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Friday, February 29, 2008

Barack Obama is as cynical as any politician seen recently. He campaigns in Ohio on the promise that he will end NAFTA. (Though it is debateable that NAFTA has anything to do with the economic decline of Ohio; taxes and excessive regulation being more likely candidates.) But, his advisors have privately assured the Canadian Counsel in Chicago that he doesn't mean it.

Barack is also trying to shore up his support amonst Jews, who are alarmed at the anti-Israel advisors he has. He says he barely knows Zbig Brzezinski. (So what was Zbig doing having meetings with Syria's Assad?) And he says Robert Malley is really not an adviser even though he is on a published list of Obama's advisers. Samantha Power is not discussed at all, I suppose becasue she left her job at Harvard to work on Obama's Senate staff. In the meantime, Obama is not getting much help from the Arabs. The UAE paper the Gulf News says that Obama will "integrate Israel into the Arab world" by ending US support to Israel in resistance to Hezbollah and Hamas. In other words, Obama will turn Israel over to the Arabs. It is easy to see why the Arabs would think that, given the animosity to Israel of Obama's advisers. Obama says publically that he supports Israel, but we know that he is cynical enough to say what it takes to get the Jewish vote regardless of what his true beliefs are.

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