Posted on 05/29/2014 8:49:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
JEN PSAKI: I would argue the president doesn't give himself enough credit for what he's done around the world. And that's how the secretary feels too. We would not be engaged in comprehensive negotiations with Iran, which is where the program is stalled, and is rolling back, if it were not for the role of the United States, along with the P-5 +1 partners certainly. In Ukraine, we've been engaged more or as much as any other country in the world in supporting the elections process, supporting the government, and supporting efforts moving forward. Yes, there's more work that needs to be done, the point is we need to continue to stay at it.
REPORTER: Is this a potential mission accomplished statement?
PSAKI: Absolutely not.
MATT LEE: You would argue the president doesn't give himself enough credit, how much credit would you give him?
PSAKI: I would give him more than he has given himself. So would the secretary.
LEE: Like 200 percent credit? For what? Iran negotiations?
PSAKI: I mean...
REPORTER: What specifically are you saying he doesn't get enough credit for?
PSAKI: For engagement in issues like Iran, what we've done on Ukraine. Efforts to dive in and engage in the world....
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I’m constantly awe-struck at how many elected Republicans are completely tongue-tied and cannot speak coherently about the wonders of free markets and their inability to defend liberty and freedom. They are AWFUL at it.
Mark Levin just played some great clips of one of Reagan’s inaugural addresses. His bold, shameless defense of America and our freedoms put a lump in my throat and almost left me in tears considering how far we’ve fallen into tyranny.
A large portion of them nether understand nor believe the subject material, so it's hard for them to talk extemporaneously about it.
Agreed. The only explanation I can think of is that most of the influential repubs have been blackmailed.
Their silence on issues such as giving the internet away, backing off ObamaCare, attacking Christianity, Bengazi, letting our Marine rot in MX, IRS, VA scandal, pathetic economy, abandoning Israel, cowering to Russia, destroying our military, endless spending, etc etc etc can only be attributed to one of two things in my books: complicity (treason) or blackmail.
Nothing else rings true to me.
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