Posted on 01/25/2015 5:26:58 PM PST by 9thLife
Thou shall not cross Dear Leader.
With their gutter sniping failing to stop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned March speech before Congress, White House aides are unloading their full arsenal of bile.
“He spat in our face publicly, and that’s no way to behave,” one Obama aide told an Israeli newspaper. “Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price.”
It is pointless to say petty threats do not become the Oval Office. Trying to instruct this White House on manners recalls what Mark Twain said about trying to teach a pig to sing: It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Still, the fury is telling. It reminds, as if we could forget, that everything is always about Obama. How dare Israel be more concerned with the existential threat of Iranian nukes than with Obama’s feelings? And what do members of Congress think they are, a separate branch of government or something?
Yes, the presidency deserves respect, even when the president doesn’t. Although Obama routinely ignores lawmakers and their role in our constitutional system of checks and balances, there is an argument afoot that Congress should have taken the high road and consulted him before inviting Netanyahu.
The argument has a point — but not a compelling one. To give Obama veto power over the visit would be to put protocol and his pride before the most important issue in the world.
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That is Iran’s march to nuclear weapons, and Obama’s foolish complicity. His claim at the State of the Union that “we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material” would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous...
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how about the White House stfu
In short, it is Obama.
It was probably only luck but Boehner sure pushed the Kenyan’s “Hot” button!!! Outstanding. Make the boy cry!
Like showing Dracula a Crucifix, wasn’t it?
Smoke screen to hide their own incompetence.
If the White House was really upset about Netanyahu's address to Congress, they could keep the guy from even entering the country. LOL.
You got that right.
I hope the White House continues to throw a hissy fit over this. By doing so, it will serve to make Netanyahu’s speech before congress a much bigger media event that it otherwise would have been. People in this country need to hear what he has to say about the danger of a nuclear Iran.
If he could do it, I’m certain that Obama would implement Bill Ayres’ “final solution” against every Republican in the United States.
One of the main reasons he can’t is the Second Amendment.
Hope so; although it's cynical, it's probably the best-case scenario. But I don't think Jihadi's parse "political posturing" the way they do inside the Beltway.
Bibi Netanyahu is a Man, and a leader.
Our clown... well... not so much.
There will be a price, hm?
“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Gen. 12:3
There’s your price, Barry.
Yup! There you go! LOL!
The New York Post and the New York Daily News both seem to have a grip on the real world.
Unfortunately, thehoi-polloi read the Post and the News, while the elite intelligencia and the cognoscenti read the New York Times -- which specializes in fantasy.
Little Man.
“If the White House was really upset about Netanyahu’s address to Congress, they could keep the guy from even entering the country. LOL. “
I’d bet that has been discussed in the white hut. I think this hatred for Israel in the Administration is very real and has only been restrained for domestic political reasons. Certainly the first few contacts Obama had with Netanyahu were carefully orchestrated to emphasize what they saw as Israel’s client state status.
CatherineofAragon...Amen
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