President Barack Obama on Monday chided the Republican presidential field, in particular Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee, for cheapening the political debate with what he said were “outrageous attacks.”
During a news conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Obama was asked to respond to a remark that Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, made over the weekend comparing a landmark nuclear deal with Iran to the Holocaust. Huckabee said that in sealing the deal, the President “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”
Obama said Huckabee’s remark was “part of just a general pattern that we’ve seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.”
He then suggested Huckabee may have made the comment in an effort to steal headlines away from real estate mogul Donald Trump, who’s dominated the news in recent weeks for his disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants and Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) war record, according to CBS News.
“The Republican Party is shocked and yet that arises out of a culture where those kind of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and yet circulated nonstop through the Internet and talk radio and news outlets,” Obama added.
The President further criticized congressional Republicans for playing “fast and loose” with the facts of the Iran deal. He pointed to presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) allegation that the deal would make America a backer of “radical Islamic terrorism” and Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) comparison of Secretary of State John Kerry to Pontius Pilate.
“I have not yet heard a factual argument on the other side that holds up to scrutiny,” he said, as quoted by CBS News. “There’s a reason why 99 percent of the world thinks this is a good deal. It’s because it’s a good deal. So if you’re asking me how do you think our argument’s going, it’s going great.”
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Obama should sit there in Congress and simply tell these schmucks to either approve the agreement or their backsides will be among the first backsides on the ground heading into Iran.
The President is certainly acting as though he has no more ‘fvcks’ to give. Masterfully playing GOP Clown Car participants against each other and chiding the ridiculous opposition from Congressional Republicans to the Iran deal as equally unserious.
It should be noted that, aside from commenting on boobs within the domestic American media bubble, the President’s amazing royalty/rock star African diplomacy, grudgingly half-covered by pouty sad sacks like Major Garrett, will greatly accrue to America’s benefit over time.
this is what hucksters and trump divers do. spew outrageous BS while offering nada. add bad little teddie to the mix and the sandbox starts looking more like a litterbox.
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The President is certainly acting as though he has no more ‘fvcks’ to give. [/quote]
This is something he should have been doing since re-election. Perhaps then the Democrats might not have lost the 2014 elections.