Posted on 07/30/2012 4:32:31 PM PDT by opentalk
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Unlike the classic Dickens work, this week's presidential campaign was a tale of one city Jerusalem, and the different way it was handled by the two different campaigns, One handled it as if this was the age of foolishness, the other as the age of wisdom.
One refused to give its position on Israels capital publicly; the other stood in front of the panorama of the holy city over his shoulder and pronounced the city Israels capital. During Thursdays daily press briefing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney wouldnt answer a simple question and turned the Q & A session into something out of an Abbot and Costello routine:
Reporter: What city does this Administration consider to be the capital of Israel? Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?Carney then moved on to another question.Jay Carney: Um... I haven't had that question in a while. Our position has not changed. Can we, uh...
Reporter: What is the capital [of Israel]? Jay Carney: You know our position.
Reporter: I don't.
Lester Kinsolving, World Net Daily: No, no. She doesn't know, that's why she asked.
Carney: She does know.
Reporter: I don't.
Kinsolving: She does not know. She just said that she does not know. I don't know.
Carney: We have long, lets not call on...
Kinsolving: Tel Aviv or Jerusalem?
Carney: You know the answer to that.
Kinsolving: I don't know the answer. We don't know the answer. Could you just give us an answer? What do you recognize? What does the administration recognize?
Carney: Our position has not changed.
Kinsolving: What position?
Jay Carney refused to outline the Presidents position on Jerusalem because the truth would be damaging to the campaign.
The Presidents Position is whatever the Muslims tell him it is.
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