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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (36159)	7/23/2008 6:24:15 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224704

President won't touch 'bigot' dispute Israeli ambassador to U.N. applied label to Jimmy Carter July 22, 2008 © 2008 WorldNetDaily worldnetdaily.com President Bush won't touch a dispute that had the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations calling former President Jimmy Carter a "bigot." The word came today from Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, who responded to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, at a briefing. "Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, when asked by The New York Times if he was reprimanded by the Department of State after he called Jimmy Carter a 'bigot' for meeting with the head of Hamas, replied, 'The only reaction I received was very positive.' My question: Does the White House also react positively to this?" he asked. "I don't know about the conversations that were – that took place at the State Department and between that individual, so I'll refer you to then," Perino said. The Times reported it asked Gillerman: "You recently called Jimmy Carter a 'bigot' after he met with Khaled Meshal, the head of Hamas. Is it true you were reprimanded by the U.S. State Department?" "There was no complaint or reprimand. The only reaction I received was very positive," he told the Times. According to a Reuters report, Gillerman said he was saddened by a meeting between the ex-president and a group the U.S. formally recognizes as a terrorist organization. Carter "went to the region [Middle East] with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands," he said. Carter has said Hamas' top official told him Hamas would "accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians," Reuters reported. But the U.S. government noted that Hamas still includes in its charter a call for the destruction of Israel. The U.S. said it asked Carter not to meet with Hamas, but Carter denied that statement. At the time, the heaviest criticism for Carter came over a meeting with Meshal. The U.S. has designated Meshal, who is said to be responsible for the deaths of more than two dozen Americans, a terrorist. Carter also met with Meshal's deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk, also a fugitive terrorist wanted by the U.S. In addition, Carter laid a wreath at the grave of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. His actions brought everything from calls for the State Department to revoke his passport to the introduction of legislation to strip Carter's Georgia-based scholarly institution of taxpayer support. "America must speak with one voice against our terrorist enemies," Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich., said in a statement. "It sends a fundamentally troubling message when an American dignitary is engaged in dialogue with terrorists. My legislation will make sure that taxpayer dollars are not being used to support discussions or negotiations with terrorist groups." Knollenberg said the Carter Center, at Emory University in Atlanta, has received about $19 million in taxpayer funds since 2001. Meanwhile, the non-binding legislation was launched by Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa. If adopted, the bill would express the "sense of Congress" that it "disapproves of former President Jimmy Carter's freelance diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, which contradict the stated foreign policy position of the current administration." In a second question, Kinsolving asked: "The Scripps Howard News Service director of editorial policy, Jay Ambrose, has just written, 'I don't line up with those now carrying on over a New Yorker cover, like some fundamentalist Muslims did after a Danish newspaper carried cartoons that in their view made light of the Prophet Mohammed. And my question, does the White House agree or disagree with Director Ambrose?" "I'm not going to comment on director Ambrose," Perino said. The New Yorker covered featured caricatures of Obama and his wife in the Oval Office with paraphernalia associated with jihadists. Osama bin Laden's picture is on the wall and a U.S. flag is burning in the fireplace.

To: lorne who wrote (36159)	7/23/2008 6:47:46 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 224704

Worth repeating from your post----- Texan Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas articulates what America needs for energy policy. "Today, the appropriations markup that was going to include amendments that would open up the outer continental shelf and maybe even shale in Colorado and Utah was canceled," she told the same Bloomberg interviewer. "It wasn't postponed, it was canceled. So that indicates to me that the majority (referring to Democrat majority) is not going to try to have an open debate, but I hope I'm wrong. If they have an open debate, and we're allowed to have amendments, and we have a balanced plan that includes production in all the sectors, then I believe we can meet this problem in a bipartisan way, and that's what we should be doing for America." worldnetdaily.com