David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony- and Oscar-nominated playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. His latest book is “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture” (Sentinel).
To those Jews planning to vote for Obama:
Are you prepared to explain to your childrennot the principles upon which your vote is cast, but its probable effects upon them?
Irrespective of your endorsement of liberal sentiments, of fairness and “more equal distribution,” will you explain to your children that top-down economic policies will increasingly limit their ability to find challenging and well-paid work, and that the diminution in employment and income will decrease their opportunity to marry and raise children?
Will you explain (as you have observed) that a large part of their incomes will be used to fund programs that they may find immoral, wasteful and/or indeed absurd? And that the bulk of their taxes go to no programs at all, but merely service the debt you entailed on them?
Will you tell your children that a liberal government will increasingly marginalize, dismiss and weaken the support for and the safety of the Jewish state?
Will you tell them that, in a state-run economy, hard work may still be applauded, but that it will no longer be rewarded?
Will you explain that whatever their personal beliefs, tax-funded institutions will require them to imbibe and repeat the slogans of the left, and that, should they differ, they cannot have a career in education, medicine or television unless they keep their mouths shut?
Will you explain to them that it is impossible to make a budget, and that the basic arithmetic we all use at the kitchen table is not practiced at the federal and state level, and to suggest that it should be is “selfishness?”
Most importantly, will you teach them never to question the pronouncements of those in power, for to do so is to risk ostracism?
Are you prepared to sit your children down and talk them through your vote on the future you are choosing for them?
Please remember that we have the secret ballot and, should you, on reflection, vote in secret for a candidate you would not endorse in public, you will not be alone.
These are questions that everyone intending to vote for Obama should ask themselves before they pull the lever for him.
That is hilarious, considering that Israel is a commie paradise compared to the US. The top marginal tax rate is 45-48% the corprate tax rate i 24%, they have universal health care, and compulsory military service
Mamet wrote the script for Ronin and Wag The Dog, two excellent movies, and I respect him greatly, but I wonder what he’s been drinking lately.
That might be funny if you haven’t become such a leftist stooge and we were actually talking about Israel…but we aren’t we are talking about Jewish voters in the US, voting for a US president. What Israel is or is not has nothing to do with his comments.
We are talking about Jewish voters who want us to support their socialist state, Utah,you right-wing goon.
::: sniff sniff :::
You shower? Sure smells like sh*t around here.
Wow, talk about moving a debate forward, Augger, you are definitely the ‘number two’ man in the game.
“Wow, talk about moving a debate forward, Augger, you are definitely the ‘number two’ man in the game.”
I am just thankful that I do not have to stand behind you.
One day, you will consolidate your positions, and you will not be in such of a conundrum (as I pointed out in your recent thread addition).
Then … we can talk seriously.
A man with no contradictions is a boring fellow, Augger. A man who does not question his own beliefs from time to time is unwise. A man who cannot change his mind based on new knowledge is a fool.
Well hen I am unwise, and a fool. But at least I do not spend all day playing with myself.
No, you play with others, until the Nitrous starts to wear off.
I expected better from you. That was weak. And here I thought we had some good ‘wrasslin’ going.
no longrer
Yeah now that’s what I’m talking about… like the good old NH days. But Greg is …. well Greg.
Out looking for revenge…..
I do not understand how Oblamer could get (1) ONE vote from a Jewish American.
Because the Jewish people know that the meme that Obama isn’t going to support Israel is bogus, FC. Don’t buy into the myth.
Here is the Jewish response…. oh my
Daddy, my son showed me that youtube clip!
Sweet M., didn’t you post that article on Mamet: http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-03-11/news/why-i-am-no-longer-a-brain-dead-liberal/full