Benjamin Netanyahu declares victory; ‘Is it a violation of the Logan Act’ to congratulate him?

Congratulations to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and to Israel.

And to all others who stand against evil.

So, how’d that election tampering work out for you, Barack? Too bad we squandered taxpayer money so you could play your little power games, but still great news for Israel.

@Greg:

Has anyone got any evidence of that?

Actually “everyone” well, except you.

There really is an American who turned the Israeli election,

I suspect Senator Cotton helped out also.

@Greg: Well actually Greg, the administration has admitted it, just lied about it being directed against Netanyahu. However, since Obama’s liar squad assisted the opposition, the facts (for anyone interested in seeing them) are clear.

@Greg:

nor is there any evidence that proves it took place.

No evidence? Name the top 5 persons in Obama’s last reelection campaign team and tell me where they were for the last 2 weeks. Once you’ve supplied that answer you will answered your own quesiton. Proof, you want it, list those persons and their whereabouts.

I’ll help you out: just google ‘obama’s reelection team in Israel” that’ll get you to the right spot.

@Pete:you asked Greg:

Do you realize how you beclown yourself?

He is way beyond that. If there is one person that is not taken seriously on this blog, it would be Greg. He has no original thoughts of his own, he buys the lib line, hook, line and sinker. He never has the answer to any questions. We tolerate him for the laughs we get from him.

@Greg:

Ted Cruz’s allegation is that Obama sent them on a paid errand, and that they were paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Bullshit. Absolutely no evidence has been presented that this is so.

OK, so let’s look at this. Obama says that he won’t meet with Netanyahu in Washington because he does not want to appear to be influencing the Israeli election. OK, hold on to that for a moment.

Name the top 5 persons in Obama’s last reelection campaign team and tell me where they were for the last 2 weeks.

Now, you might even be so honest to admit that this itself might look just a bit suspicious, particularly given the relationship Obama has gone out of his way to foster with Netanyahu.

So, if Obama was concerned that the US government might (might, mind you) appear to be trying to influence the Israeli election by merely carrying out a function of State by meeting with the head of a state that happens to be an ally, would it not be just a little bit prudent to exercise some wisdom about the participation of practically his own entire personal campaign team actively campaigning (with money his administration provided) AGAINST Netanyahu?

And you see nothing incriminating or even suspicious in this.

Right.

Of course, just as Gullible Greggie refuses to talk about the violations of the Logan Act committed by Hanoi John Kerry and Teddy (the Swimmer) Kennedy, he will never mention these two words: Jeremy Bird.

Jeremy Bird was the field director for Obama in South Carolina in 2008. Obama and Hillary were running neck and neck in S.C. but Bird, another Harvard grad, hit the ground running and by primary day, Obama tromped Hillary in S.C.

Bird was then off and running again, organizing for Obama in 2012 and being rewarded by being appointed Obama’s national field director. Again, a win and a notch on Birds’ gun.

But Bird had other fish to fry on the orders of his boss, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

Wendy Davis was going to be the Democrat darling who was going to turn Texas blue. Shortly before her infamous filibuster, she received calls from both Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. and Nancy Pelosi. Enter Battleground Texas to help Abortion Barbie win the governor’s office. And who headed Battleground Texas? Oh, my, Jeremy Bird. Raising money, getting soldiers on the ground to go door to door asking people to place Wendy Davis signs in their yards, Bird’s Battleground Texas was so close to Davis they even shared office space with Davis’ campaign headquarters. But Bird was not to know the success he knew in South Carolina. Davis got tromped worse than any Democrat running for governor against a Republican than any Democrat has since 1994. Even the former Houston mayor, Bill White, who drove Houston deep into debt, had taken more votes in the gubernatorial election than Davis did. That was November, 2014.

In December 2014 it was announced that Israel would hold elections. By January, 2015 Bird was in Israel being sent there to organize Victory 2015, an anti-Netanyahu organization. Just as Battleground Texas was a major fail for Bird, so was Battleground Israel.

Bird, a virulent hater of Israel, is, and has been for 7 years, an Obama insider and an Obama operative. And for Gullible Greggie to try to claim that Obama had nothing to do with the attempt to unseat Netanyahu is simple bullshit (to quote Gullible Greggie)>

@retire05, #16:

Bird, a virulent hater of Israel, is, and has been for 7 years, an Obama insider and an Obama operative.

Are you suggesting that Israelis who didn’t vote for Netanyahu are virulent haters of Israel? Bird was advising candidates who are also Israelis. Bibi, as republicans like to call him, is not Mr. Israel. His political opponents are not anti-Israel. They also believe they’re acting in Israel’s best interests. Where the hell do you get off, making such accusations?

And what don’t you understand about political consulting businesses? They’re businesses that consult in connection with political campaigns. Do you imagine they don’t exist or aren’t employed on the political right? Do you think Netanyahu’s campaign employed none?

@Greg:

Bird was advising candidates who are also Israelis.

And your point? Hell, half the Frankfurt Marxist were Jewish.

Where the hell do you get off, making such accusations?

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution. A document you should spend some time reading.

And what don’t you understand about political consulting businesses? They’re businesses that consult in connection with political campaigns.

And what don’t you understand that it is ILLEGAL for U.S. citizens to interfere in the elections of foreign nations?

“Jeremy Bird, the Team Obama community organizing campaign wizard, has come far from his early midwestern roots. He is currently ensconced in a tiny office in Tel Aviv, working to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming March elections through the V15 campaign vehicle of the Peaceworks Network Foundation.

Bird was born in a small town in Missouri, and attended Wabash College in Indiana.

But small town boys can become big time operatives, particularly after spending time in that hothouse of hubris, Harvard University. Bird attended Harvard’s Divinity School from 2000 until 2002, where he encountered Big Ideas and learned he could do Big Things.

While in Cambridge, Bird came under the wing of Edmund Hanauer, a bilious defamer of Israel. In 1972, Hanauer founded Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel. Hanauer firmly believed that Israel was able to “disregard international law, human rights and democratic values” because of the amount of U.S. aid it received.

On Feb. 25, 2002, while Bird was working with him, Hanauer penned an op-ed which ran in the Milwaukee Sentinel, “The Double Standard Must End.”

The loathing for Israel is woven through his words, even as he used a tagline with an invaluable hecksher: “Edmund Hanauer, American Jewish political scientist.”

In that op-ed, which ran just days before Bird appeared with Hanauer at a Bash Israel event at Harvard – more on that in a moment – Bird expresses outrage that President Bush condemned Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s actions as “terrorism,” while failing to similarly demand that “Sharon stop Israeli state terrorism.” That is what Hanauer considered the evil American double standard. He called it “selectively” defining terrorism.”

Hanauer, although Jewish by heritage, hated Israel. And he was Birds’ mentor.

Now you can sputter and spew all the bullshit you want, but it doesn’t eliminate the fact that Jeremy Bird IS an Obama operative just as James Carville IS a Clinton operative.

And you’re ever the idiot. And a disgrace to the nation you call home.

@retire05, #19:

And what don’t you understand that it is ILLEGAL for U.S. citizens to interfere in the elections of foreign nations?

Nope, that’s not my understanding at all. It doesn’t seem to be Sheldon Adelson’s understanding, either.

What a private U.S. citizen may say or do in connection with foreign elections depends on the laws of the nation in question.

I generally have trouble locating non-existent laws. Perhaps you would provide a link to the applicable U.S. code or statute.

@retire05: i’m quite sure he won’t get that.

@Greg:

It’s a business.

Oh, it’s a business, alright. It’s the business of destroying people that will not cosign to the “grand vision” of the genius Obama. Again, were Obama actually concerned with the appearance that the US was interfering, he would have intervened and stopped Bird and his flock from fighting against Netanyahu. Add to that the fact that Obama will not call Netanyahu, an ally and congratulate him. Poor loser, perhaps?

270 Strategies has done nothing illegal by providing political consulting services to V15, which hired them for that purpose.

Entities with tax exempt status are not supposed to be supporting a particular party or ideology, are they? Where is the IRS harassing them?

Wake up, Greg. Just wake the f___ up.

@Greg:

There’s no such law, is there?

Greg is admitting he DOESN’T know?

Ted CruzGullible Greg doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but that doesn’t keep him from talking.

fixed that. Now he’s right.