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Not auditioning to play Brutus in Julius Ceasar
Victor Davis Jubilation T. Cornpone Hanson still can't get over the fact that that a strapping young buck is running for President:
Gov. Jindal made thousands of appearances without voicing angst about the legacy of Anglo imperialism in India; Joe Lieberman ran for vice president without evoking German responsibility for the Holocaust. Americans cannot accept that Obama's candidacy must be a referendum on one’s racial liberalism or that the son of a white mother and African national father gets to play by a different set of rules from past African-American and other ethnic and religious candidates. One cannot imagine how a Jindal or Lieberman could have made race and religion, and the politics of grievance, prominent issues in their campaigns rather than incidental to their identities.
Yes, I remember distinctly how Joe Lieberman was all hush-hush about the the fact that he was Jewish. Al Gore chose him for his good looks....
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Not to mention that Joe Lieberman was the only Jewish candidate to run for something as prominent as Governor or Senator, ever, in the history of the United States.
Avi Shafran IIRC had a classic line about Joe Lieberman: “He’s running for vice president, not chief rabbi”. Joe Lieberman could only push Jewish identity so far without alienating even some Jews.
Barack Obama has not run on racial grievances. It is only the Reverend Wright who has forced him to address anything of the sort.
And Barack Obama did not have the option of coming to America to get away from racism.
I understand each and every word in VDJTCH’s screed. But I cannoth understand them in the order in which he has used them. This rant of his makes no sense at all to me, and now I have a headache.
If that uppity Barack had not made a point of mentioning he was black no one would have ever known.
Hmmm… Jews were persecuted by Germans, therefore american liberals feel guilty. Indians were repressed by the British, therefore american liberals feel guilty.
Victor Davis Josephus Caligula Harmonica Hanson is a tool, therefore american liberals feel no guilt whatsoever in laughing at him.
Wow, obtuse even by Victor Mmm Bop Hanson’s standards. All I can remember about Lieberman’s bid for veep was that his Jewish bona fides allowed him to be really upset with blow jobs.
It is shocking that different candidates run different campaigns based on different issues. If it hasn’t been done before, it cannot be allowed!
Senator Lieberman deferred during Vietnam but has no problem sending other people’s children and family members off to unnecessary wars for Israel and control of oil. No problem at all.
This liar should be behind bars for being part of the psychopathic team that lied this nation into a illegal and immoral war. He should not be influencing policy on the middle east. Lieberman is always over Senator McCains shoulder whispering in his ear. Creepy.
Lieberman is a liar and a psychopath.
VDH has hung around with enough Zionists to know that for someone like Joe Lieberman, the USA cannot solve the existential grievance. The existential grievance is exile. In exile there is no Temple: one is not doing everything spiritually that could be done even if one is the most righteous person. Also one is always a minority and has to look over one’s shoulder in fear of embarrassing one’s people or getting too much power. In the United States this will never entirely go away. See the latest ADL poll where Jews having “too much power” is an increasing anti-Semitic view.