The Man Who Never Calls

SteynOnline ^ | July 24, 2014 | Mark Steyn

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There was an odd moment during Tuesday's White House press briefing when Ed Henry of Fox News noted that the President was spending three out of five days this week fundraising for his party, and wondered, in effect, whether he still did any work.
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Shuttle diplomacy, of the kind the vainglorious Kerry is attempting, only works if you already have a relationship. You can't start trying to build one after the shooting's started. And in this case the regional leaders' crude self-interest outweighs whatever value they might place on staying on the right side of President Fundraiser and Secretary Windsurfer. General Sisi wants to destroy the Brotherhood in Egypt, to which Hamas has significant ties. The Saudis are Israel's new best friend and see them as their last chance to scuttle Iran's nuclear ambitions. So we are in a bizarre situation where the Arab leaders are more hostile to Hamas than Washington is.
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Mark Steyn weighs in, read the full article at his website. Love the poem at the end:

Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence:

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Thus John Kerry, in Jerusalem and Cairo and beyond.

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[Osage Orange]

You can't start trying to build one after the shooting's started. And in this case the regional leaders' crude self-interest outweighs whatever value they might place on staying on the right side of President Fundraiser and Secretary Windsurfer.

ROFLOL!!!!

[NewHampshireDuo]

Ping for later

[laplata]

The only thing Obama is good at is No Good.

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[yldstrk]

that is hilarious

[SJackson]

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[DJ Frisat]

If you haven't gone to the link to read the article, you should at least take a look at the picture of Kerry and an obviously-annoyed Bibi Netanyho.

You rarely see a picture that so accurately exposes a man's innermost feelings!

[NonValueAdded]

Indeed, Cheney-esque it was.

[BulletBobCo]

Good read. Was going to post and saw you already have.

[JLS]

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Thanks for the ing NonValueAdded.

[Rummyfan]

In the new Middle East, everyone and his uncle has an Obama-Clinton "Reset" button and they've pressed it.

But they're not Jews. So nobody minds, and no preening Botoxicated buffoon of an American emissary comes to lecture them.

[tdscpa]

Love it? Are you not disturbed that he does not credit the author?