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jwhop
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posted March 21, 2015 01:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Or, at the very least, no adults are home.

At the White House, There's Nobody Home
Victor Davis Hanson
March 19, 2015

What has gone wrong with the U.S. government in the past month? Just about everything, from the fundamental to the ridiculous.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States to warn Congress about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. He spoke without the invitation of an irritated President Obama, who claimed that he did not even watch the address on television.

Obama declined to even meet with the Israeli prime minister, announcing that it would have been improper for him to have such a meeting so close to Netanyahu’s re-election bid.

But if Obama was so concerned about not influencing the Israeli elections, why, according to some news accounts, is a Senate panel launching an investigation into whether Obama’s State Department gave grant money to a nonprofit organization, the OneVoice Movement, that sought to unseat Netanyahu with the help of several former Obama campaign operatives?

Then, 47 Republican senators signed an unusual letter to the Iranian theocracy, reminding it that any agreement on Iran’s nuclear program negotiated with the Obama administration would have to first clear Congress.

Obama shot back that the senators’ letter was undue interference that aided the Iranians. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton agreed that the senators were either empowering Iranian hardliners or sabotaging the diplomatic efforts of their own president. Secretary of State John Kerry concurred.

Nonetheless, the Senate may well pass new sanctions against Iran, if it feels Obama has been too lax in its negotiations or usurped senatorial oversight of treaties.

Senator Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) bucked the Obama administration and expressed doubt about administration concessions to the Iranians. Other Democrats could join him.

But almost immediately after weighing in on Iran, Menendez found himself the target of a federal investigation into purported corruption. And as far as the claim of improper interference in foreign affairs goes, the Obama administration and British prime minister David Cameron jointly lobbied U.S. senators not to pass tougher sanctions on Iran.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned Hillary Clinton is bogged down in another trademark Clinton scandal. Clinton never used a standard government e-mail account while secretary. And rather than submitting her actual e-mails to the State Department back in December, Clinton submitted 55,000 printed pages of e-mails — making it much harder for those e-mails to be searched.

Apparently, Clinton also wished to decide which of her private-server communications to release to the government — but only when demanded by congressional investigators and watchdog groups well after her tenure ended.

Clinton’s implausible press conference last week only made things worse. She proved unable to explain her unusual behavior and seemed ignorant about how government e-mail works and is secured.

Abroad, Syria, Iran, and the Islamic State are battling for what is left of the Syrian-Iraqi borderlands after the United States abruptly pulled out all its peacekeepers from Iraq. All are enemies of the U.S. But as they fight each other, the Obama administration is negotiating with Iran over its efforts against the Islamic State. The administration has also expressed a willingness to meet with Syrian president Bashar Assad, after not long ago declaring Assad an illegitimate leader who should step down. Obama had issued red-line threats to Assad over the gassing of his own people.

Back home, two apparently inebriated Secret Service agents crashed their government car into a security barrier near the White House — in the midst of an active bomb investigation. Indeed, the reckless agents may have crashed right through the crime scene. This is after the Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation into the culture of the Secret Service following a 2012 scandal in which a dozen agents hired prostitutes during an alcohol-fueled night in Colombia.

Meanwhile, in the midst of nightly demonstrations at Ferguson, Mo., a young demonstrator on parole allegedly shot two police officers. “Whoever fired those shots shouldn’t detract from the issue,” the president editorialized.

But trying to gun down a policeman should amount to something more than a “detraction.”

Obama’s own Department of Justice recently issued a report indicating that the Ferguson Police Department routinely violates the rights of black citizens. But the DOJ also found Officer Darren Wilson’s shooting of a charging Michael Brown justifiable. That shooting was the incident that began the Ferguson “issue” in the first place.

Was Obama worried about the wounded policemen “detracting” from the protestors’ “hands up, don’t shoot” allegations, which Attorney General Eric Holder’s investigators, along with a grand jury, had already debunked?

All this chaos has taken amid ongoing IRS and VA investigations, the Supreme Court’s impending decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare, and Saudi Arabia arranging to buy from South Korea nuclear expertise to counter Iran.

The common thread in all this chaos?

More than the usual partisanship at home and barbarism abroad.

No one seems to be in charge at the White House. And that has terrified America’s supporters and emboldened its enemies — with another two years to go.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/19/at_the_white_house_theres_nobody_home_125982.html

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posted March 22, 2015 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not to mention the temper tantrum Obama had over Israel. How dare anyone verbally defy the King of the US?

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posted March 22, 2015 03:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What temper tantrum? You mean he dared to speak in disagreement with congress' (not elected and not even American) chosen leader? Lol. And defy Sheldon Adelson?? Lmao

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posted March 22, 2015 09:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Poor little troglodyte O'Bomber has been in high dungeon ever since Bibi won reelection in Israel.

It was especially painful for the Marxist Messiah after sending his hit team from his reelection team to Israel to attempt Bibi's defeat...and illegally funding the opposition campaign with taxpayer money.

O'Bomber grows more childish every day. All that wheezing, whining, screeching, howling and shrieking about an election which was absolutely none of his business shows his narcissistic juvenile mindset.

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posted March 22, 2015 09:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What bullsh!t. Bibis busy peddling fear and"outside influence" while sucking up Adelsons money. Then the day after the election back to his old line and the finger to those who finally came out because he promised to wipe out the Palestinians. What a hero!

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posted March 23, 2015 09:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, let's say...just for the purpose of discussion...and you offer no proof whatsoever...that Adelson contributed to Netanyahu's campaign. SO WHAT?

Adelson is a private citizen. IF Adelson contributed to Bibi, he contributed his own money...SO WHAT?

On the other hand, the Marxist Messiah used taxpayer money...illegally, to get Bibi defeated. His Hope and Change bullshiiit didn't fly in Israel.

There's a Congressional investigation underway to investigate the illegal expenditure of taxpayer money to meddle in a foreign election.

O'Bomber is the most lawless president in US history...by a wide margin.

March 23, 2015
Netanyahu pollster charges that millions of dollars funneled into Israel by Obama forces to defeat Bibi
Thomas Lifson

President Obama’s obvious displeasure with the electoral victory of Israeli prime minister Netanyahu may be in part based on frustration that his own efforts to defeat Bibi went to naught. Now, John McLaughlin, the American pollster hired by the Netanyahu campaign, has charged that those efforts were far larger than previously reported. Jesse Byrnes of The Hill reports:

"What was not well reported in the American media is that President Obama and his allies were playing in the election to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu," John McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, said in an interview on John Catsimatidis's "The Cats Roundtable" radio show broadcast Sunday on AM 970 in New York.

"There was money moving that included taxpayer U.S. dollars, through non-profit organizations. And there were various liberal groups in the United States that were raising millions to fund a campaign called V15 against Prime Minister Netanyahu," McLaughlin said.

He noted an effort to oust Netanyahu was guided by former Obama political operative Jeremy Bird and that V15, or Victory 15, ads hurt Netanyahu in the polls. McLaughlin said the Israeli leader rebounded after delivering a speech to Congress early this month, prompting more critical ads.

As has been previously reported, V15’s parent organization, OneVoice, has received taxpayer funding, which ended in November, before the election. But of course, money is fungible, and a Senate committee is investigating the funding.

If a foreign country attempted to influence an American presidential election in the way Obama allies have attempted to do in Israel, there would be a huge outcry. Imagine if Israelis did to Obama’s re-election campaign what has been attempted in Israel.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/netanyahu_pollster_charges_that_millions_of_dollars_funneled_into_israel_by_obama_forces_to_defeat_bibi.html

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posted March 23, 2015 11:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bibi Beat Barack at His Own Game
Now he’s become Obama’s great white whale.
Aaron Goldstein
3.23.15

President Obama is very good at one thing — winning elections.

So when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a snap election earlier this year, Obama figured he could win one more. After all, it was Obama who once complained to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over a hot mic that he had to deal with Bibi every day. Getting Netanyahu out of the political picture would have been a bigger cause for celebration at the White House than when Osama bin Laden was killed.

How else does one explain the presence of Jeremy Bird in Israel during the election? Bird was Obama’s Deputy National Field Director during the 2008 campaign and was promoted to National Field Director in the 2012 campaign. Bird wasn’t in Israel to take in the sights. He was there to oust Netanyahu from office.

And it very nearly worked. In the final days of the campaign, the Zionist Camp alliance led by Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnuah Party leader Tzipi Livni were leading in the polls. It appeared that Bibi’s political career was over. But the people of Israel had other plans. The mood of the Obama White House went from victorious to vitriolic.

The Obama Administration was so flummoxed by Netanyahu’s triumph that several White House officials privately compared him to George Wallace and Bull Connor. As such it is no surprise they initially could not bring themselves to congratulate him. Instead they congratulated the only democracy in the Middle East on having yet another election. Without mentioning Netanyahu by name, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest assailed Bibi’s electoral triumph by accusing his Likud Party of deploying “divisive rhetoric to marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens,” adding that “it undermines the values and democratic ideals that… binds the United States and Israel together.”

Soon President Obama himself would weigh in on the matter in an interview with Sam Stein of the Huffington Post conducted released on Saturday:

Well, I had a chance to speak to Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday, congratulated his party on his victory. I did indicate to him that we continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic. And I indicated to him that given his statements prior to the election, it is going to be hard to find a path where people are seriously believing that negotiations are possible. So we’re evaluating what’s taking place.

How is it that Obama thinks “it’s going to be hard to find a path where people are believing that negotiations are possible” when it was the Palestinians who rejected John Kerry’s peace framework just last year? This is on top of rejecting three peace offers in the 2000s each of which would have given them a state. How can Obama be worried about being unable to find a path to peace with Netanyahu when it is the Palestinians that have put up roadblock after roadblock?

Naturally, Obama wasn’t done:

But we are going to continue to insist that, from our point of view, the status quo is unsustainable. And that while taking into complete account Israel’s security, we can’t just in perpetuity maintain the status quo, expand settlements. That’s not a recipe for stability in the region.

Ah, the settlements. Well, it’s been ten years since Israel unilaterally dismantled every settlement in Gaza and what has that brought? A Hamas-led government and thousands of rocket attacks. Does Obama honestly believe if Israel were to dismantle its remaining settlements it would buy them any kind of peace?

When Stein asked Obama if Netanyahu was “serious about a Palestinian state,” Obama gave this reply:

Well, we take him at his word when he said that it wouldn’t happen during his prime ministership, and so that’s why we’ve got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we don’t see a chaotic situation in the region.

And what might those other available options be? Could Obama be referring to Palestinian statehood being recognized through the UN? The Palestinian Authority has sought this means of recognition as an end run around a negotiated settlement? The Obama administration has opposed this avenue because the UN would get credit for bringing about a Palestinian state and not the White House. But President Obama’s anger with Netanyahu is such that marginalizing him and delegitimizing the State of Israel is his top foreign policy priority.

This marginalization and delegitimization takes the form of elaborating on Earnest’s comments and criticizing Netanyahu’s warning that Israeli Arabs would be voting in droves:

We indicated that that kind of rhetoric was contrary to what is the best of Israel’s traditions. That although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what’s best about Israeli democracy. If that is lost, then I think that not only does it give ammunition to folks who don’t believe in a Jewish state, but it also I think starts to erode the meaning of democracy in the country.

Netanyahu was talking about a constituency in Israel that has traditionally not supported him and could have potentially contributed to his defeat. Nothing more and nothing less. Netanyahu was not speaking of suppressing the Arab vote and Obama knows it. Frankly, Israeli Arabs are treated equally and fairly. The same cannot be said of Arabs who live in the Muslim world.

And what of Muslims in non-Arab countries? When the Iranian regime, with whom Obama is so eager to negotiate, was murdering people in broad daylight after the Iranian people sought fit to protest the results of the 2009 election, Obama said it wasn’t his place to meddle. No one has died following the results of the Israeli election and yet Obama meddles without a moment’s hesitation. When it comes to Israel, Obama gets a gold “meddle.”

President Obama may be good at winning elections. But he is no better at losing elections than he is in taking criticism. What Obama is really angry about is that Benjamin Netanyahu beat him at his own game and it appears that he is prepared to undo nearly seven decades of American foreign policy in the Middle East because of it.

Now we know Obama’s version of his “congratulatory” call to Bibi. I would love to know what Netanyahu said in response to Obama’s lecturing. I am sure that at some point in the conversation, Obama reminded Netanyahu that he still had to form a coalition government. If so then I wonder if Bibi replied, “I know. I won.”
http://spectator.org/articles/62150/bibi-beat-barack-his-own-game

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posted March 23, 2015 02:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/23/1372755/-GOP-Rep-Steve-King-doesn-t-understand-how-American-Jews-can-support-their-president-over-Israel?

Actually there is even less "proof" that Obama committed ANY taxpayer money to anti-Bibi efforts. There is plenty of evidence that our Congress thinks we owe more allegiance to Netanyahu than our own president, even while unable to see American Jews as Americans above and beyond their Israeli interests. And Steve King doesn't understand how "jews in america" can support the Dem approach to Israel rather than Bibi's position.

Then again, tho he talKed big fear and loathing on election day he has turned right back to mouthing agreement with ALL the points on which Obama spoke.

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