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Many commentators noted that the letter, like the Republican invitation to the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to address Congress last week without consulting the White House, marked a dramatic break from the tradition that partisan politics should "stop at the water's edge" and not spread into critical US defence and security policy abroad.
Some political commentators claim that the EU hasn't given Ukraine enough support in its conflict with Russia, that the EU response to the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea was half-hearted.
Some commentators believe Bernanke's statement proves nothing other than he needs his eyes testing, or that he is doing his best to talk up the economy and lift the mood of the nation.
The commentators - being mischief-makers - will not say just that he wants to be PM; they will add that he should be.
Well-insulated London politicians, policymakers and commentators controlling the most powerful communications may fool enough of the people enough of the time.
In WaterAid's second film, football commentators talk blithely about a player being the most likely to score because he's "on day two of his cycle" and "right in the optimum performance zone this month".
All the top political commentators and broadcasters who had been brought into ITV's opinion room – think of a spin room decked out to look like an Apple showroom – were suddenly short of their one stock in trade: opinions.
Some European commentators, from early frontier explorers to modern anthropologists, also were influenced by their own homophobic prejudices to distort native attitudes.
It would be also be a mistake to describe this as a "war on the young" as many commentators have done.
Netanyahu's visit to Har Homa followed his appearance at a rally in Tel Aviv attended largely by settlers and national religious voters, in a move some commentators warned might backfire.
