# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8504 "2026-11-05T16:30:27Z")

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[Here’s Abdul’s Senate campaign homepage.](https://abdulforsenate.com/about/)

Literally not a single word about Israel. Lots of stuff about fighting Musk and Trump, affordability, all his accomplishments as Wayne County Health Director, how he literally wrote a book on single-payer health care and was appointed to Biden’s health policy taskforce, how he captained his high school football team and played lacrosse for the University of Michigan, and oh yeah, the whole Rhodes Scholar thing.

Now let’s all watch Babale pivot from “He kept relentlessly attacking Israel” to “He’s concealing his anti-Israel views because he is a sneaky antisemite”.

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