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Welcome Authors
Rachel Kramer Bussel
&
Stephanie Klein
who are posting all week.
Coming up:
  • 01/12:
    Bob Morris
  • 01/12:
    Lily Koppel
  • 01/19:
    Peter Manseau
  • 02/09:
    Tania Grossinger

 David Toube: If I Could Vote, It'd Be For...

David Toube: If I Could Vote, It'd Be For...

Foreign Journalists Pick Their Candidate
David Toube
 
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Jewcy recently asked a select group of foreign writers we admire to state which candidate they'd vote for if they could, and why. David Toube blogs at Harry's Place.

The prospect of Obama in the White House is hugely preferable to an unwell man whose vice president is a Creationist. I am attracted by Obama's determination to extend the prosecution of the fight against jihadism beyond the frontiers of Afghanistan and Iraq.



 

Rob


"I am attracted by Obama's determination to extend the prosecution of the fight against jihadism beyond the frontiers of Afghanistan and Iraq"

 If you believe that David, perhaps you will be attracted to the lovely bridge in Brooklyn I have to sell you for 10 quid.

Nevertheless, Senator Obama's penchant for threatening our allies rather than own enemies mean that the frontiers may extend to Finsbury Square  and Bradford, UK  since those areas are becoming the new center of Islamic British culture.

Cheers mate, our should I say as a nod to the future of Britian, "Salam malaikum.

 





matan

matan


Rob, there may be some truth in what you say. However, much as I hate to be picky, Finsbury Square and Finsbury Park are worlds apart. It's Finsbury Park where your concerns extend to, not Finsbury Square where the greatest threat will come from a drunken banker in a strop about having his bonus cut...




Levitt8

Levitt8


Are the British standing by while attacks are being launched from their country?

 Nope.  Try again.