear what nice things Johnnie had to say about vegetative former mass murderer Ariel Sharon. But perhaps that's not for home consumption.

Comments (9)

Tim:

I could be wrong about some of these, but here are some things I learned about John Edwards after surfing the web for awhile.

Meet John Edwards:

He seems to mouth labor and populist platitudes while consistently backing a largely imperialist and capital-centric program.

He strongly supported the invasion of Iraq and claimed he thought it was the right thing to do.

He now claims that he thinks it was wrong.

He supports the continued occupation of Iraq while criticizing tactics and other features of it for political points.

He supports the death penalty.

He advocates US military assualt in Darfur.

He supports the embargo on Cuba.

He supports and advocates a vehemently imperial policy

He supports Imperial strategy in regard to Iran (and every other country on earth for that matter)

He supports dramatically increased military spending.

He supports the Patriot Act.

He supports less restrictions on wiretapping.

He has supported Bush energy policy.

He has an atrocious environmental record (to be fair on this one, it may have improved a bit since his early days in the Senate)

He supports a militaristic imperialist neoliberal foreign and trade policy.

He supports the insidious pro-privatization No Child Left Behind Act.

He backs insurance company exploitation of citizens.

He is vehemently "pro-Israel" (i.e. supports an illegal occupying apartheid colonization while supporting a puppet government in Palestine and now and then muttering incoherent niceties about "peace processes" and "honest brokerage".)

Edwards is not for abolishing NAFTA but he says he wants to "re-negotiate" it.

He voted for extending neoliberal "free trade" to Andean nations.

He has opposed closing military bases.

He opposed cutting down number of nuclear weapons.

He calls himself a "new democrat" and "third-wayist" (aka neoliberal) and says he is against left-right politics (i.e. he's a conservative neoliberal and against the left)

But but but...he has such nice hair!

Scruggs:

"But but but...he has such nice hair!"

I stole this thought on his hair from Max.

gluelicker:

The dude taking a drag in a white cap get-up? That's funny, I always thought Edwards was a CAUCASOID.

Oh wait, mebbe that's one of his constituents from East Carolina poultry plant country, on vacation in Cali because he's one of the lucky few beneficiaries of a personal injury lawsuit that ambulance chasing trial lawyer Edwards seems to favor over proletatian co-determination of workplace health and safety.

gluelicker:

The dude taking a drag in a white cap get-up? That's funny, I always thought Edwards was a CAUCASOID.

Oh wait, mebbe that's one of his constituents from East Carolina poultry plant country, on vacation in Cali because he's one of the lucky few beneficiaries of a personal injury lawsuit that ambulance chasing trial lawyer Edwards seems to favor over proletarian co-determination of workplace health and safety.

gluelicker:

Tim forgot to mention... Edwards is also a big fan of the principle of US extra-territorial sovereignty, as applied to Russia's hydrocarbon energy reserves. He really is the poster boy for reincarnated Cold War liberalism in the age of GWOT... except his domestic "liberalism" is more in the mold of Clinton than Mondale, per his DLC pedigree.

js paine:

clinton without
the heat seeking pecker
and 'lincoln among the helots '
native genius

a slick get to the top
guy

apple polisher or apple biter
he'll slide thru to the prize money
by any means necessary

and defer to 'dah judge '
come crunch time

a weathervane ..to be sure

ready NOW
to reflect the new populist currents
flowing up from the industrial belt
of the piedmont
to meet the currents
flowing
east from the locus classicus
of prol pop re activation

the rust belt

a perfect storm

forming over ..virginia

where the two currents meet the beltway burbs

royal pain:

i suspect the zionics are just another jury to convince this
latest sugar mouth from the south
he'd turn on em for a better offer anytime....
his cow bow
was pure opportunism

"shit man i know where the right buttons are "

-------------

but it don't hurt a southron boy one bit these days

sure the klan was reborn on the blend of
ole fashion race hate
plus papist bark chewing
and very real rustic pleb notions of
"a jew carpet baggery frontin for the rothchilders..."
butwhite dixie today
bible white dixie in particular
has a very deep soft spot
for this 'ada-vism'

this battlin ...'good book' type
hostile fronteer settler outfit.....

"too bad their jeeeews
but
they sure kin twist arab teeeet now
cain't they ...."

royal paine:

my bro missed this point


the northeast union piecards
NOW
so much edwards pals

have a long long
creepy
love fest goin with israel

solidarity house
ithat squalid trojan horse of empire
smack dab in the middle
of our union movement ...
has zionic instincts
all the way out to its pecker tip

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