So what's your point? That George Bush (and the entire Bush Family!) are Globalist/Elitists?
We agree. On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:28 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 10:43:52 AM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:40 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The importance Jews have played in the life of Hilary Clinton >>> >>> - >>> Hillary Clinton: Hamas responsible for civilian deaths in Gaza >>> >>> <http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Hillary-Clinton-Hamas-responsible-for-civilian-deaths-in-Gaza-370637> >>> - >>> Saban: Hillary Clinton is ideal candidate for Israel >>> >>> <http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Saban-Hillary-is-ideal-candidate-for-Israel-403172> >>> >>> AddThis Sharing Buttons >>> 62 >>> >>> Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey has never wandered far from Jews.[image: >>> Hilary Clinton] >>> >>> Hilary Clinton. (photo credit:REUTERS) >>> Share on Facebook Share on Twitter >>> >>> WASHINGTON – From the man who married her grandmother to the man who >>> married her daughter, from working a room full of bar mitzvah guests on >>> behalf of her husband’s political career to headlining major pro-Israel >>> events during her own, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey has never wandered >>> far from Jews. >>> >>> Clinton’s Jewish encounters have been a natural consequence of her East >>> Coast education, her trajectory in the party favored by a substantial >>> majority of Jewish-Americans, and her embrace of the Jewish narrative of >>> triumphing over adversity and bigotry, longtime friends of the 2016 >>> presidential candidate say. >>> >>> Be the first to know - Join our Facebook page. >>> <https://www.facebook.com/TheJerusalemPost> >>> >>> >>> Sara Ehrman, whose friendship with the Democratic front-runner dates >>> back more than four decades, told JTA that the Clintons, upon arriving in >>> Arkansas in the mid-1970s, quickly established ties with leaders of the >>> state’s tiny Jewish community. >>> >>> >>> “They were a smart, educated young couple … who had come down to this >>> wonderful little city,” said Ehrman, now 96, referring to Little Rock. “The >>> Jews gravitated to them. Among her best and most fervent supporters were >>> Jews.” >>> >>> The Clintons would attend seders at the homes of Jewish friends during >>> their Little Rock years, and in 1988 Bill Clinton as governor co-officiated >>> with Rabbi Zeke Palnick of Arkansas’ capital city at the Jewish wedding of >>> Richard and Sheila Bronfman. >>> >>> The Clintons are “both very spiritual and they tend to like to >>> experience different cultures around them,” Sheila Bronfman, who traveled >>> the country to campaign for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and for Hillary >>> Clinton in 2008. (Plans are underway for a road trip in advance of the 2016 >>> presidential election, she said.) >>> >>> >>> Ehrman, a longtime activist with the Democratic Party and with >>> pro-Israel groups, met Hillary Rodham during the 1972 George McGovern >>> presidential campaign. >>> >>> >>> “I went down to San Antonio to run south Texas for McGovern,” Ehrman >>> said of the Democratic nominee. “We were doing voter registration, >>> Mexican-Americans. I wanted a lawyer to make sure everything we did was >>> right. I called D.C., I said ‘You gotta send a lawyer down here.’ The next >>> day, a young woman comes in, she looks 19, all in brown with Coke-bottle >>> glasses. She said, ‘I’m Hilary Rodham, the lawyer.’ And everyone in the >>> room said, ‘We don’t want a girl, we want a real lawyer.’ We immediately >>> bonded as outsiders.” >>> >>> Two years later, Rodham was hired by the U.S. House of Representatives’ >>> Judiciary Committee to investigate President Nixon’s role in the Watergate >>> scandal. So she called Ehrman, asking whether she knew of cheap digs. >>> Ehrman invited her to bunk at her house, and Rodham agreed. >>> >>> After Nixon resigned, the two drove together from Washington, D.C., to >>> Fayetteville, where Bill Clinton was teaching law at the University of >>> Arkansas and where Rodham planned to join him. >>> >>> “All the way down, I would say, ‘Are you out of your mind? It’s a >>> godforsaken place, you can’t get decent food there, what are you going to >>> do?’” recalled Ehrman, speaking to JTA in her apartment on Embassy Row here. >>> >>> In Fayetteville, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham soon befriended another >>> law professor, Mort Gitelman. >>> >>> “They were both very happy to come to the bar mitzvah of my son, Eliot,” >>> Gitelman said in an email. >>> >>> Palnick’s son Lazar, who attended the bar mitzvah, remembers Hillary >>> Rodham and Bill Clinton working the room for political support. And when >>> his rabbi father would travel to Fayetteville for pastoral work, the >>> teenage Lazar would ride along to help leaflet neighborhoods in support of >>> Clinton, who would go on to lose his 1974 congressional bid to the >>> Republican incumbent. >>> >>> During Hillary Clinton’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign, Paul Fray, Bill >>> Clinton’s campaign manager in the ’74 race, told a writer that Hillary >>> Rodham, in a heated argument on election night as it became clear that >>> Clinton would be defeated, called Fray a “f***ing Jew bastard.” Both >>> Clintons have vehemently denied the charge, and noted that they had fallen >>> out with Fray after the campaign. They also said that they had no idea Fray >>> was one-eighth Jewish. >>> >>> A year after the loss, the couple were married by a Methodist minister >>> in their Fayetteville living room. The following year, Bill Clinton became >>> the state’s attorney general, and two years after that he was elected >>> governor of Arkansas. >>> >>> “I remember them coming for seder at our house,” said Lazar Palnick, now >>> a lawyer for the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania. “The Clintons fit very >>> much in with a group of people who cared about feeding the poor, educating >>> people, making sure everyone gets an opportunity.” >>> >>> Hillary Clinton’s maternal grandmother, Della, who was divorced, had >>> remarried a Jewish man, Max Rosenberg. And the presidential hopeful has >>> credited Rosenberg with encouraging her mother, Dorothy, and her >>> grandmother to reconcile years after Della sent Dorothy at age 8 to live >>> with her strict and forbidding parents. >>> >>> In her first autobiography, “Living History,” Hillary Clinton recalls, >>> when she was 10, noticing numbers tattooed on the arm of an acquaintance of >>> her father. Hugh Rodham explained that Nazis had tattooed his acquaintance >>> when he was a prisoner of war, and told her how the Nazis also tattooed >>> Jews, whom they murdered en masse. >>> >>> “I knew that my grandmother Della’s husband, Max Rosenberg, was Jewish, >>> and I was horrified that someone like him could have been murdered just >>> because of his religion,” Clinton wrote in 2003. >>> >>> By the time Bill Clinton was running for president in 1992, the youthful >>> governor and his wife had become favorites among Jewish Democrats. Ehrman >>> described a presidential campaign headquarters buzzing with Jewish >>> activists. >>> >>> “The Jews loved the Clintons so much, they were coming from around the >>> country,” she said. “If they couldn’t come, they would send food – the >>> whole staff would end up in the Jewish room because there were bagels from >>> New York, Danish pastries, Goldenberg’s peanut chews.” >>> >>> The “Jewish room” she describes refers to the area where Jewish >>> activists would congregate. >>> >>> Steve Rabinowitz, a campaign press aide who went on to become a deputy >>> communications director in the White House, recalls 100 people coming to a >>> Yom Kippur break-fast he organized in Little Rock during the campaign. >>> >>> The Jewish sensibility permeated the Clinton White House, where the >>> first couple inaugurated the annual Hanukkah party in 1993, in part because >>> of the abundance of Jewish staffers. They included communications chief Ann >>> Lewis, senior adviser Rahm Emanuel and Rabinowitz. There was Jack Lew, a >>> special assistant to President Clinton who would go on to become Treasure >>> secretary under President Barack Obama, and Ron Klain, the chief of staff >>> to Vice President Al Gore and now Obama’s Ebola czar. >>> >>> “I said, ‘You’re having a Christmas party, you’ve got to have a Hanukkah >>> party,’ ” Ehrman recalled. (Unlike the formal Hanukkah parties inaugurated >>> by President George W. Bush and continued by Obama, these were for staffers >>> and their families, although on occasion children from Washington-area >>> Jewish day schools made an appearance.) >>> >>> The Clintons’ first Israel visit, with a church group in 1981, also >>> included the West Bank. Approaching Bill Clinton’s presidential run in >>> 1992, they reached out to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and >>> AIPAC helped set up a meeting with Martin Indyk, a former staffer who >>> founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. The trio >>> hit it off — the meeting ran hours overtime as both Clintons peppered Indyk >>> with questions, according to a source who was present. Indyk went on to >>> become the U.S. ambassador to Israel and Clinton’s top Middle East peace >>> negotiator. >>> >>> Bill Clinton’s embrace of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the >>> Palestine Liberation Organization — initiated by the government of Israeli >>> Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin — further strengthened the couple’s ties to >>> national Jewish groups. Hillary Clinton’s eight years in the Senate >>> representing New York cemented those ties. Her pro-Israel advocacy included >>> exposing incitement in Palestinian media and helping to win full membership >>> for Magen David Adom in the International Committee of the Red Cross. She >>> also blamed the Palestinians, and not the Israelis, for the collapse of the >>> 2000 Camp David peace talks and the subsequent second intifada. >>> >>> Her advocacy followed the headline-making fallout from an appearance by >>> Hillary Clinton in 1999 at an event with Suha Arafat, the wife of the >>> Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Speaking in Arabic, Suha Arafat accused >>> Israel of poisoning Arab children. Clinton, ostensibly listening to a >>> translation on headphones, did not react and kissed Suha Arafat after her >>> remarks. Clinton claimed that she did not hear the reference to poisoning; >>> she noted that others in the room missed it, too. >>> >>> The subsequent tabloid attention rattled her, coming just as Clinton was >>> launching her Senate campaign, and helped shape the political caution that >>> has come to define her. >>> >>> “I had learned a hard lesson about the hazards of merging my role in the >>> international diplomatic arena with the complexities of local New York >>> politics,” she wrote in “Living History.” >>> >>> After winning the Senate seat in 2000, Clinton repeatedly secured the >>> Tuesday-morning slot at national Jewish conferences for AIPAC and the >>> Jewish Federations of North America, among others – a slot reserved for the >>> most respected pro-Israel figure in Congress. Clinton chose the annual >>> AIPAC conference in 2008 to concede the primaries to Obama. >>> >>> For her 2016 bid, Clinton has lined up pro-Israel funding powerhouses >>> who helped fuel her ’08 bid, like entertainment mogul Haim Saban, and has >>> added some of Obama’s most prominent Jewish bundlers, notably movie >>> executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. Lewis, the former White House communications >>> chief, leads her Jewish outreach. >>> >>> There were other alliances, less noticeable back in the 1990s, that >>> would also be consequential, at least personally. >>> >>> The 1992 election swept into Congress the largest class of Jewish >>> lawmakers ever, 51. Among them was Rep. Marjorie Margolies, D-Pa., who >>> served a single term before being ousted in the Republican takeover of the >>> House in ’94. Her opponents raised the issue of Margolies’ tie-breaking >>> vote in 1993 passing Bill Clinton’s unpopular tax bill. >>> >>> The Clintons, known for their loyalty to those who fall on their sword >>> for them, campaigned for Margolies in her 2014 congressional bid; she lost >>> in the primaries. Neither Hillary Clinton’s office nor Margolies responded >>> to requests for comment. >>> >>> Margolies’ son, Marc Mezvinsky, met the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, >>> when they were children at a political retreat, and fell in love when they >>> met again at Stanford University. At their wedding, co-officiating was >>> Rabbi James Ponet, the head rabbi at Yale. >>> >>> Ponet chatted only briefly with Hillary Clinton at the wedding, but got >>> to know her more recently at a memorial for the philanthropist Edgar >>> Bronfman. Ponet in an interview with JTA said Clinton spoke with >>> sensitivity about Bronfman’s efforts to make Swiss banks accountable for >>> Holocaust-era Jewish assets. >>> >>> “There’s a sense of foundational connection to the Jewish people and a >>> sense of the responsibility to the Jewish people in the world,” he said. >>> >>> Ponet also described a pre-wedding meeting with the young couple and >>> discussing the huppah. The rabbi advised the couple that any cloth with >>> meaning to the family could serve as a wedding canopy. >>> >>> “Marc said, ‘My bar mitzvah tallit, that could be used, but I don’t know >>> where it is’,” Ponet recalled. “Chelsea said, ‘I know where it is.’” >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 10:23:45 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: Description: cid:CD66A82E-16F6-4AB2-B004-0E3AB912D208] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> >>>> >>>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>>> www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __._,_.___ >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> Visit Your Group >>>> <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmczRlYjZnBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0Njk0ODM5MzE-> >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: Yahoo! 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