past 100 years) we can see that one major segment of the US population has busy double-dipping another segment through the feigning and collecting off of supposed victimization while perpetrating the very crimes they are claiming to be victims of (while exploiting them to the fullest for political and economic advantages). As for the slavery argument once it was valid, but no one alive today in America was either an actual slave or an actual slaveholder--this is argument is as dead as the crime itself. jayfree | 7.27.09 @ 11:26PM Florida Native | 7.27.09 @ 11:27PM To Larry on 7-24, You are DEAD ON about the Jewish support of Obama. I live in South Florida and for the life of me I cannot figure out the Jewish support for left-leaning liberal Democrats. Our legislature down here is infected with left-leaning Obama lovers and our Jewish population here just continues to vote them into office with nary a question. I don't get it, I really don't get it. Amazing article, Ben. Amazing in the sense that it's utterly unoriginal and could've been written by Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, or any other disingenuous neocon who says stupid things aimed at stupider people. Lest we forget that you were a GOP speechwriter in your day (before you became a useless fact regurgitator and a commentator who vomits talking points on Fox News (see: everything you said about our 'nonexistent' economic crisis)). It should explain why your essay reads like something that