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Pelosi: President Obama's Been to Israel ‘Over and Over Again’
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Posted on 07/28/2012 10:22:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi: President Obama's Been to Israel ‘Over and Over Again’ William Kristol July 28, 2012 10:43 AM

Daniel Halper has called attention to Nancy Pelosi's remarkable interview with Al Hunt on the topic of Barack Obama and Israel. I'd note one comment in particular: Pelosi's claim that President Obama "has been there [Israel] over and over again."

Wow. I'm involved with the Emergency Committee for Israel. We have an ad up in several states calling attention to the fact that President Obama, who's been quite the world traveler, has never visited Israel as president. Did we make a terrible mistake? Were we unjust to President Obama? Do we have to pull down the ad?

No, no, and no. Contrary to Pelosi's apparent claim, President Obama hasn't been to Israel over and over again. He's never been as president, which is certainly what Pelosi implied. Well, maybe he visited Israel "over and over" before becoming president, and that's what Pelosi meant to say? No. When he was senator, Obama went on two trips to Israel, once with several other freshmen members of Congress, and then as a presidential candidate. And he'd never been interested enough in Israel to visit as a private citizen. So much for the notion that Obama's been "over and over again."

So Pelosi is wrong, and the Emergency Committee is right. But Pelosi's resort to a whopper to try to reassure pro-Israel voters does suggest how worried Democrats must be about the reaction to Obama's attempt to create distance between his administration and Israel, as Obama's Israel policy gets more scrutiny.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; bho; bho2012; bho44; bhomiddleeast; demlies; gaffes; israel; kristol; nolietoobig; obama; pelosi; pelosilies; pelosimentalillness
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1 posted on 07/28/2012 10:22:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

The woman is 72 now. Has she ever had her health evaluated . . . ?


2 posted on 07/28/2012 10:24:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Sub-Driver

Remember, It’s what is in their feelings. They feel zer0 has been there, So he has.


3 posted on 07/28/2012 10:24:36 AM PDT by reefdiver (Shoeless John Roberts, An American Tragedy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Time for Pelosi to get that psych eval she has needed for a long time. This woman is bonkers. She is dangerous.


4 posted on 07/28/2012 10:26:29 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Sub-Driver

Through virtual reality or in his dreams?

I honestly cannot recall a single time when Air Force One touched down in Israel during Obama’s term.


5 posted on 07/28/2012 10:27:14 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now that the election is just a few months away obammy and co. just love Israel. No one will remember all the disses over the last 3.5 yrs. The MSM will give cover. No sweat.


6 posted on 07/28/2012 10:28:05 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Olog-hai
The woman is 72 now. Has she ever had her health evaluated . . . ?

With her gold plated congressional medical plan...I'm sure she is in the best medical hands

Her mental health is quite suspect...personally, I think she went clinically insane when she lost the house gavel

7 posted on 07/28/2012 10:28:42 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: Sub-Driver
Pelosi: President Obama's Been to Israel ‘Over and Over Again’

Pelosi: President Obama's Has Made Israel Bend Over ‘Over and Over Again’

There, I fixed it.

8 posted on 07/28/2012 10:28:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: Sub-Driver
He went over once, then he went over again.

What's the problem?

;-)

9 posted on 07/28/2012 10:30:16 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Popman
Ah yes, the gavel. She did have it shellacked out of her grasp . . .


10 posted on 07/28/2012 10:34:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Sub-Driver

The media has allowed these leftists to get away with lie after lie, and they’ve finally completely lost their minds.


11 posted on 07/28/2012 10:36:14 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sub-Driver
We are taking this out of context. See, there is a map somewhere in the WH
and every time Obama looks at it he imagines himself there visiting.
So we must determine our meaning of visit before jumping to conclusions.
12 posted on 07/28/2012 10:37:59 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Thats why the democrats are so keen to fill Florida up with illegals - they wont have to kowtow to the snowbirds in this key state anymore and then Israel can rot.


13 posted on 07/28/2012 10:39:30 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sub-Driver

I hate to be in the position of defending pelosi, but kristol took her comment completely out of context. She didn’t say he had been ‘to Israel’. She meant FOR Israel. Just as delusional, but kristol blew it.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pelosi-republican-jews-being-exploited_649077.html

Pelosi responded, “Well, that’s how they’re being exploited. And they’re smart people. They follow these issues. But they have to know the facts. And the fact is that President Obama has been the strongest person in terms of sanctions on Iran, which is important to Israel. He’s been the strongest person on whether it’s Iron Dome, David’s Sling, any of these weapons systems and initiatives that relate to Israel. He has been there over and over again.”


14 posted on 07/28/2012 10:39:37 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Sub-Driver

Huh? She’s making less and less sense.

Of course, the bar wasn’t so high in the first place.


15 posted on 07/28/2012 10:39:48 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Olog-hai
Ahh yes, the first gavel in history to have an on/off switch with a potentiometer control.
16 posted on 07/28/2012 10:39:54 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: MaxMax
“The only problem is, Pelosi didn't say that.” (Followed by a clip of her saying exactly that.) Or, “It was taken out of context.”
17 posted on 07/28/2012 10:45:31 AM PDT by sportutegrl (Yeah, that's the ticket.)
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To: MestaMachine
He has been there over and over again.

I see that it was used as a metaphor, as in
"I've visited that issue many times".

This is an important clarification that we need to know.

/salute

18 posted on 07/28/2012 10:46:02 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: MestaMachine
He has been there over and over again.

I see that it was used as a metaphor, as in
"I've visited that issue many times".

This is an important clarification that we need to know.

/salute

19 posted on 07/28/2012 10:46:02 AM PDT by MaxMax
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