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AIPAC’s Ovation for Trump is Not at All Surprising
The Daily Beast ^ | 22 March 2016 10:39am ET | staff

Posted on 03/22/2016 3:33:32 PM PDT by blueplum

My friends at the AIPAC conference are shocked, shocked that so many fellow attendees gave Donald Trump an ovation last night.

Just like my Republican friends are shocked that so many fellow Republicans have voted for him.

Why the surprise, though? Is it at all surprising that a rightward-tilting, nationalistic, often-anti-Muslim pep rally of 18,000 people (many paid to be there by a handful of billionaires) would applaud a rightward-tilting, nationalistic, often-anti-Muslim leader of pep rallies?

The weirdest shock of all, though, came from AIPAC itself, whose leader apologized this morning for Trump’s having insulted President Obama. Choking back tears, AIPAC’s new president, Lillian Pinkus, said that “we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States and President Obama … We are deeply disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with nor condone.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; aipac; dailybeast; demagogicparty; election2016; israel; jewishvote; lillianpinkus; memebuilding; middleeast; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump; trumpaipacspeech; waronterror
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To: afraidfortherepublic

yes, its called JSS (Jewish Suicide Syndrome) and it continues years and years after you’d have thought they’d have learned the lesson of their history


21 posted on 03/22/2016 4:26:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Choking back tears, AIPAC's new president, Lillian Pinkus, said that "we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States and President Obama ... We are deeply disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with nor condone."
IOW, it's already time for AIPAC to have a newer president.


22 posted on 03/22/2016 4:36:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: blueplum

Trump enchanted AIPAC, and one or two are crying. Buy them all vanilla ice cream cones, for heaven’s sake.


23 posted on 03/22/2016 6:10:10 PM PDT by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: pelican001
It’s more than just the voltage that counts.

Indeed..., "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got those swing (AMPS)".

24 posted on 03/22/2016 6:56:21 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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