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Obama Palin’ Around with Anti-Semites?

posted by swaldman | 12:33pm Saturday November 1, 2008

At the American Academy of Religion conference, I met Michelle Rosenthal, a professor at University of Haifa in Israel.Two interesting things:–When it comes to perceptions of the U.S. election, the economy is trumping foreign policy even in Israel. Israelis who had concerns about Obama not being pro-Israel enough are increasingly focusing on how the American economic downturn is hurting the Israeli high-tech industry.–She was a professor at University of Chicago at the same time as Rashid Khalidi (who’s been attacked an anti-semitic Obama pal by the McCain camp). Rosenthal’s memory: “one of the most moderate Pallestinians out there. Most of my Israeli colleagues are to the left of him.”This brings me to an unusual exchange between CNN’s Rick Sanchez and McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb on whether Obama hangs out with anti-semites:



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posted October 31, 2008 at 7:54 pm


The CNN’s Rick Sanchez and McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb on whether Obama hangs out with anti-semites is a typical Republican smear. It is about time the media are pressing people.
McCain donated money to the same individual that the Republicans are using against Obama.
The US deregulation of the banking and futures trading (credit default swaps) has caused a major international financial crisis.
All the people that were negative about Obama’s trip to Europe and his speech in Berlin do not understand that we live in a global economy.
A large number of people also do not understand that we are just starting to feel the effects of the economic crisis.
[strong]100 Year Crash: McCain adviser spurred $62 trillion derivatives market that will swamp global markets[/strong]
Lurking in the background of the collapse of two of Wall Street’s biggest names, is a $62 trillion segment of the $450 trillion market for derivatives that grew huge thanks to McCain’s chief economic adviser, Phil “Americans are Whiners” Gramm. In Dec 2000, Gramm, while a US Senator, snuckin a 262-page amendment CFMA to a government re-authorization bill (11,000 pages) that created what is now the $62 trillion market for credit default swaps
http://tinyurl.com/56rkcb
Paul Krugman: Phil Gramm could cause next Great Depression
http://tinyurl.com/4twh4f (video)
McCain has not repudiated reports that Gramm is on the shortlist to become Treasury secretary if McCain is elected, even after Gramm labeled America “a nation of whiners”
Gramm was always Wall Street’s man in the Senate. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee during the Clinton administration, he consistently underfunded the Securities and Exchange Commission and kept it from stopping accounting firms from auditing corporations with which they had conflicts of interest.
http://tinyurl.com/4md5dx



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