Posted on 09/01/2009 10:31:48 AM PDT by AJKauf
It never ceases to amaze how people who should know better, erudite intellectuals who write with precision, flair, and lucidity and are capable of acute reflectiveness, can nevertheless lend their support to Barack Obama. Alan Dershowitz comes immediately to mind. In such important books as The Case for Israel, The Case for Peace, and The Case Against Israel’s Enemies, Dershowitz has done yeoman service on behalf of the beleaguered and universally misprized Jewish state. And yet, when it comes to the international figure who may well represent the most serious threat to Israel’s well-being and perhaps even to its survival — by whom I mean not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but Barack Obama — Dershowitz assembles his, shall we say, The Case for Obama.
Thus, in a much-publicized and mudslinging debate with British author Melanie Phillips, a staunch defender of the Jewish state who is highly suspicious of Obama’s intentions toward Israel, Dershowitz resolutely backstops the American president. Accusing Phillips of not understanding the structure of American politics, Dershowitz, a loyal Democrat, is all for giving Obama time to develop his presumably benign and far-seeing aspirations toward recalibrating the Israeli-Palestinian and Middle East imbroglio....
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Is Dersoshitz a good liberal?
Dershowitz loves Israel so much he just just move there....
I think it is much, much simpler than that. Dershowitz, like Paglia CANNOT fathom themselves being wrong in choosing Obama in the first place.
When the ‘deep thinkers’ think deeply enough and can say ‘I was wrong’ the game (for Obama) is over.
Dershovelshitz is renowned for throwing out the race card of anti-semitism any time he starts losing an argument. Which BTW, is quite often.
When it was revealed that he would be part of the OJ Dream Team, I remarked to my wife, "Get ready for the race card."
When it was played, she said, "You surely did call that right."
I shall carry that remembrance to the grave, as her saying I was right on something was phenomenal in and of itself.
How can anyone have respect for Dershowitz? He defended OJ Simpson. I remember Glenn Beck having Alan on when he was on CNN headline news, and I couldn’t believe Glenn would have him on.
You don’t think he wants to miss all the big-time liberal cocktail parties do you? With libs, it’s always self before...anything.
Dershowitz and Gloria Allred were almost permanent members of the radical and phony, Morton Downey Jr. show. I never thought that they would become so mainstream to the media.
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There are no “good” liberals. There are only liberals far worse than others.
Liberals - "they've looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down and still, somehow, it's clouds' illusions they recall they really don't know clouds at all." [Sorry, that just popped into my mind. ; )]
The occasional sunbeam makes it through the clouds with some. I like reading Paglia from time to time too.
All I know is that he was part of the OJ Simpson dream team. That's really all I need to know about him.
LOL, I know exactly where you are coming from.
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