Obama's Newbie Activists: Unloved By Insiders But Here To Stay

You should ask those more "seasoned" individuals, who there house is built to serve? Their own well being or the well being of the people of this country? Whether in the Republican or Democrat party, I've found that (with some exceptions in each of course) the established members of each organization are convinced of their own entitlement to lead and control things than they are of operating as an organization of free people acting together in the mass of people that make up the parties interests.

Both parties should lean towards the latter half in future or get more Liebermans and might as well be neocon / pseudodem types in your ranks.
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Say It Ain't Jew, Joe

A very effective PAC working in the US to advance the interests of the nation of Israel

* not the people of Israel as about half of Israelis believe the US aids Israel too much, which is saying alot.



You don't have to read conspiracy into it either, it's just a case of one country having a very effective lobbying organization that is getting what more than what it pays for from the US government. That lobbying organization is acting in the interests of hard line militarists in Israel. These folks want to stay in power indefinitely, apparently seeing that the best way to do that is to keep tension high in the region, peace is best kept short lived, military funding is perpetual and plentiful, and best of all we(the US) look like the bad guy.



Lieberman is a friend to them, at all costs it seems.



Contrast AIPAC with JStreet the latter being a more worthy lobbying group IMO. Essentially saying, perpetual shows of "strength" and ever escalating conflict is maybe not such a good idea, go figure.
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Meh, more code stuff this time, playing with Perl's FileHandle modules.

Code like:

1. #!/usr/bin/perl -w
   
   use FileHandle;
   my $ifh = new FileHandle;
   if ($ifh->open("< fee.txt")) {
       print <$ifh>;
       $ifh->close;
   }