the distinction between his personal opinion and values vs. his politics is quite clear to the average voter.

It’s amazing right?

Biden’s the president, he’s running for reelection, and he’s very unpopular. It would be nice if he were more willing to associate *himself* more explicitly with a position more popular than he is. I don’t know that Jezebel, or really anyone, takes issue with someone who is personally against abortion but thinks it…

Your mom’s not president and your mom doesn’t need to convince people to vote for her. 

The things the the article is criticizing him for are resisting calls for a ceasefire and supporting more restrictions on immigration.  It’s a free country and all, but I wonder how much sense it makes to ignore the actual policy position the article is taking him to task for in favor of talking about other more…

Reproductive rights, and protecting abortion, are some of the most popular issues in the Democrats’ wheelhouse and arsenal, to say nothing of other left-leaning political forces. Making support of that issue contingent on another, more or less unrelated and highly divisive geopolitical issue...

I have not seen anything indicating 66% of Americans want a ceasefire.

but it’s unlikely that any of these 2023 issues (in which Fetterman is only marginally involved,) are going to have a major bearing on that 2028 election

I don’t think that many people are calling for a permanent, unconditional, and unilateral ceasefire.  Where are you seeing that call from?

According to one poll, 68% of respondents think there should be a ceasefire in Gaza. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-public-support-israel-drops-majority-backs-ceasefire-reutersipsos-2023-11-15/ 57% of Americans think immigration should be kept at its current level or increased. The things he is being criticized for…

The move is to lose the next election and then blame the same progressives he is insulting now (and who saved him last November) for not showing up for him. Same as it ever was 

TIL that being against the horrors happening in Gaza and not wanting to restrict immigration and asylum are positions extreme left positions. Huh. 

Well, he explicitly ran as a progressive in 2022, so?

For whom?  He didn’t express the sentiment in question, and also freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequences, but not sure how that applies here to an unequivocally true and pretty anodyne statement.

But the school says it took particular issue with posts that said Israel’s war on Gaza began before October 7

“But the school says it took particular issue with posts that said Israel’s war on Gaza began before October 7"

Who is saying anything about Jewish people leaving? It is about Jewish Israelis people SHARING political rights with the 7 million Palestinians they already share a common sovereign with. That is it. That’s why the word FREE is in there, it is about Palestinian freedom.  Again, that rabbi didn’t even characterize…

Good luck with the peace talks!

I mean, look, the chant is “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” It is, explicitly, a call for freedom. It is not a call to drive Jews into the sea. Do you think Palestinian people deserve equal civil and political rights along with everyone else living in the area Israel dominates, i.e. the land…

So, that is also not a call to drive Jews into the sea or any other kind of a call for genocide! Rejecting a two state solution, which Likud also explicitly does (again, check out their charter), is not an explicit call for genocide! https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/how-gaza-became-an-open-air-prison.html