<div dir="ltr">Not germane or relevant. What's at stake here is diplomacy with Iran.<div><br></div><div><legend style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px 6px;line-height:1.1;font-size:1.4em;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:'IM Fell English',serif;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase">POLL</legend><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;line-height:20.2222232818604px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-stretch:normal;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif">The speech should be postponed. If it's not postponed, Democrats shouldn't go.</p><table id="tb1807720" class="" cellspacing="0" summary="Daily Kos Poll" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px;width:461.111114501953px;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4"><tr class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;width:461.111114501953px"><td style="padding:4px 4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.4;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif"></td><td class="" style="padding:4px 4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.4;width:416.006958007813px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif"><label for="po_1807720" id="a1" style="margin:10px 0px 2px 4px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(112,109,90);display:inline;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold">Agree</label></td></tr><tr class="" id="pr_1807720" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4"><td class="" style="padding:0px 10px 4px 0px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(244,244,244);font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif">95%</td><td class="" style="padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:2px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(244,244,244);font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif;background-image:url(http://images2.dailykos.com/images/admin/Thermometer17.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;font-weight:bold">162 votes</span></td></tr><tr class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;width:461.111114501953px"><td style="padding:4px 4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.4;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif"></td><td class="" style="padding:4px 4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.4;width:416.006958007813px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif"><label for="po_1807720" id="a2" style="margin:10px 0px 2px 4px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(112,109,90);display:inline;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold">Disagree</label></td></tr><tr class="" id="pr_1807720" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4"><td class="" style="padding:0px 10px 4px 0px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(244,244,244);font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif">4%</td><td class="" style="padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:2px;line-height:1.4;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(244,244,244);font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif;background-image:url(http://images2.dailykos.com/images/admin/Thermometer17.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;font-weight:bold">7 votes</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;line-height:20.2222232818604px;font-size:13px;color:rgb(36,36,36);text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.4;font-weight:bold">169</span> votes</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu" target="_blank">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Of course, President Obama should be humiliated - for terrorism via drones, death squads ("special forces") active in 105 countries (actions include murder, kidnapping - "rendition" - and torture), and war crimes from Somalia to Ukraine.<br>
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On Feb 5, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> "If any doubt remains that Speaker Boehner's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress on March 3 represents a coordinated attack on President Obama by the right-wing noise machine, let Israel's consul general in Philadelphia, Yaron Sideman, put it to rest."<br>
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> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/israeli-consul-supporters_b_6625260.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/israeli-consul-supporters_b_6625260.html</a><br>
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> The speech should be postponed. If it's not postponed, Democrats shouldn't go.<br>
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> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/05/1362599/-Israeli-Consul-Supporters-of-Bibi-s-Speech-Want-to-Humiliate-President-Obama" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/05/1362599/-Israeli-Consul-Supporters-of-Bibi-s-Speech-Want-to-Humiliate-President-Obama</a><br>
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> Robert Naiman<br>
> Policy Director<br>
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> <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
> <a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
> <a href="tel:%28202%29%20448-2898%20x1" value="+12024482898">(202) 448-2898 x1</a><br>
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