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Report: Biden torpedoed Pollard's pardon
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 01.10.11, 23:32
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1. Iet Pollard go!
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.01.11)
2. hey joe
bari ,   nyc usa   (10.01.11)
not that i did the first time but over my dead body would i vote for you!
3. if he was a democrat.....
Robert ,   farmington,wv   (10.02.11)
If pollard was a democrat , and they thought he would vote for them in 2012 pollard would be released tomorrow. i have no respect for biden , never had , never will , he's not my Vice president. I did not vote for this , I'm a victim
4. prisoner of Zion
observer ,   Egypt   (10.02.11)
pidyon shuvyim (ransom of a captive Jew) is a priority amongst Jewish values.
5. Joe!!! I didn't know you had it in you. Go Joe!
seadog1946 ,   Arthur Kill, NJ   (10.02.11)
6. LETS TALK ABOUT THE WORST!!!!
Robert ,   farmington,wv   (10.02.11)
We always talk about the worst president , lets talk about the worst vp ever in americans history , not only he's the worst but he's also a loonie Obama would do good to distance himself from this guy. this guy is anti-israel bigtime , makes Obama look like a angel. listen to the things this guy says half the time it makes no sense. no wonder Obama never lets him speak.
7. 25 years is enoug !!!!
dr. talkback   (10.02.11)
8. Hostile country spies causing major damage get light
Bye Biden ,   US   (10.02.11)
sentencing, but the best ally gets info about sadam husseins wmd's from the 80's....and he gets life? Get rid of Joe
9. Pollard
Mark Ayres ,   Los Angeles   (10.02.11)
He betrayed his country. He should do his time.
10. Finally
Concerned American ,   USA   (10.02.11)
At a boy, Biden. Finally an United States politician with BIG Cahonas. We should have made you the president instead of the current wimpy a$$ we have at the white house.
11. Biden...
Jennie ,   Israel/US   (10.02.11)
Take a good look at his face and listen to the words of this clown...To him the White House is like a stage of "Saturday Night Live"... In all the almost 4 years, Biden has not expressed a logical thought or uttered a coherent sentence... I believe, that the refusal of obama to release Polard after 25 years of solitary confinement for a crime, that should not have been punished so harshly, will cost Obama a whole lot of Jewish votes..And not only Jewish, but many votes of Americans, who are familiar with the details of this case...
12. Joe how stupid can you be?
Mike ,   Philadelphia, PA usa   (10.02.11)
Obama "pro -israel speech was only because of congressional pressure. They send Joe to talk to Rabbi's to lure misguided jews to follow BO.? He trashes Pollard, says he should stay in jail for life. Duh Joe, thats the issue? Murderers in the US and Israel get out of jail even before 25 years. Joe, you just again proved why, democrats can not be in the white house after 2012. I guess Joe forgot who he was talking to.
13. #3, Oh Yes You Did Vote For This!
David H ,   Marietta USA   (10.02.11)
I hope you are happy with your choice.
14. Travesty!
(10.02.11)
If anyone thought that Joe Biden represented the "friendlier" face of the current administration, apparently he is out to prove that he can be worse for Israel and American Jews than Obama. It is nothing less than a travesty that Pollard is still in prson after 25 years. Without mitigating the severity of his actions, it cannot be emphaized enough that he has paid the price, indeed a far higher orice than any others convicted of similar offences. Dare one say blatant "anti-Semitism"?
15. Biden sucks
tsip ,   usa   (10.02.11)
end of story
16. In my opinion -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (10.02.11)
teason/spying should be punished by death. This move from Obama is only for voting reasons, and that is disgusting to me. Arn.Sweden,
17. they play the bad cop and the good cop but Obama is the boss
FreePollardNow   (10.02.11)
FREE POLLARD NOW !!!!
18. Biden the Jew hater
Arik A ,   hadera Israel   (10.02.11)
That's why he would prefer being dead than freeing Pollard after 25 years in jail! Look at his face no surprising!
19. What are they covering up? Hansen of the FBI was the one
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (10.02.11)
guilty of revealing US assets to the Soviets. What are they covering up? That the USA withheld vital defence information about Syria etc?
20. Are we all fools?
David   (10.02.11)
This is a broader question than the merits of Mr. Pollard's petition, many though there are. Those of us who are aware of the news and who happen to have the benefit of a functioning memory-- apparently contrary to Mr. Biden's expectations-- will recall that Mr. Biden very prominently, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, signed a petition to President Bush calling for Mr. Pollard's release. Apparently he relies quite substantially in his relations with the Jewish community upon the expectation that most of us are fools-- or that most of us in the very least don't take offense at being lied to in front of our faces. If he had any respect for his audience, would he not have at least thought to conceive of some half-believable conversion of opinion-- other than to betray his dishonesty to anyone who could remember it? This is what happens when you continue to throw your support behind people who haven't earned it-- they increasingly disregard you, and eventually don't even bother to go through the trouble of coming up with excuses to explain why they're not lying. Recall, if you can remember it, how much Mr. Biden squirmed at the prospect that a director of the National Security Council then believed to be a pro-Israel stalwart (Condi Rice) might head the more "even-handed" ranks of the diplomatic corps. And yet-- either because of his unique position of public irrelevance, or because of his race or perhaps for some other reason-- his "pro-Israel" credentials haven't attracted an iota of scrutiny. The man thrives on the expectation that we are all idiots. Teach him otherwise.
21. fools?
David   (10.02.11)
In case nobody wanted to read my long post with "fools" in the title, I wanted to reiterate my main point. This man very prominently signed a petition calling for Pollard's release. He also, now that I remember, was personally involved in releasing those American Russian agents that were apprehended a year or two ago-- and was so unaggrieved by their treasonous actions that he broke all protocols of propriety and called one of them (a woman) "hot" on a late night comedy show.
22. LET IT BE WRITTEN, LET IT BE DONE
....DACON9   (10.02.11)
23. Obama is using VP as excuse to pardon. If this is not
robin   (10.02.11)
LET IT BE SAID OUT LOUD if not true Obama should not be helped by jews for next TERM
24. Pollard and Biden
shosh7154 ,   USA   (10.02.11)
James (Yaacov) 2:13 There will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others...
25. ynet has the best pictures
mattan ,   merritt island, usa   (10.02.11)
of politicians looking stupid.
26. I don't want to hear another word about Palin
Etoile ,   Montreal, CAN   (10.02.11)
To those who have something to say about her, meet Joe Biden. He always manages to act like a drunk moron whose every word should logically put him one step closer to an old age asylum. You want to know the difference between he and Palin? One of them is VP. So yeah, to all those Jewish democrats, keep focusing on some irrelevent person in Alaska. The morons you worshipfully elected are laughing all the way to the bank.
27. How many other Israeli criminals have.....
Chris.B ,   Australia   (10.02.11)
been pardoned by the white house and let free?
28. Way to go Joe!
K ,   Chicago, USA   (10.02.11)
As if the Obama regime doesn't have enough problems with Jewish voters, they now have Comrade Joe to say this. Another good reason NOT to vote Democrat in 2012!
29. While the Anti Semites Applaud...
leo ,   nyc   (10.02.11)
and devour this, one wonders how stupid the VP is if he admitted this to a group of rabbis. Pollard has already served more than he deserved and if this is true, Obama and Biden will suffer a great lose of votes next time around.
30. Biden - you were quick to release Anna Chapman
William ,   Israel   (10.02.11)
and the other Russian spies caught in and around New York City. What gives? Is this more of the "hope and change" the Left keeps touting? Equality for all, just some more than others.
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