with people in the middle politically. they d say why does he say it that way? might sound like a small point to others, but the ones who learn their lingo of politics, it s important. your thoughts. i think tom friedman got it beautifully right in the new york times today he s pro-hagel. yeah. he s pro-hagel, but i think it took him awhile to get there. i think he s demonstrated right away the view of the jewish-american look on him is not monolithic. which he hadn t used, i think he was trying to say this was a difficult discussion to have in washington. he was trying to put it forward and say i m trying to make the best decisions for israel s interest and more importantly for america s interests. i remember him speaking very often recently saying i m not going to make a false choice being a strong advocate of israel s interests and other nations interests.
strapped his dog to the roof of the car. it s me your jewish friend sarah. can you believe it s election time again? time to go to the polling place, cross your name off the list and vote. but this year it s not going to be that easy because there are these brand new super [ bleep ] up laws as a way to prevent voter fraud but are in fact designed to make it hard for specific people to vote. black people, elderly people, poor people, and students. i wonder what those demographics have in common. oh, yeah. they re probably going to vote for this guy. hey, i just met you. and this is crazy. but here s my number. so call me maybe. it s hard to look right at you baby. but here s my number. so call me maybe. actually, when we look back on the off the wall of 2012, it
i have grown. i ve moved from being skeptical to being all for it. i think i m like so many people on that subject. especially younger people. and to hold a guy to what he said back at doing don t ask don t tell as national policy and say there s something wrong with this guy s thinking, i think that is unfair. i think, you know, that was 14 years ago. and i think that one of the things that i ve tried to encourage the human rights campaign and other gay rights groups to do is begin reaching out to these people who are not normally part of the gay silo. if you re not an advocate and starting out there, sometimes people don t know. i ve talked to chuck hagel about discussions i had with mike mullen years ago about don t ask don t tell. i wrote about that on my blog at the time. it was the only time someone in a journalistic way had encountered and talked to hagel. but his comments about james
it sounds like these guys are sick of each other. is that something you can report that they don t like each other, they talk like guys on a street corner? they ll all say they like each other. do they talk like guys toughing it out on the street corner? i think they do sometimes. what s amazing about that story in the journal is they re still having a conversation. its editorial pages and straight paper. did you get the sense this is a little tilted towards the republicans because of the sourcing? just about the way they admitted the source. didn t the obama people say we didn t want to participate in this because they thought it would harm the negotiations in progress? mark from politico had extra reporter around that. the president was saying when he said i get the $800 billion for free was pointing out people like johnny isaacson, tom cole in the house, conservative
that way? might sound like a small point to others, but the ones who learn their lingo of politics, it s important. your thoughts. i think tom friedman got it beautifully right in the new york times today he s pro-hagel. yeah. he s pro-hagel, but i think it took him awhile to get there. i think he s demonstrated right away the view of the jewish-american look on him is not monolithic. which he hadn t used, i think he was trying to say this was a difficult discussion to have in washington. he was trying to put it forward and say i m trying to make the best decisions for israel s interest and more importantly for america s interests. i remember him speaking very often recently saying i m not going to make a false choice being a strong advocate of israel s interests and other nations interests. they ve got to envision a structure in the middle east where all that neighborhood can get along. and for doing that he s been basically run over by certain aspects of the american-jewish