Is Anthony Weiner Presidential Material.....

New liberal fans: Meet Anthony Weiner, ultra-hawkish backer of Israel
The prominent New York Democrat's far-right Zionism might surprise some of his new liberal fans

Will the liberals who only know Weiner from his feisty MSNBC appearances and his staunch support of the president's domestic initiatives be put off when they hear him taking the "Israel can do no wrong" side in the debate over Israel's botched raid, in international waters, of a humanitarian aid flotilla?

Weiner's statement is comical. "Even if we are the only country on earth that sees the facts here," Weiner says, "the United States should stand up for Israel." That's the statement of a man with whom there can be no reasoning.

And it's not, by any means, outside the norm for Weiner. He's precisely the sort of liberal establishment politician that Peter Beinart accused of failing young American Jews in the New York Review of Books recently. In the past, Weiner has matter-of-factly accused Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International of being anti-Semitic. And not just them!

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/01/anthony_weiner_israel_liberals