“Having more or less assured his old pal Bibi and his new pal Sheldon that he wouldn’t mind if the Israelis took matters into their own hands and launched a military strike on Iran’s nuclear-research installations, what better way to whip up more support among conservative American Jews than by getting into a spat with the Palestinians?
In this way, and in others, the U.S. Presidential election is coming to resemble a local race in New York or Florida. What next? Will Romney fly back to Israel and visit a settlement? Will he persuade his wife to pull her horse Rafalca out of the Olympics dressage contest on the grounds that the International Olympic Committee refused to hold a minute of silence for the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinian Black September group at the 1972 Munich Olympics? Will the Mittster refuse to attend the Games himself?”
In this way, and in others, the U.S. Presidential election is coming to resemble a local race in New York or Florida. What next? Will Romney fly back to Israel and visit a settlement? Will he persuade his wife to pull her horse Rafalca out of the Olympics dressage contest on the grounds that the International Olympic Committee refused to hold a minute of silence for the eleven Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinian Black September group at the 1972 Munich Olympics? Will the Mittster refuse to attend the Games himself?”
— Interesting questions for Mitt. [The New Yorker]
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