How soon we forget!

     

hy·poc·ri·sy (/hiˈpäkrisē/)

Noun The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

     

      During the last presidential campaign, Willard M. Romney castigated Democrats in general and Barack Obama in particular, for the (Dem.) platform's omission of language specifically supporting Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.   Romney also  accused the President of throwing Israel “under the bus", while former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty said Obama had made a “mistaken and very dangerous demand.”  How soon we forget!  Both parties have, through the years, generally held much the same positions on Israel, that it is up to Israel and the Palestinians to decide Jerusalem's final status, essentially a neutral position.

         Imagine, if you will, Republican reaction to the President  saying  this: "The other party's position (platform language declaring Jerusalem Israel's capital)  is dishonest." "To make Jerusalem the capital of Israel is not the platform of a major American political party, that is what I find so revolting here."  Or try this, the Secretary of State, reviewing the opposition party's policy on Israel says, "Then all out on Israel, I mean in a really nauseating way...in a degree of detail you know, Jerusalem should be the capital, direct negotiations between the parties, nauseating detail. I mean, this is a disgrace, this was written by a bunch of cynical amateurs."   Then imagine then President responding, " To be all out on Israel - isn't that something though? that is so dishonest. Well, it shows you what we have to contend with, and it also shows the necessity for us to be in good shape, because these people (the other party) are so revolting that they have to be smashed!"    

          Well, boys and girls, the above conversation did take place;  not between President Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton or John Kerry or any other Democrat. Although Republicans, desperately split on many issues, are grasping at the Israel issue to castigate the President, they would do well to recall their own party's leaders, and the positions they established for their party.

          Richard Nixon and SecState Henry Kissinger (himself Jewish)  had the above  conversation in the oval office in June of 1972.  Once again Nixon's taping system, installed and upgraded to "preserve his legacy" does much more to reveal the man's inner mental pathology.  Along the way, it also reveals the pathetic specter of Henry Kissinger, whom Nixon referred to as his "Jew Boy" (again those damned tapes) fawning over a borderline sociopath who cared little for the man, but needed his imprimatur on foreign policy.

Bless their hearts.