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To: gamesmistress who wrote (367767)	6/7/2010 9:48:17 AM
From: gamesmistress	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Another consequence for Helen Thomas. Thank God for the Internet and YouTube, otherwise who would have known what she said? The NYT and WaPo have not covered this story at all - only a mention or two in blogs. The Hamas Poster Girl Jennifer Rubin - 06.07.2010 - 8:29 AM The Washington Post reports: Journalist Helen Thomas was scheduled to be the graduation speaker at Walt Whitman High School later this month — until Sunday, when she was disinvited after comments that she made about Israel and Palestine made many in the community uncomfortable, Montgomery Board of Education President Patricia O’Neill said Sunday. “We became aware that there are some unfortunate comments from her that are airing on YouTube,” O’Neill said. O’Neill said that especially given the large Jewish population at Whitman, the school was not comfortable with having Thomas speak at the graduation on June 14. So, if she is not fit to speak to high schoolers, why is she fit to sit in the White House briefing room? Now, there is one place where she is very welcome: she’s being lauded by Hamas. (”No doubt that Thomas Helen has told the truth that everybody in the world knows, but as American in a very important position , she was attacked by Zionists who went mad from the reality she mentioned in front of all people.”) So what’s the White House going to do: show it has as much sense as local school administrators, or allow Hamas and other Jew-haters the thrill of seeing their gal treated with respect in the White House briefing room? I’m sure this is another difficult question for the White House, which finds it oh-so-hard to make moral distinctions and come down against those who launch repugnant attacks on the Jewish state.

To: gamesmistress who wrote (367767)	6/7/2010 10:13:01 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Something Obama is having trouble adjusting to is that current events most often set the agenda. This is why so many people were dissatisfied with the preoccupation with healthcare for over a year. Recycling an old Clinton sound bite, "It's the economy stupid." * * *

To: gamesmistress who wrote (367767)	6/7/2010 11:02:45 AM
From: Geoff Altman	14 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793896

I don’t think that’s who Barack Obama is. I think he’s a pretty cool character, fairly analytical, and I think we all admire as part of the meritocracy in America. Sorry Juan, you lost me...... If anything I'd say that Obama is evidenced by the absence of a meritocracy..... I mean, in order for you to participate in a meritocracy you first have to accomplish something.... There's no evidence that Obama has earned anything at all......that goes for most of his administration too......