President Obama is scheduled to deliver a press conference about the Iran nuclear deal today at 1 p.m. ET, a start in his efforts to sell Congress on the historic deal.
He is also expected to address congressional Republicans and the 2016 race in the news conference, to be held in the White House East Room.
Watch the President’s remarks live, via NBCNews:
2016: “Never let it be forgot, that once there was a spot where a fucking grown-up was President of the United States.”
One thing I’ve learn so far in this presser: Jonathon Karl is still a dick.
It is refreshing to hear a logical argument about the merits of the agreement - and the arguments against it - instead of the cynical scaremongering coming from the opponents.
I swear I was literally (literally-literally, not Biden-literally) about to post the same thing, lyric reference and all. I continue to marvel at this man’s ability to keep his composure in the face of all the shallow, GOP-minted, squirrel-chasing, repetitive, and just plain asinine questions from our awful, awful White House press corps, after accomplishing a feat everyone has claimed to want but doubted could be accomplished and which experts – you know, the people who actually know what they’re talking about – are saying is, once again, better than expected, tightening some of the openings they saw in the April framework. I stand in awe of a man who, after an accomplishment like that, can calmly answer the same ignorant and mindlessly adversarial questions over and over, giving the same clear answers over and over, without throwing his shoes at these idiots. Just sitting here listening has me so disgusted on his behalf that I seem all-but-incapable of writing a short sentence.
Of course any logical argument coming from President Obama soon translates to “uppity” to GOP talking heads.