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The Dissing of the President
WSJ ^ | 3/31/2014 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 04/01/2014 10:02:23 AM PDT by mojito

I've never liked the word diss—not as a verb, much less as a noun. But watching the Obama administration get the diss treatment the world over, week-in, week-out, I'm beginning to see its uses.

Diss: On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Hasan Rouhani named Hamid Aboutalebi to serve as the ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Rouhani is the Iranian president the West keeps insisting is a "moderate," mounting evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Aboutalebi was one of the students who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Here's the kicker: The State Department—the very institution whose diplomats were held hostage and brutalized for 444 days—will have to approve his visa to come to New York. Considering how desperate John Kerry is not to spoil the nuclear mood music with Tehran, the department probably will.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: aboutalebi; ambassador; americaindecline; carteresque; iran; johnkerry; kenyanbornmuzzie; lurch; obama; obamafail; obamalegacy; rouhani; samanthapower; valeriejarrett; worstpresidentever
Where's Cy Vance when you really need him?
1 posted on 04/01/2014 10:02:23 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

Where are intelligent, moral, ethical, responsible human beings when we need them? Definitely not in the government.


2 posted on 04/01/2014 10:17:15 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mojito

Some people just need dissing.........................


3 posted on 04/01/2014 10:33:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: hal ogen

The Left high-fived those who criticized President Bush when it would have been best to remain silent.
Don’t spit in the well, you may have to drink the water.
They never think they are responsible for our current declining trend.


4 posted on 04/01/2014 10:49:57 AM PDT by griswold3 ("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks mojito.
Hasan Rouhani named Hamid Aboutalebi to serve as the ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Rouhani is the Iranian president the West keeps insisting is a "moderate," mounting evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Aboutalebi was one of the students who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
Kenyan-born muzzie ping.
5 posted on 04/01/2014 11:06:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: SunkenCiv
I'd let him in. Sure would.

He might have trouble going home, though, for about 444 days.

6 posted on 04/01/2014 6:38:59 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: mojito
I want Warren Christopher. There was a real man.
7 posted on 04/02/2014 2:41:30 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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