Listen Neville, I'm picking up on your sarcasm here, so why don't you just acknowledge with Bush and Charles Krauthammer that what Obama wants is to surrender all American interests to Iran and would be willing to bomb Israel into the submission to show our good faith.
And that's not far off from what G.B. and C.K. and their ilk think either.

Posted by Jack | May 16, 2008 4:26 PM

Not so great minds, thinking all alike:

Hrm. We could do all of that, but wouldn't it be better to just keep the embargo in place and hope the Castro regime falls? It's only been 47 years and nine Presidents; clearly it's way too soon to try to evaluate the success of the policy...

Just make sure and check with everyone else so you don't all wear the same color Brooks Brothers suits.

Posted by TLB | May 16, 2008 4:48 PM

TLB - If Cuba had been trading all this time with the United States and pouring mojitos down American tourists' gullets for the past 60 years, would the sense of anti-Americanism you seem to think exists in Cuba still be there? Would there still be a Castro in office? It seems to me the fall of the Soviet Union had as much to do with Levis and Pepsi as hard-nosed jingoism.

Or at least that what my girlfriend seems to think. She gasp is an immigrant from the erstwhile Soviet Union. People want stupid crap like Britney Spears records and Hello Kitty thongs. Once they've had a taste, they want more and will fight for it.

Posted by RoboticGhost | May 16, 2008 5:49 PM

RG: tell your gf a) zdravstvuite from MattY's Soviet flashback site, b) Lonewacko doesn't comment on Cuba but was only pointing out that the similarity between MattY's "joke" and that from someone else.

Posted by TLB | May 16, 2008 10:35 PM

"what Obama wants is to surrender all American interests to Iran and would be willing to bomb Israel into the submission to show our good faith."

If I thought Obama meant that, I'd probably vote for him, despite being an anarchist.

Of course, according to Josh Marshall, this makes me an "eliminationist". And equally of course, Marshall doesn't care how many Palestinians get "eliminated" as long as Israel's "right to exist" remains untarnished. Wonder what Josh thinks about Hitler's regime's "right to exist".

Everybody has a problem with Ahmadinejad saying the Zionist REGIME should fade from the pages of time like the Soviet regime or the Shah's regime, but nobody has a problem with Hillary's "obliterate Iran" and its 75 million civilians.

As everyone knows, Israel is just waiting for Bush to leave to start a serious offensive in Gaza to try to destroy Hamas - with all the massive killing of Palestinian civilians that will necessarily entail. It's common knowledge. It's in every news media.

And nobody cares to make a comment - especially Obama and Clinton.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | May 16, 2008 11:25 PM

Re Richard Steven Hack

"If I thought Obama meant that, I'd probably vote for him, despite being an anarchist."

Mr. Hack couldn't vote for Obama if the latter proposed to parade Olmerts' head on a stick down Pennsylvania Ave in DC. Apparently, Mr. Hack has neglected to inform the readership that convicted felons forfeit their right to vote. As a convicted armed bank robber and graduate of the federal birdcage in Leavenworth, Ka., Mr. Hack qualifies as a convicted felon.

Posted by SLC | May 17, 2008 8:58 AM

SLC,

Actually only 12 states deny convicted felons the right to vote _after_ they complete their sentences. In Maine and Vermont, convicted felons are allowed to vote even from prison.

Posted by Hector | May 17, 2008 10:32 AM

Re Hector

Mr. Hack was convicted of a federal crime, namely bank robbery, and served his time in a federal prison. It is my understanding that such a person can't vote in a federal election (i.e. president, congressman, senator).

Posted by SLC | May 17, 2008 6:49 PM

I did say I was an anarchist, and anarchists don't vote.

However, if I DID want to vote for Obama, I could of course use some alternate ID method - or pay some other voter to cast my vote for me - you know, how they do it in Israel.

However, the notion of parading Olmert's head on a stick down Pennsylvania Avenue has considerable merit.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | May 17, 2008 9:00 PM

So if we had a free trade agreement with Cuba, would that be good or bad? Seems to me that the left is rather inconsistent when it comes to trade. Trade with Peru and Colombia, bad, trade with Cuba good?

Posted by Adam Herman | May 18, 2008 12:07 AM

Re Richard Steven Hack

"However, the notion of parading Olmert's head on a stick down Pennsylvania Avenue has considerable merit."

Well, something that Mr. Hack and I can agree on, although I would prefer to have Olmert burned at the stake.

Posted by SLC | May 18, 2008 8:43 AM