No words.

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This is the guy who played the courageous Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies?!

It looks like he is becoming the Joker.

I’m just surprised he didn’t pull out this quote for describing Romney:

And still on the subject of Obama and Batman:

This summer’s much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is getting an unusual boost from Democrats and other foes of Mitt Romney who are eager to tie the Gotham crushing villain to the GOP presidential candidate. Their angle: the mask-wearing, “Venom” gas breathing bad guy has a name that sounds just like Romney’s former investment firm that President Obama has been blasting as a jobs killer.

“Bane” is the terrorist in the new movie who drives the caped crusader out of semi-retirement in the final Batman movie. Democrats, who believe they have Romney on the ropes over the president’s assault on his leadership at Bain Capital, said the comparisons are too rich to ignore.

“It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood,” said Democratic advisor and former Clinton aide Christopher Lehane. “Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society,” he added.

As the Friday release date has neared, liberal blogs were the first to connect Batman’s toughest foe with Romney’s firm. But now even some conservatives, concerned Romney isn’t fighting the Bain attacks hard enough, see a similarity in the epic DC Comics fight and the political campaign.

Conservative commentator Jed Babbin told Secrets, “Now we have the new Batman movie with super-villain Bane, the comic book bad guy who broke the Bat’s back. How long will it take for the Obama campaign to link the two, making Romney the man who will break the back of the economy? Romney can’t win if he’s constantly on the defensive,” he said.

Even GOP advisor Frank Luntz jumped into the fray. “Hollywood does it again,” he told Secrets. “[Romney] had to know all this was coming and he should have done a lot more to prepare for it.”

But conservative analyst Greg Muller doesn’t buy the connection or the Bain attacks. “Democrats are truly living in fantasy land if they think the Bain story is anything more than a little summertime blues for Romney,” he said. “The election will be a referendum on Obama socialism and the Obama economy. Wonder if the Batmobile was made in China.”

Democratic strategist Karl Frisch suggests a Romney comparison instead to Mr. Burns, the devilish nuclear power plant owner on the Simpsons. “The similarities are endless.”

Oops. Wrong video. My bad.

I am trying to track down the PA President’s video message but it doesn’t actually seem to exist.

Do the opposite of Obama.

Mitt Romney told evangelical Christians that he’ll do “the opposite” of what President Obama has done in dealing with Israel.

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Asked about the president’s attitude towards Israel, the Republican presidential hopeful said: “Well, I think by in large you could just look at the things the president’s done and do the opposite.”

 Reminds me of this:

Bonus: He’s pro-Israel!

As this week’s AIPAC Policy Conference demonstrated, finding American politicians who support Israel isn’t exactly difficult.

Finding pro-Israel politicians who were born in Jordan? Also possible — at least if you live in New Jersey.

Bader Qarmout, a Republican currently running for the US Senate, recently told the New Jersey Jewish News that Israel deserves considerable leeway in its relationship with the Palestinians. “I believe negotiation of that detail has to be hammered out by both parties,” he said of a potential Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. “If Israel said, ‘This is something we have to do,’ I would respect that. If Israel said, ‘This is not something we could do and exist with a group that is building missiles close to us,’ I have to respect that.”

An Arab Christian who works in real estate and education, Qarmout moved to the US as an 8-year-old. His campaign website says of his family background, “Being Christians in any Arab nation isn’t easy.”

The website devotes a special section to what it calls “the only stable democracy in the Middle East.”

“If Israel wants peace and the Palestinians want the destruction of the Jewish state, then peace is impossible . . . Both sides must love their children more than territories,” Qarmout writes. He later adds, “As a sovereign nation, Israel should not ask for the right to defend itself. Israel does not need anyone’s permission to exist.”
While that will surely be music to the ears of many New Jersey residents, Qarmout’s Senate run faces long odds — he’s a clear underdog in the Republican primary, set for June 5. Recent polls show that even the GOP front-runner, State Sen. Joseph Kyrillos, would get creamed in a general election against incumbent Robert Menendez, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Like any smart politician, Qarmout sees no reason Jews shouldn’t support his candidacy. “I would like my Jewish brethren to see me as an American more than anything else because my solutions are geared toward a unified America,” he says.

More here and here.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has sent a letter declaring his intent to run for Congress in New Jersey’s newly formed 9th District.

Boteach sent the letter of intent to the offices of the Bergen County Republican Organization by the Jan. 31 deadline but has not decided definitively to run, the New Jersey Jewish Standard reported.

He would face the winner of the Democratic primary between US Reps. Steve Rothman and Bill Pascrell. Two other potential Republican candidates also have submitted letters of intent, according to the PolitickerNJ website.

Boteach told the Jewish Standard that one of the factors that will go into his decision of whether to run will be how much money he can raise for the race. He said he will make up his mind in the next two months.

He told the newspaper that he wants to “bring Jewish values into the political discourse.”

Wasn’t he supposed to supposed to be the next Chief Rabbi of England or something?

In the meantime, his mention of bringing values into the political discourse has inspired me to make a contribution.

 Yeah, I’m not a fan.

Shortly after the photo-op meeting and “working lunch” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that saw President Obama openly chastised by the Prime Minister for Obama’s earlier public comments regarding wanting to see Israel return to its 1967 borders, the president verbally “went off” on Richard Daley in the private study area that adjoins the Oval Office. President Obama’s verbal attack was clearly heard by numerous staff up and down the West Wing hallways.

The essence of the president’s rage and embarrassment can best be summed up with him yelling out very loudly, “What the f-ck was that!?” That phrase was apparently repeated a number of times in the span of about five minutes, a time period in which Obama’s voice became “louder and louder” and culminating in Obama exclaiming, “Never again! Do you understand me? Never again!” Any response by Bill Daley back to the president, if given, was not overheard.

Sounds like Obama could have do with a chill pill. Or even something else.

Unless I am reading into things, and his reference to “Never again” meant to convey his disapproval of the notion he would ever suggest Israel return to the Auschwitz lines.

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. A worshipper shouts anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans as he holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Friday prayers in Tehran April 16, 2010. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST)

Surely it should be obvious to you all that the Iranian regime is demonizing Israel and the US to deflect attention from the sad state of their country’s dental care.