I agree with all three of your statements but they don't change my conclusion that Kushner's chances are better than people think. (Part of our disagreement stems from the fact that non orthodox Jews are not really Jews in many religious Jews eyes.)

Here's an idea. Somebody with actual diplomatic experience, somebody that's actually experienced in government, somebody who has fought and won incredibly tough battles in the political world. Somebody like that instead of Kushner might, just might have a better shot at success diplomatically.

Also it would probably have a better chance of success without 45* defunding the State Dept like a mad dog:
Trump wants to slash State Department budget by 28 percent, shift money to defense
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump...ry?id=46151210

You know Netanyahu isn't orthodox, right?

#whyamIrespondingtoatroll

Kushner is like Trump. He knows nothing about anything. He's rich but other rich people don't accept him into the old money cliques. That's why they are kindred spirits. And none of those are good reasons that either should be anywhere near anything government related. Unfortunately that is not the case.

It's odd isn't it? If I was POTUS and didn't give a **** about the job, I'd at least be looking at classified **** to see if aliens are real or who killed JFK. I sure as hell wouldn't be watching Fox and Friends and bitching about the person I beat in the general election.

Has there been a president this lazy? Just in pure laziness lying around and watching TV. GW Bush jumps out of airplanes in his spare time. Jimmy Carter builds houses. I bet Donny is annoyed the WH is so big. Probably has to walk 300 feet to take a piss every 45 minutes in the middle of the night.

You'd think the guy who literally wrote the book on poker would have fewer tells.

Do you mean ultra orthodox? In any case he is close enough if he thinks Jerusalem should have extra importance because of religious factors.

Please name even one right wing position that you think I hold?

All of them?

So it looks like they've pieced together the craziness that's been going around.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...at-s-confirmed

That's why Nunez had to go to the White House to meet with his 'source' instead of the info just being passed to him. It wasn't going through the normal channels, it was Flynn's protégé making an end run around the normal protocols to avoid this exact scenario, rogue intelligence people doing their own political agendas which create problems for the White House.

John Marshall goes a bit further than that

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...ieces-together

He hypothesizes that having Jared do his take your President's son-in-law to work day in Iraq was the military trying to get his ear and impress upon him away from Trump and Bannon. I guess we'll see.

That liberals should prejudge Muslims like conservatives.

Obviously you are joking. But sometimes I wonder whether people realize that I am in favor of things like gun control, gay marriage, a much higher top tax rate and lots of other stuff along those lines. I can't think of even one thing where I agree with right wingers. So name one please.

No I don't. You are confusing that with my stance that one should base probability evidence based on all statistical evidence. But then I go on to believe that small statistical differences should be ignored if there are good reasons to do so.

You never went hard at Trump pre election, and although I haven't been keeping up with threads lately I bet you haven't been complaining about him post election either. You indulged in made up scenarios where *surprise surprise* you concluded Trump just might be good for America (or surely not as bad as people were saying.) I dunno, man, you're suspect. Also, I'm Ron Burgundy?

But they haven't. Which brings us into the realm of sports betting of all things. The bookies line is so good that sports experts can't beat them. But the guy who has kept track of what each team has eaten the night before might just find an angle that gives him the best of it even if he barely knows the rules of the game.

You think government employees are very stoopid because they studied subjects other than STEM. If only more mathematicians were in high government office things would be so much better.

Here's a post that shows you support right wingers. You think people deserve to suffer.

lol....maybe!

lol i almost brought that up

No orthodox Jew I ever met considered me (an athiest) not to be a Jew. And I briefly lived in a Chabad House and I did a big consulting project for Chabad as well. Every time I met with the Rabbi he made me put on tefillin. Every morning at the Chabad House they tried to get me to come to minyan. And now in the solar business in LA a lot of the people I do business with are Israeli and they all think I'm as Jewish as Moses.

Bibi's wiki says he was raised secular and raised his kids secular.

Slightly exaggerated but true. I was persuaded to have this stance by Sean Hannity and several Evangelical Christians. So I guess you are right after all.

Wow I feel like Gary Hart when he challenged people to prove he was a philanderer. Big mistake. I have been unmasked.

Unmasked?

RV Life = Susan Rice?

It appears that Orrin Hatch said that all democrats are stupid. For the second time. I'm adding him to my list of completely deplorable humans.