Testify
Like many, I'm confused as to why Congress allowed Stephen Colbert to testify in front of a committee. He delivered a decent comedy routine, but it added nothing to the discussion of illegal immigration. In a surprise move, Representative John Conyers was the voice of reason, asking Colbert to leave the testifying to experts.
Some on the right claim the Dems did this to distract from that day's testimony from Christopher Coates regarding the Justice Department's mishandling of the New Black Panther's voter intimidation case, but I find that a bit paranoid. Hearings take planning, and something big is always happening.
But all this is nothing next to the insanity of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks to the General Assembly of the U.N. He suggested that the U.S. government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks to help fight a recession (?) and, of course, to help Israel. Remind me again why we should support the U.N.?
President Obama called the speech hateful, offensive and inexcusable. Sounds accurate to me. Does he still believe in "no preconditions?" That could mean you have to excuse an awful lot.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:24 AM
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And when did "no preconditions" turn into "Israel must promise to stop building settlements -- not merely no new settlements, but no new buildings in existing settlements -- before peace talks begin"?
The word "settlement" is pejorative. Imagine if we dropped it. There is a small village in a country across the world, and its population has grown, so the residents would like to build a second school for their kids. And the President of the United States of America has forbidden them to do it, telling them that if they do this, he won't support discussions that might lead to their neighbors' promising to stop dropping rockets on their village.
It would be sad, except for the fact that a positive outcome of such talks would merely be yet another promise from the Palestinians to not shoot rockets. Not exactly the sort of goal that's worth the trouble it takes to get there.
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