Posted on 07/15/2015 10:43:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Today President Obama met the White House press corps at length to defend his Iran nuclear deal. One could deconstruct his evasions line by line, but that would largely duplicate the content of many posts we have done over the past weeks and months. Instead, I want to focus on a few key issues. But first, this observation: if any of the reporters present had read the agreement, which is only 159 pages long, it was not apparent. Maybe reporters are not accustomed to reading legal documents; maybe they are too lazy to try; maybe they have read and understood the agreement and are just partisan hacks, covering for their president. But I have a full-time job, and nevertheless have read the agreement several times. Why can’t reporters do the same? That would seem to be a prerequisite to participating intelligently in a press conference on the subject.
The following observations are, I think, the most important points that emerged from the press conference
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Obama may as well have held up a paper in hand saying,
“I have Mr. Hitler’s Signature on this agreement. This means PEACE IN OUR TIME!”
Clueless?
No.
Cheerleaders.
Propagandists.
Purveyors of tyranny and genocide.
No matter what he does.
He is their Marxist Messiah and he will always be made to look as if he walks on water, even when he is drowning the world and setting the board for our complete annihilation.
Cut and paste is your friend.
If it was such a great nuclear deal, why was the press conference immediately labeled defensive? If it is such a great nuclear deal, why did Odumbo threaten Congress with a veto immediately?
Sorry. Hadn’t had my morning coffee yet!
Those are no longer press conferences.
They are the Call To Prayer for Leftists.
“$100+ billion is a lot of money”
No kidding. Just think what that would do to help our own people.
The Iranians cannot and should never be trusted. My only hope is that someone will soon wake up to what a total disaster this “deal” truly is and then walk away from it. If Iran can walk away, the U.S. can also walk away as it should.
You can keep your doctor
You can keep your insurance
The fallacy in the Presidents argument over those held captive is that there is always going to be a price to be paid for their release. Upping the ante in the nuclear negotiations might actually be less than a stand alone negotiation. The clear answer is that outside back channel negotiations that are in the process of developing a release, there is no real reason to spend time, resources and political capital to get such a small return on the investment.
The real reason is that the USA was not driving the process. The Euros were driving the process and will get Iran back as a customer
The media is far more Americentric than it should be on the story
He really had to go!
OBAMA: No. Look, I’m always hopeful that behavior may change for the sake of the Iranian people as well as people in the region. There are young people there who are not getting the opportunities they deserve because of conflict, because of sectarianism, because of poor governance, because of repression, because of terrorism, and I remain eternally hopeful that we can do something about that, and it should be part of U.S. foreign policy to do something about that.
But I’m not banking on that to say that this deal is the right thing to do. Again, it is incumbent on the critics of this deal to explain how an American president is in a worse position 12, 13, 14, 15 years from now, if at that point, Iran says we’re going to pull out of the MPT, kick out inspectors and go for a nuclear bomb. If that happens, that president will be in a better position than would happen if Iran, as a consequence of Congress rejecting this deal, decides that’s it. We’re done negotiating. We’re going after a bomb right now.
The choices would be tougher today than they would be for that president 15 years from now. And I have not yet heard logic that refutes that. All right?
I really have to go now. I think we’ve hit the big themes, but I — but I promise you I will — I will address this again, all right? I suspect this is not the last that we’ve heard of this debate.
Major Harris is the exception. Did you see the look that Obama gave him? “How dare you ask me a hard question” ?
Sorry, that is Major Garrett who asked the honest question!
They are going after a bomb right now. And this deal gives them $100 billion to fund that effort. The deal is worthwhile for the Iranians for the money alone.
I like that. It should be used far and wide.
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