wizened's Comments (54)

“Are you kidding? Fool by Burris?”

“You don't think gross incompetence exists in the US? American surgeons have even amputated the wrong leg. 100,000 Americans die or are injured every year from doctor or hospital error, including gross incompetence and negligence. It has been suggested that one cause of this large amount of error is that our doctors often are practicing medicine on inadequate sleep, a problem that doctors face much less often in the NHS.

The author has not actually proved anything. You are leaping to conclusions based on a complete lack of evidence, and some anecdotal fear-mongering by the author. I happen to think that single payer is preferable to the NHS, so I am not going to offer a general defense of the UK system, but I will say that you should actually learn something about the NHS and weigh a good deal of evidence before you start maligning it on the basis of a single anecdote by an author who offers nothing in the way of actual argument.”

“wizened,

My point was that once MLK's philandering had been exposed, his wife remained faithful to him to the end, and she continued to perform as a great civil rights leader on her own. I never once heard anyone criticize her for remaining faithful to her husband, but Hillary Clinton has been repeatedly trashed here and elsewhere for preserving her marriage, keeping her family together, and succeeding as a U.S. Senator and lately as Secretary of State. Incidentally her job approval rating remains in the 70s.

But if you're concerned about timeliness, we could point out that Jesse Jackson fathered a child out of wedlock awhile back, and I seldom read or hear anyone criticize him or his wife.

RapidRay,

Your comment above says more about you than it does about Bill and Hillary Clinton who are widely recognized for their world leadership and outstanding public service.”

“wizened,

Coretta Scott King died only a couple of years ago. She was the widow of MLK,Jr. I don't believe anyone ever criticized her for remaining faithful to her husband as did Hillary-haters.

Okay. I'm not posting anymore comments to this thread as it seems that Felsenthal is interested in pumping up the number of responses to her attack on Bill Clinton.”

“No surprise you can't mount a substantive criticism of the view, and simply resort to fatalistic quipping. Israel will not survive in its current configuration. The question is whether or not a Jewish Homeland can be preserved at all. If so, it will be because of the distinction I have put forward along with a single state secular democratic solution to the current conflict. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine simply will not stand, and that is a point on which the world has left you behind. That you don't see this simply betrays your myopia. And such myopia will destroy Israel as a Jewish homeland completely.”

“A Jewish homeland does not necessarily imply a Jewish state. Palestine may be recognized as a Jewish homeland, giving Jews special immigration rights, for example, without the establishment of a Jewish state that only pretends to be a democracy by excluding a significant number of the residents whose land it controls.

I use the term Imperial Zionism to distinguish from mere Zionism, which need not include a Jewish state, merely a Jewish homeland, in Palestine. To insist on the recognition of Palestine as a Jewish homeland is reasonable and supportable from my political perspective, that of a secular democrat, but to insist on the establishm­ent/preser­vation of a Jewish state is wholly incompatible with the secular democratic ideals on which my country was founded. So I distinguish between mere Zionism and Imperial Zionism as a way of pointing out that Zionism may be compatible with secular democratic ideals, in spite of the obvious incompatibility of such ideals with the current state of Israel. And I do so because I support the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and don;t want that idea to be crushed along with the obvious injustice of te current state of Israel.”

“She clearly has an axe to grind...an­d she's grinding away.”

“Of course, when you listen to, or actually read Mr. Biden's statement and experience the tone and delivery and actual wording, there is nothing to defend here. Mr. Biden simply answered a question (please see actual footage) about what he would tell his family, and did it honestly. He suggested we use common sense with regards to our own family. He caused not panic other than from this blogger.”

“Well it's like this! The United States is broke! This administration is about to spend more money than all administrations combined since World War 1. Also you won't believe this but 1 in 3 Senators are millionaires. Including Kennedy, Boxer, Rockefeller, Feinstein.­. Plus 123 congressman. Besides government has never been able to run anything efficiently. Look at Social Security and Medicare, both are broke. From adding new people to the rolls but not taxing enough to cover it and they been raiding the fund to balance the budget under Clinton, Bush, Reagan. That made the deficits look smaller, when they weren't . We are in debt to a tune of $65,000,00­0,000,000.­00.”

“I am in agreement with you.”