'Let Me Do That Again', or, What The Democrat Bosses Think A Two-Thirds Vote Of 'Aye' Sounds Like

The issue at hand was that Himself was getting beaten to a pulp because the Democrat Platform Committee had struck language that included mention of the Almighty and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

So, the word came down from The Kremlin The White House to FixThisProblem!  So, dutifully, HizHonner The Mayor Of Los Angeles took the podium, and put the question to a voice vote.

The delegates were, well, uncooperative. So, in true Stalinist tradition, it was decided to keep voting until they GotItRight, know-whud-I-mean? After three attempts, with the 'no' crowd clearly in the majority, and more vociferous each time, The Chair decided that he had his 2/3's majority and deemed the question passed. The boos rained down.

No matter. This is, after all, Obama's World.  The original language suited him fine, he just didn't like the blowback. He'll continue to govern as if He were the Almighty's Chosen, and He'll hang Israel out to dry.  The reaction on the floor was a rare moment of candor. The majority of the delegates want no mention of the PotentateOfTime ruining their event, and the anti-Semitism of the Left is becoming ever more apparent.

Were OS Jewish, he would be making contingency plans in case Himself were elected. It will get ugly at some point in the not-distant future. 

As a Christian, OS is completely unsurprised, and really not upset. TheGreatIAm is doing just fine, with or without the approval of the DNC delegates, and it was refreshing for OS to see and hear his intuitions confirmed. The camera cuts to the audience last night during His Billness's speech told the tale. They do believe that the only kingdom to concern one's self with is in this world, and this speech was much more of a religious event than a political address. No telling what will transpire tonight...

The disturbing bit is that this sort of approach awaits us all in November--what if Himself decides that all those millions of people who voted GOP really were confused, mistaken, and need to be given the 'opportunity' to vote again, until they GetItRight? Or He decides that 45% of the vote and a minority of electoral votes really does comprise a majority...why that could never happen here, right?

OK, now take a peek at the video....

Horrified But Not Surprised Department: Helen Thomas Collects A Journalism Prize From The PLO

As mentioned before, OS is horrified, but not shocked.

The Jerusalem Post article linked above tells the immediate tale.

OS has other questions, along the lines of:

Didn't any of the Best and Brightest of the Washington/YewNorkCity press corps not have an inkling of this woman's virulently anti-Semitic views?

Wouldn't it be plausible to ask if she had acted as an agent of the PLO over the years, feeding Arafat and company the inside gossip and info from the White House? She was revered, treated with deference, a true insider's insider. She was tiny little lady who was traditionally called upon first at Presidential press conferences, harmless by all appearances.

Until she was 'outed' a couple of years ago, it would have been completely unthinkable to even raise the questions about her in public--wouldn't wish to appear sexist, you know. Or disrespectful to harmless little old ladies.

Why do the press get to ask all the questions of us, and we never get to ask questions of them?

Why do they presume to always occupy some mythical moral high ground, especially if they adhere to the dogma of the Left?

Why?

Daniel Eisenbud On Why Israel Survives As The World Around Burns

OS has always marveled at the Israelis. He's never been there, but has encountered a few along the way, survivors or children of survivors of the worst the twentieth century could conjure up against them, and yet here they are. They create artists like Perlman, orchestras like Israel Philharmonic, they develop the technology that make cell phones possible, they make the desert bloom, they have a free press, and democratic elections, and it all looks chaotic.  Yet compared to Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya--need we continue?

On the way to somewhere else entirely, OS ran across this essay by Daniel Eisenbud at the Jerusalem Post.  It's an unusual piece, actually, detailing the difference between those Israelis who will not give in to the hatred that assails them, and those who do. And, in thinking about it, OS has met a few of both Eisenbud describes.

The most invaluable lesson I learned about survival from Israelis is that the healthiest way to deal with the vitriol directed at this nation is to not succumb to it, but rather, to transcend it. 

While Israelis – the vast majority of whom have served in the military – are acutely aware of the murderous hatred that tries to permeate our borders day after day, second after second, they also know from experience that giving in to the hate is a fool’s errand.

Indeed, I have found that the common denominator among Sabras is their majestic ability to rise above the odium that surrounds them and attempts to consume them.

It’s beautiful, and humbling, to behold.

 

To which OS can only add, 'Amen, brother.' But Eisenbud continues..

 

CONVERSELY, THE most jarring hatred I have encountered since moving to this country a year and half ago – apart, of course, from that of terrorists – may also surprise you.

It comes from the nefarious breed of Jewish immigrant who comes already filled with rage, and the mistaken belief that Israel is somehow an acceptable venue for their hate because of the copious amounts surrounding it.

 

To which OS must regretfully add--yes, you do have that correct as well. OS knows a family like that, preparing to move to Israel. The mother of the family quite seriously believes, for instance, that it would be a good thing for every Iranian to be wiped from the face of the earth. 

 

Seriously. Not making this up. It would not surprise the reader to hear that this family is seriously non-functional, would it? Rather like the Arab societies that surround Israel, consumed by their own rage at Israel, history, one another, themselves. Eisenbud is urging them to stay home, because Israel already has enough problems without them.

 

OS will stop now, because Eisenbud knows how to write, and you should read what he has to say. 

 

In these perilous days, he offers wisdom.

  

Adios, Helen Thomas: Departed And Unlamented

Even Helen Thomas learns that it is possible to get caught in the act of being one's self. She was caught with her virulently anti-Semitic pants down last week, and finally is retiring.

Wikipedia updated her bio today:

On May 27, 2010, outside a White House Jewish heritage event, Rabbi David Nesenoff asked if Thomas had any comments on Israel. Thomas replied, "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,"[10] and added that the people are under occupation. Asked where they should go she replied that "they should go home" to Poland, Germany, America and "everywhere else".[11][12] Thomas subsequently issued an apology on her personal web site.[12][13][14] On June 6, Thomas's agency, Nine Speakers, Inc., announced that they had dropped her as a client, due to her remarks.[15][16] Craig Crawford, who co-authored "Listen up, Mr. President", said that he "will no longer be working with Helen on our book projects".[17] Other fallout from Thomas' statements include a rebuke from the White House[18] and cancellation of a commencement speech she was to give at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.[19] Around noontime on June 7th, 2010 in consequence to her comments from a few days earlier, Thomas tendered her immediate resignation and entered into retirement.

She wasn't a harmless little old lady, as she was so often portrayed, and happily let everyone believe. She was a bitter partisan, carrying a legacy of anti-Semitism inherited from her Lebanese family heritage. This latest outrage was the final straw.

Of course, there will be an obligatory period of silence, the acquisition of a new speaker bureau representation, a new book deal, and she'll be on the road this time next year, in front of sympathetic anti-Semitic audiences on the left of American politics, as well as Muslim groups , explaining how she was victimized by the Zionists and the Jooo-ish Conspiracy.

In the interlude, we all get a bit of relief.

Miss Thomas, Oprah's on the phone. You available to appear?