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When John Edwards went to the Herzliya Conference in January of 2007 he said a passel of things Dick Cheney also says, stuff like "Israel should even be made a member of NATO" and the US - Israel relationship is "a bond that will never be broken" and "in order to ensure Iran never gets nuclear weapons, all options must remain on table" and ...

As if AIPAC was going to make him the Golden Boy and shower him, but not his primary competitors, or his general election competitor, with money.

You want to see Ralph Nader affect the '08 general, for real this time? Imagine him in Florida, reading the best of Uri Avnery's weekly columns for Gush Shalom to a demographic that cares about Jews and wants peace and a narrative other than mutual assured destruction. Imagine Nader talking about buying 500 million cubic meters/year of water from the Ceyhan and Seyhan rivers in Turkey and moving via a water project no grander than the California Aqueduct, to the Golan, the Jordan Valley, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. As an absurd plus, a sop to the insane, the canal is a tank barrier, preventing rapid movement by anything heavier than a flock of ducks, across the Golan.

If imagining Nader doing that, anywhere, but in particular in Florida and in particular this fall, or in Michigan, or in any other of the competitive states, makes one uncomfortable, how comfortable is knowing that no Democrat can substantively differ from Dick Cheney's script, or talk about clean drinking water and agriculture in a desert until "peace" has been achieved, through overwhelming military superiority

h/t to Alex at Josh Landis' SyriaComment for the Peace Canal Plan, and for those of you interested in Uri Averny's personal choice between the Hero Twins and Saint John, read TWO AMERICAS . Don't miss the paragraph

All three candidates have groveled at the feet of AIPAC. The fawning of all three before the Israeli leadership is disgusting. They all show a lack of integrity. But I know that they have no choice. That's how it is in the USA.

Then ask, what charge shall Democratic aparatchiks lay against Nader for not groveling at the feet of AIPAC, in Florida, and everwhere else that the 33 Day War is seen as a blunder the size of Texas. Just how many Floridians, more, or less, than 97,488, are convinced that Likud is not the Party of the Messiah?