Another boost to a more modern policy in the middle east…
The White House is placing a major vote of confidence in J Street, the left-leaning Jewish group whose conference later this month has become the focus of a battle over the group’s place in American Middle East politics.
National Security Adviser Jim Jones will be the keynote speaker at the conference, a J Street official, Hadar Susskind, confirms.
Secret Muslim? psh! Barak is a Hebrew name.
modern policy my ass…
@rat_bastard
Actually, Barack is a Semitic word that shows up in Arabic, Farsi, Saharan, Indonesian, Central Asian, and Nile Valley languages. The root word is one of the most common in the Africa-Eurasia axis and is probably older than the Bible.
Jeremy Ben-Ami is a good dude
Yeah Matt, but one of the official Israeli sidearms is called the “Barak” and thats good enough for me…
and I cannot spell my president’s name.
This is good, but I’m concerned about the Weekly Standard neocon warmonger campaign to pressure Congress folks to pull out of J-Street events…
Obama Advisor to Elderly: “We’re Going to Let You Die”
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin got pilloried for suggesting that the government-run health care system set up under the bills in Congress would lead to “death panels.”
But, now, a video has surfaced showing Obama economics advisor Robert Reich essentially admitting Palin was right.
Reich, the former Clinton administration Labor Secretary has been caught on tape making a death panel confession.
In a 2007 speech at the University of California at Berkeley, Reich began his address by saying he was going to deliver a refreshingly honest talk about health care from the vantage point of an insider who would never run for president.
“In other words, this is what the truth is,” he said.
Reich admitted: “If you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.”“
Also, I’m going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government … to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs,” he admitted. “What that means, less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents.”
Gary Bauer, a pro-life former presidential candidate who is the head of American Values, calls Reich’s words “pretty shocking stuff.”"
“The media just couldn’t believe it when Sarah Palin suggested that government-run, socialized healthcare would lead to ‘we’re going to let you die’ death panels,” he said in response. “But that’s exactly what Reich said.”"
“To the bean counting bureaucrats, your life is a burden, not a blessing,” Bauer continued. “So Big Government is going to dictate what healthcare you can and cannot receive.”"
“Need critical surgery? Maybe not. Suffering from serious pain? Sorry. Need cancer treatment? Too bad,” he said in an email to LifeNews.com.
“How could anyone possibly call that reform? Sadly, many politicians do,” he concluded. “Reich essentially admitted that Palin was right.”
O-dub, you’re being spammed by Tater Salad. Same exact comment in three different threads.
And what do we make of the quotes of the Obama economic advisor Reich, Jaim?