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--> There you have it; George bush Flip Flops on Israel forty times more than John Kerry ever has. Just look at Kerry's record in the senate.
---> And Furthermore, any true liberal Jew would NEVER vote in favor of someone who has ignored the poor, raped the environment, and attempted to impose his own religious convictions (which go against our own) on the American people. How can you call yourself a Jew and vote for Bush? How can you call yourself a Jew and vote for the corporate takeover of our community? Zeh lo ha yehudi ani yodeah.

I need to get up some links to my previous ABK posts for new readers.
Here's one:
http://www.jewishpress.com/news_article_print.asp?article=4242

Some more:
http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2004/08/anyone-but-kerry-dept_19.html
http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2004/06/anyone-but-kerry-dept_16.html
http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2004/05/anyone-but-kerry-dept_24.html

Kerry wants to return to the Jimmy Carter/Bill Clinton days of endless negotiations in which the only party ever pressured is Israel. Bush has not flipped on Israel at all. He has steadily supported building the fence, killing terrorists, and has defended Israel against the UN and EU. At the same time he has laid out a clear path for a 2-state solution which requires Palestine to have a peaceful representative government. He has not met with Arafat. He has not wavered from his vision.

Kerry believes in the UN as a legitimate authority in global disputes. Bush deals with the UN as we must, but is under no illusion that the UN is anything more than the sum of its parts: a bunch of countries, most of whom are dictatorships, many of which band together on a regular basis to scapegoat Israel and Jews.

More on Kerry's foreign policy ideas:
http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2004/10/sum-of-all-fears.html

I haven't noticed any restrictions on my religious freedoms during the 4 years of the Bush admin, have you?

About "raping the poor": Under Bush, minority home ownership has gone to its highest levels ever, also more people own their own home than ever before. The poorest taxpayers percentage got lowered. The child credit was increased. Small business owners have more money to hire or buy equipment, which means more jobs. It was a very shallow recession, with jobs and business improving substantially the last 2 years.

You want to rape the poor and create "welfare for the middle class" by creating government programs instead, raise taxes. Kerry is your standard-issue Big Govt Liberal, and that's what he'll do.

http://tinypic.com/dfin5

->Fact: George Bush said in London, "Israel should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people, and not prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences"
(Flip)

->Fact: Following Israel’s actions targeting Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in March, White House spokesman Scott McClellan first said on-camera that “Israel has the right to defend herself.” But then, according to Reuters, “...in off-camera comments minutes later, McClellan revised the White House position by adding, ‘We are deeply troubled by this morning's actions in Gaza’” (Reuters, March 22, 2004). The same rhetoric was echoed days later by the Bush Administration's Ambassador to the United Nations at the time, John D. Negroponte, who told the UN Security Council that "the United States was 'deeply troubled' by the killing of Sheik Yassin and believed Israel's action had escalated tensions in the region"
(Flop)

John Kerry's reliance on the UN is absurd. John Kerry has made it clear that he will never give another country a veto power over our right to pre-emption. With that said, John Kerry has also said that IF IN FACT we do engage in a war on behalf of our national security and the world opposes our war, when all the smoke is cleared, John Kerry can stand up and say "See, I told you so. I told you this war was right." George Bush has not done that, and the world will never trust him again. Its time for a fresh start.

Second, John Kerry will wage war against the true enemy of Israel, Iran. Two days ago Iran brandished its new missles with "death to israel" written on its side. Then yesterday, the Iranians endorsed George W. Bush for president, on the grounds that Democrats have a history of pressuring Iranians on behalf of human rights.

Mark my words, If John Kerry is President, we will go to war with Iran in the next four years. George Bush took his eye off the ball by invading Iraq. I was living in Israel when we invaded Iraq. I had my gasmask. And Saddam did nothing, while Iran was hiding away, making the weapons that will one day kill our brothers and sisters.

Finally, the economy: George bush raped the environment not the poor. George Bush ignored the poor. Homeownership typically rises during a recession, because interest rates are so low. With greenspan pushing rates all the way to 1% no wonder so many people own homes. Too bad they can't pay for it; Debt has risen by about 2 trillion dollars these past four years. Private after tax income has remained constant, and costs are skyrocketing. The Labor Force participation rate is shrinking, showing how employment REALLY IS not catching up with the population increases.

George Bush has irresponsibly cut taxes for the wealthiest americans, increased government spending, and taken his eye off of the true Market Failure, corporate externalities.

->Fact: George Bush said in London, "Israel should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people, and not prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences"
(Flip)

->Fact: Following Israel’s actions targeting Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in March, White House spokesman Scott McClellan first said on-camera that “Israel has the right to defend herself.” But then, according to Reuters, “...in off-camera comments minutes later, McClellan revised the White House position by adding, ‘We are deeply troubled by this morning's actions in Gaza’” (Reuters, March 22, 2004). The same rhetoric was echoed days later by the Bush Administration's Ambassador to the United Nations at the time, John D. Negroponte, who told the UN Security Council that "the United States was 'deeply troubled' by the killing of Sheik Yassin and believed Israel's action had escalated tensions in the region"
(Flop)

John Kerry's reliance on the UN is absurd. John Kerry has made it clear that he will never give another country a veto power over our right to pre-emption. With that said, John Kerry has also said that IF IN FACT we do engage in a war on behalf of our national security and the world opposes our war, when all the smoke is cleared, John Kerry can stand up and say "See, I told you so. I told you this war was right." George Bush has not done that, and the world will never trust him again. Its time for a fresh start.

Second, John Kerry will wage war against the true enemy of Israel, Iran. Two days ago Iran brandished its new missles with "death to israel" written on its side. Then yesterday, the Iranians endorsed George W. Bush for president, on the grounds that Democrats have a history of pressuring Iranians on behalf of human rights.

Mark my words, If John Kerry is President, we will go to war with Iran in the next four years. George Bush took his eye off the ball by invading Iraq. I was living in Israel when we invaded Iraq. I had my gasmask. And Saddam did nothing, while Iran was hiding away, making the weapons that will one day kill our brothers and sisters.

Finally, the economy: George bush raped the environment not the poor. George Bush ignored the poor. Homeownership typically rises during a recession, because interest rates are so low. With greenspan pushing rates all the way to 1% no wonder so many people own homes. Too bad they can't pay for it; Debt has risen by about 2 trillion dollars these past four years. Private after tax income has remained constant, and costs are skyrocketing. The Labor Force participation rate is shrinking, showing how employment REALLY IS not catching up with the population increases.

George Bush has irresponsibly cut taxes for the wealthiest americans, increased government spending, and taken his eye off of the true Market Failure, corporate externalities.

"John Kerry has made it clear that he will never give another country a veto power over our right to pre-emption."

And if you believe that, I have a bridge you might be interested in.....

"Second, John Kerry will wage war against the true enemy of Israel, Iran. Two days ago Iran brandished its new missles with "death to israel" written on its side."

Bwahahahahaha. Then why does he want to give them nuclear fuel? Also, read this.

Anonymous – I was wondering about your assertion that the “true Market Failure” was “corporate externalities”

And I was also wondering about your assertion that increased home ownership by the poor was a bad thing. Most economists consider home ownership to be a positive development – well, most capitalist economists do, anyway.

The idea of a ‘true Market Failure’ being attributed to ‘corporate externalities’ was unfamiliar to me, but I don’t read much socialist literature. A quick perusal of the very left-leaning Guardian familiarized me with this fairly socialist idea of corporate externalities as a form of Evil.

From the Guardian article, literally titled “Evil, inc.”

"Far less exceptional in the world of the corporation are the routine and regular harms caused to others - workers, consumers, communities, the environment - by corporations' psychopathic tendencies. These tend to be viewed as inevitable and acceptable consequences of corporate activity - "externalities" in the coolly technical jargon of economics"

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1317928,00.html

Do you share the Guardian’s belief that private corporations are psychopathic? If so, it is interesting that you support Kerry.