Tez is British and is responding from that position. Her Jewish background has nothing to do with the thread or any of the posts in it. You brought it up and to me it smacks of racism and I'm sorry, I don't like racist references.
It has to go to the nature of her form of argumentation, which is a relevant to how she deals with religious as well as this issue. It was evidence to prove a point. She argues for the fact that Jews often disagree as to what various edicts of the religion are about, but then argues for a homogeneous statment regarding whether they "think about other religions." The same thing here, she argues that the British don't think about the US, but then goes on to show that we have a reputation there, showing that they, in fact, do think about us.
Interestingly enough, I was not actually referring to the ethnic nature of Jews in my post, but of the religious aspect of Judaism. Not everyone who follows Judaism is ethnically Jewish. Not only that, but not all Jews worship from in a traditionally Jewish perspective. There are many ethnic Jews who are of the Christian, or some other, faith.
It may smack of racism to you, but that is only if you look at what I said superficially.
You second point is totally wrong. The British population is not an ethnic race. They, like many Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders are of perhaps Celtic origins or more recently Picts or Scots, Saxons or Normans. So she is speaking from a British perspective, not an ethnic one.
ethinicity: (from websters)
1. relating to or characteristic of a human group having racial, religious, linguistic, and certain other traits in common
3. denoting or deriving from the cultural traditions of a group of people
So, yeah, I used it correctly, if broadly. She is making a generalization regarding the British people, who share religious, linguistic and certain other traits, if not completely racial traits, though most do share even that.
Why label to poster 'anti Obama'? It's a fair question from anyone of any political persuasion. Why is Obama upsetting allies that have stood by the US in good times and in bad? To me that is bad politics.
Uh, cuz it's billichak. He has made his views perfectly known. To ignore the fact that he disagrees with Obama's policys would be disingenuous. How come I get challenged when I bring it up, but when others have, nothing is said?
Tez hasn't involved herself in US politics.
Well, let's examine this. Somehow, individual citizens discussing politics, and bringing up the nature of Obama and his policies involving the UK is "involving" them in our politics. No actual policy thing is done, but just a
discussion over it, somehow involves them. That is her perspective. So by then interjecting herself into the discussion, by her definition that a debate is considered "involvement", she is involving herself into US politics.
She is commenting on the topic of the OP and pointing out that regardless of what the US Government does, it won't affect the feelings the British people have for the American people. She also pointed out, quite rightly, that it doesn't matter what Britain thinks about Obama, the Brits don't vote in the US therefore they can't do anything to change things. Why concern yourself in issues that you can't change?
And how would she know. Quite frankly, I don't deign to speak for all Americans, then how can she then speak for all Britons? Did she take a poll? Is she all-knowing? Are the British that homogeneous in thought that, by extension, she knows what they are thinking?
Beyond which, that was never my point. You brought up everything that she said
but what I challenged, which is that "the British don't think about the US", which has to be patently false, based on her own statements.
Which is fine if she is speaking for herself. It is not fine when she makes blanket statements about all British.
The duress of being bored. I guess I can understand that. It's about the only thing that makes me come back here.
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. Everything, is politics at the end of the day and, whilst I can do nothing about the state of the world, I do like to keep informed and have an opinion on things :blushes:. 
