Now that Obama is crushing McCain across the board, I can stop using “most anti-Israel campaign evuh” and go back to predicting the “most anti-Israel administration evuh.” Eyeroll:
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama paid tribute Sunday to outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert, and welcomed the chance to work with his successor… This democracy, he said, “is once again demonstrating that it can handle transition, and we are reminded today that the U.S.-Israeli relationship transcends parties and individual leaders.”
How weird that he’d be saying that during the general, when during the primaries he was boasting about his opposition to Likud policies. Which was itself weird given how it was the Likud who made peace with Egypt and handed over Gaza to the Palestinians. Almost like Obama wasn’t so much attacking Likudniks as much as he was attacking people who think that the US has an interest in a aggressively standing by Israel.
And no excuses on this: using “pro-Likud” as code word for “pro-Israel” is bush league. Only the most rabid anti-Israel academics use that as their fig leaf these days. Better to stick with the more nuanced “AIPAC” dog whistle that Biden seems to prefer.
References:
* Survey USA: Obama by six in Virginia, up four points in two weeks [Hot Air]
* Obama pays tribute to Olmert, looks forward to working with successor [Ha'aretz]
* Obama Now Actively Channeling Rabid Anti-Israel Academics, Adopting Their Dumbest Anti-Israel Euphemisms [MR]
* Biden Now Actively Channeling Rabid Anti-Israel Partisans, Adopting Their Barely-Veiled Anti-Israel Euphemisms [MR]
Previously:
* NJDC: Biden Is Pro-Israel Because… Ummm… Err… Because He Just Is OK? [MR]
* Democrats Outraged Over Jewish-Issues Poll Questions That Are… Umm… Demonstrably True
* Obama Campaign Cripples Anti-Ahmadinejad Rally, Neatly Crystallizes Thuggish Liberal Fascism
