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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 74 days ago http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/more_on_the_sore.asp
| John Boehner puts out a statement in response to Obama's interview with Jeffrey Goldberg :
“Israel is a critical American ally and a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, not a ‘constant sore’ as Barack Obama claims. Obama’s latest remark, and his commitment to ‘opening a dialogue’ with sponsors of terrorism, echoes past statements by Jimmy Carter who once called Israel an ‘apartheid state.'...
That's a bit of a stretch. There are a lot of problems with Obama's comments to Goldberg, but he wasn't calling Israel a 'constant sore.' It's pretty clear he meant that the conflict was a 'constant sore.' He's also quite explicit in denouncing Carter's labeling of Israel as an apartheid state. David Frum does a better job of getting into this, noting that Obama's answers are "verbose and evasive - and yet in their way, curiously illuminating." On the matter of the Hamas endorsement, Frum makes the key point:
Obama's words are unexceptionable so far as they go. What's striking here is what is not said: There is no revulsion, no affront that Hamas would name him as its preferred candidate.
This has always been the problem with the Hamas endorsement--the Obama camp never once got their backs up at the notion that Hamas would welcome an Obama presidency. It would have been just as easy for Axelrod or Obama to turn this to their advantage--to say that Hamas clearly doesn't know anything about Obama or John Kennedy if the ... |
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