J O S H U A P U N D I T: Watcher's Council Nominations, 7/29/08

Once again,it's time for a tasty slice of some of the best of the blogosphere, the Watcher's Council.

Every week, the Watcher's Council members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. As you know, our infamous leader,the Watcher of Weasels retired and is now our leader emeritus. Last week, the Council was hosted by the one and only Soccer Dad . This week, the Council is being hosted by none other than my friend Ms. Bookworm at Bookworm Room and a full list of entries can be found there.

The winners will be announced Friday...along with a special announcement regarding the future of the Council.

So, let's see what we have this week:

Council:

1. Joshua Pundit: “Ich Bin Ein Beginner!” - Barack Obama,obviously looking to soak up some of John F. Kennedy's mojo made what was billed as a major speech in Germany during his world tour.

What I found most interesting about all this was one line in the speech where Obama referred to himself as 'a citizen of the world', the setting, and a little something that happened away from the cameras that was quite revealing....

2.The Razor: Here’s my response to Jack Markell’s commercial-Scott takes exception to Delaware's governor wanna-be and posts a video response.

3. Done With Mirrors: Us and Them - Callimachus makes a great point about the difference between America and the 7th century barbarians whom are our enemies. I would also have responded to the aptly named Good Democrat by reminding him that America more closely resembles the Roman Republic today than the Roman Empire. Although that may change if weasels like Good Democrat continue to abuse their freedoms to attempt to undermine our Republic.

4. Wolf Howling: Stop The Destruction of Our Environment — Drill Now - GW goes greenie on us..and makes a nice satirical point while doing it.

5. Soccer Dad: Hating israel more than loving palestinians - I hoped he'd nominate this one. This week, Soccer Dad takes on an abysmally stoo-pid column by the New York Time's favorite terrorist appeaser, Nicholas Kristof.

Kristof's prescription for Middle East peace is a simple one: the US should practice what he calls 'tough love' to force those stubborn Jews back to what Abba Eban famously called the Auschwitz lines ( AKA the pre-1967 borders) and re-divide Jerusalem to give the Palestinians a second Arab state with the premise that doing so will somehow create a dynamic for peace throughout the region.

Kristof and people like him are genuinely buying into the racist argument that Jews should be prohibited from living in certain places simply because they're Jews and supporting the ethnic cleansing of Jews from half of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, something they would be screaming bloody murder about if the Jews decided to do the same to the Arabs in Israel.

Furthermore, the idea that forcing Israel back to strategically insecure borders while they're surrounded by genocidal enemies will not only fail to 'solve' the Arab-Israeli conflict,but will exacerbate it and endanger the survival of Israel itself as these enemies would be encouraged to move in for the great jihad against the Jews. And since the Israelis are unlikely to go peacefully to their own extermination ( this time, the Jews are actually armed) Israel would be forced to use extremely desperate measures to destroy their enemies. Which, of course, Kristof and his ilk will likewise scream bloody murder about .

6. Cheat-Seeking Missiles: An Awful Idea for Renaming a Perfectly Good Mountain - Laer chronicles the effrort to name a California mountain after radical 'environmentalist' David Brower. *Sigh*..ah, California!

7. The Colossus of Rhodey: And Phil Gramm got grief? How come? - Hube disagrees with the flak McCain campaign adviser Phil Gramm got for his 'nation of whiners' remarks,and provides a few lovely examples of what he's talking about.

What it comes down to, of course is that there is a certain portion of the American electorate that has utterly embraced a culture of dependency, and they will need to be weaned from it slowly if at all. Best not to highlight that in an election year though.

8. The Glittering Eye: Ooh-ooh-ooooh! - Our own Dave Schuler impersonates a schoolboy with a ready answer in the classroom to the question posed by USA Today:“Why can’t Obama admit the obvious? The surge worked.”

Dave provides his usual fine tooth analysis in answering that question,as well as what the answer entails.

9. Rhymes With Right: Obama Desecrates Holiest Site In Judaism - Greg has a fine post which I linked to earlier this week on the use of the Kotel ( Israel's Western Wall) as what amounted to a campaign rally site by Obama and his followers during his brief sojourn in Israel. Absolutely astounding.

10. Hillbilly White Trash: China - This week Lemuel examines what he regards as the challenge of China to US status as a world power.

11. Bookworm Room: Nobody here but us biased chickens - For her piece this week, Ms. bookworm focuses on the Los Angeles Times ( or as Larry Elder refers to it, 'the Democrat Times') biased coverage on Barack Obama and their lame attempt to defend themselves for their total lapse of journalistic ethics.