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The cookie-cutter politics of Hillary-haters and anti-disengagement settlers?

The meta tags have since been changed, but not before Salon.com got the scoop on the cookie cutter quality of reclusive Republican slime-meister Arthur Finkelstein’s latest attempt to derail Hillary Clinton’s political aspirations, namely how they mirror a pre-existing Christian Zionist group against Sharon’s disengagement plan.
To break it down:
Arthur Finkelstein is the ultra-private and incredibly well-funded (and also gay married) Republican operative behind some of the slimiest political attacks in recent memory.
– Just after getting married to his longtime partner, he announced his personal campaign to stop Hillary Clinton’s 2006 Senate re-election bid (and by extension her 2008 presidential hopes).
– He recently launched StopHerNow.com, the web face of his attempt to raise $10 million to, umm… stop her now.
– Eagle-eyed visitors noticed the meta tags for StopHerNow.com seemed odd: “Stop Her Now is a collaboration of over 7,600 independent Baptist churches in America, who are against the deportation of Jews from Gush Katif in Gaza and Northern Samaria.” Say what?
– A quick search via Google revealed Yedidim of Israel, a site which looks remarkably similar to StopHerNow.com and includes the same meta tags.
StopHerNow.com has changed their meta tags, as far as I could see, but it does raise questions. Finkelstein has long-standing ties to right-wing Israeli causes, so this is not surprising in and of itself, but it seems quite lazy.
[IN ADDITION:] The animosity between Finkelstein and the Clintons extends to a rather disappointing episode where former President Bill Clinton called Finkelstein “sad” and “self-loathing” for essentially being a gay supporter of equal benefits and also being a dirty tricks Republican operative. Not that I don’t see the irony and potential hypocrisy, but I don’t know how I feel about Clinton playing the gay card (Finkelstein was outed by a magazine in Boston) and calling a Jew self-loathing for his politics. Read more here and here.

2 thoughts on “The cookie-cutter politics of Hillary-haters and anti-disengagement settlers?

  1. I missed any references in Bill Clinton’s comments about Finkelstein to the latter’s Jewishness.
    But anyway, secular Jews can be accused ad nauseum of self-hatred, for anything from idetifying more with Jewish cultural attributes than Judaism’s myriad theolgical underpinnings to recognizing the folly of maintaining and defending settlements in territories that no Israeli government over nearly 40 years has ever bothered to annex, but Bill Clinton astutely notes that it is ugly and pathetic for a gay man to profit handsomely from tireless efforts to prevent other gay couples from legally committing to the same responsibilities as any straight marriage and enjoying the same privileges that he and his husband have assumed upon their recent Massachusetts nuptials, and it is supposed to be “animosity” and “playing the gay card.” Who’s bullshitting who?

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