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OBAMA, BOB MENENDEZ FIGHT OVER IRAN SANCTIONS GETS PERSONAL
BreitBart ^ | 16 Jan 15 | Dan Reihl

Posted on 01/24/2015 7:25:57 AM PST by LSUfan

Everyone involved seems to be trying to put the best face on it, but Barack Obama went so far as to suggest senior Democrats like Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who take a hard line on Iran, are doing so purely to appease their donors.

Obama said that as a former senator himself, he understood how outside forces — like special interests and donors — can influence senators to act, one of the senators recounted.

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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Melendez’ skeletons are almost certain to tumble out of the closet first. Not as a matter of who has the most moxie, but who has the supporter with the deeper pockets.

Besides, Valerie Jarrett WANTS the Current Occupant to keep the sanctions pretty loose on the Iranians, doncha know, and she is the one calling the shots in the Oval Orifice.


21 posted on 01/24/2015 8:29:04 AM PST by alloysteel (Je suis Charlie)
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To: livius

Yeah, he’s just wants to sell us out to Mexico!


22 posted on 01/24/2015 8:29:58 AM PST by FES0844
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To: LSUfan

Time for someone to seriously interview the CIA Director on this topic and ask if the President is basing his statement regarding Iran’s nuclear program on his agency’s assessment.


23 posted on 01/24/2015 8:50:31 AM PST by detch
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To: bonehead4freedom; piasa; Travis McGee; GladesGuru
I'm trying to figure out the end game here. Obama wants to set up Islam as the dominate world power of that there can be no doubt. But which Muslim sect? He's trying hard to help Iran get the bomb (Shiite) yet opposed Assad (Alawaite Shia ally) in favor of the rebels (Sunni) and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (Sunni). If he leans towards the Sunni as I suspect then why help the heretic Shia get the bomb? What is it that's not visible?

I pondered that for a while. Taking the historic long view, this looks to me like a conflation of Hegelian, Masonic, Jesuit, and Islamic eschatological fantasies: Out of the mortal struggle between Sunnia and Shia arises the Twelfth Imam to conquer the world and bring on the Apocalypse.

Or something like that. ;-)

24 posted on 01/24/2015 9:03:56 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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To: LSUfan

why not just blow Iran off the face of the map. just leave it a sand desert. nothing for miles. that would end alot of the terrorism no money coming from Iran. It makes no sense that Europe gets its oil from Iran and gets its terrorists attacks funded by Iran too.. So in essence Europe is funding its own attacks.


25 posted on 01/24/2015 9:20:12 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: LSUfan
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26 posted on 01/24/2015 9:26:19 AM PST by MtnMan101
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To: MtnMan101

That’s actually one of the best looking pics of ValJ I’ve seen.
And still blown away that she has Ahmad Rashad as her boyfriend.
Truly must have superpowers, LOL.


27 posted on 01/24/2015 9:29:12 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: bonehead4freedom

“What is it that’s not visible?”

The money. US and European companies are slavering to set up trade deals with Iran. Reason why Cameron was lobbying Congress and appeared alongside Obama, in order to oppose sanctions.


28 posted on 01/24/2015 9:41:40 AM PST by BusterBear
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To: LSUfan
The problem here is that the Briebart article is not accurate, so you don't really know what is going on.

The legislation originated in Dec 2013 and extended into 2014 before it died.

At that time the dems controlled the Senate and Menendez was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Republican Mark Kirk was co-author but Menendez was the author and he brought it out of his committee. The Realists opposed the legislation and they were led by republican Corker.

But Reid(Senate Majority leader) would not let the legislation onto the floor of the Senate so it died.

So the GOP won the senate and McConnell(now Senate majority leaded) said he would let Menendez's bill onto the senate floor.

Except there is a problem, Corker is now chairman of the committee and still opposed to Menedez's bill so he wouldn't let it out of committee. Instead, Corker brought his own bill out of committee.

So to get around that, Menendez's bill was brought out of Republican Kirk's committee.

So it is now Republican Kirk's bill versus Republican Corker's bill.

And to make it more complicated, McCain and Graham have switched and now support Corker's bill.

McConnell is in a tight spot because he can go with either Kirk's bill, Corker's bill, or try to merge the two into one.

Whatever bill the end up passing, Obama will veto it so McConnell has to go with whatever has the beast chance of getting the 67 votes needed to override Obama's veto

29 posted on 01/24/2015 9:50:15 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Carry_Okie

Helping spur the arrival of the Mahdi maybe but Obama wants to help establish the caliphate not turn Islamic lands into a nuclear wasteland. However the Shia Twelver movement thinks that’s how to get the Mahdi to reveal himself.


30 posted on 01/24/2015 9:52:46 AM PST by bonehead4freedom
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To: BusterBear
That is part of it but there's more to it than that. Valarie Jarrett is a Shia and is the handler but Obama has always been funded and supported by Sunnis from his college days. It's something going on but it's not obvious what.
31 posted on 01/24/2015 10:00:53 AM PST by bonehead4freedom
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To: All

can someone please explain to me, why, if Obama is trying to have islam dominate the world, and is also an anti semite, that all the jews around him like axlerod etc, don’t care about this.


32 posted on 01/24/2015 10:15:11 AM PST by willywill
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To: FES0844

Better Mexico than Islam. You may not like Mexico, but we have the basis of a common Western Christian cultural background.

Personally, I think Islam will have taken over here in the US within the next ten years unless we start resisting now. I’m sure Barry would like to see it installed as the government within the next two years, so he can point to it as his great achievement when he leaves office.


33 posted on 01/24/2015 10:17:44 AM PST by livius
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To: LSUfan

The problem is not enough millions of Jews even care.


34 posted on 01/24/2015 10:43:53 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: X-spurt

The dems may have a crawl full. But Obama has an NSA file full.


35 posted on 01/24/2015 10:45:45 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: bonehead4freedom

If a nuke went off in Iran can you imagine how many muzzies would be claiming to be the Twelfer?


36 posted on 01/24/2015 10:50:43 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: LSUfan

Running out of people to alienate Barack Obama turns to his own party. :-)


37 posted on 01/24/2015 10:53:12 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: bonehead4freedom
Helping spur the arrival of the Mahdi maybe but Obama wants to help establish the caliphate not turn Islamic lands into a nuclear wasteland.

Given that this is an "out of the ashes" fantasy, I think it logically consistent. That doesn't mean it's not a stupid idea. :-)

38 posted on 01/24/2015 11:04:07 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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To: livius
Funny how much Odummy’s comment parallels the one made by Bohner about the tea party lobbyists.
39 posted on 01/24/2015 11:16:49 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“Barry is warming up for his Saudi visit.”

Iran is Saudi’s arch nemesis. If anything, obola would have piled on Iran before visiting Saudi Arabia.

There is more to this. Persian Empire is in the making and obola clearly wants that to happen.


40 posted on 01/24/2015 11:18:09 AM PST by sagar
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