I know I'm spamming today, but...

[sabotabby]

...I just can't keep news like this to myself. Know what I mean?

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[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I just saw this on CNN. He was even scheduled to have heart surgery tomorrow. What kind of shakeup will this entail?

[sabotabby]

What kind of shakeup will this entail?

Hopefully not Netanyahu again. I've just managed to ruin my happy.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

havent polls, up until now, shown sharon in first place, then peretz, and netanyahu last?

...just checked, it depends on poll. personal poll shows net and amir disturbingly close.

but the knesset seats polls are... less close btwn likud and labor, 39-22-12.

is this all denial? very likely. i cant deal with the prospect of netanyahu. sorta agree with zazuom. hmm...

[sabotabby]

Hey, denial's good. At least Netanyahu's really old...

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

No kidding about that....yuck.

[corvus.livejournal.com]

It's weird, according to Ha'aretz, "Sharon`s physician says he expects PM to emerge from surgery `safely`"

That was posted about an hour ago, yet it hasn't been picked up anywhere else to the best of my knowledge.

What would be better, if he died or if he lives and ends up stepping down? The former might get Olmert the sympathy vote, which would take some of the power from Bibi. The latter... I don't know what would happen with that scenario, really.

[corvus.livejournal.com]

Though if the new party just falls apart, that would benefit Labor.

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

see, that was my first thought, BUT- dont polls show that new party is composed of more former likud voters than labor voters? what if they just revert to their old ways? on the other hand, what if they take a look at netanyahu, think eww old been there wasnt too happy and go towards labor. on the other other hand, what if the trauma of sharon's death brings out the cowardly scared sheep that all of us are sometimes and they go towards the familiar however old and smelly rather than the anxiety-causing new.

brain hurt.

Voted #1 in Icons by "this dude" magazine.

[shiftchange.livejournal.com]

i love your icons.

Re: Voted #1 in Icons by "this dude" magazine.

[sabotabby]

Thanks!

[zazuomgwtf.livejournal.com]

unfortunately there is really nothing happy about this.
he has done more to get us out of the quagmire of the occupation than all the leftist governments up till now and I believe he disbanded his right wing government so he could make even more progress.
I cried for days when he won the election thinking it was the end for everything I hoped for, but now I think he is our only hope.
fuck.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

That's why they gave him a stroke.

[teapolitik.livejournal.com]

This is the problem with putting hope in government.

Sharon's agenda is to make colonization of the West Bank more successful, by removing liability for an essentially useless colony in Gaza. He is not interested in ending the occupation; Likud and Labour are not interested in ending the occupation. Even if they were forced to end the occupation of the West Bank, they would still occupy the '48 territories by force, and maintain military dominance over the rest of Palestine.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

MMmmmm... Schadenfreude.

*skips gleefully*

[ironed_orchid]

I was just wishing I had a schadenfreude icon.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

It is not right or Christian to hope for the death of any person.

But in this case I might just make an exception.

Well, OK, too badly disabled to continue in politics would do.

[sabotabby]

Ah, good thing I'm not right or Christian. ;)

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Serves the butcher right.

[sabotabby]

I have a friend who survived the massacre at Sabra and Shatila. I should check in with her and see how she's taking the news.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's going to die. I never get a pick right in my death pool this early.

[sabotabby]

I never get a pick right in death pools, ever, unless it's someone obvious. It's the real reason I never enter them.

[ironed_orchid]

OMG it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

Well, except for maybe Dubya.

[sabotabby]

Or Cheney.