Posted on 05/26/2011 7:46:57 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
Of all the petty annoyances, misdemeanors and felonies of public life, there is none that Barack Obama detests more than to have his words twisted or oversimplified. It is a big part of his frustration with the media; it is a bigger part of his disdain for the talk-show wing of the Republican Party. And so it wasnt hard to imagine smoke jetting from the Presidents ears as Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, willfully misinterpreted Obamas statement about the need to renegotiate Israels borders — in Obamas presence, in the Oval Office on May 20. The President had said that a two-state solution, which Netanyahu alleges to support, should be based on the pre-1967 borders, with mutually agreed-upon land swaps that would enable Israel to incorporate the vast majority of its — dare I say — illegal settlements into its territory while giving over equal amounts of Israeli turf to the Palestinians.
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The swapping of borderlands was at the heart of Bill Clintons nearly successful attempt to negotiate a peace deal in 2000. It was at the heart of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts nearly successful effort to negotiate peace with the Palestinians in 2008.
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Why on earth would Bibi Netanyahu choose to be so boorish and provocative? Because he can be.
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He also has a stronger argument this time around. The apparent reconciliation of the Palestinian factions allows Netanyahu to focus on Israels greatest fear: when push comes to shove, the Palestinians have never really acknowledged Israels right to exist.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Didn’t Obama in his second speech call for connecting Gaza and the West Bank?? Slicing Israel in half isn’t going to affect security at all?.
“misrepresent” means tell the truth
This is some funny stuff!
Rarely have I seen such groveling from a columnist. I think Klein’s been sharing a hot tub with Barry.
Time=The death rattle of the American weekly news magazine.
IOW, never accept O's words at face value. He is ever so nuanced as to say precisely what he does not mean. A sign of great intelligence, or bilious dyspepsia.
How does that maxim relate to Joe Klein's article?
First, the article is simply factually wrong. It was not Be Be Netanyahu who misrepresented Obama's remarks but Obama himself who misrepresented his own remarks as he walked them back. So what prompted Joe Klein to write lies?
If one recalls Joe Klein was the anonymous author of Primary Colors an account of the emerging Bill Clinton which nailed Clinton for the utter fraud that he was but forgave him all because of Clinton's poignant empathy for African-Americans which obviously profoundly impressed Joe Klein.
Joe Klein is the blatant example of left-wing American journalism that is utterly in the tank for Barack Obama because Obama is liberal and black. Klein would accept any fault in Bill Clinton because Clinton was later to be defined as the first black president. So, Klein will excuse any fault, commit any journalistic sin, to defend the first real black president.
There is nothing, repeat nothing, in Joe Klein's world that cannot be rationalized by way of racial politics.
Netanyahu: So, you are saying you want Israel to go back to the 1967 borders.
Joe Klein: STOP MISREPRESENTING WHAT OBAMA SAID!!!!!
Is it the case that Barry was a not-yet-6 year old during the Six Day War in June 1967, and living in (or headed to) Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation?
Who knew that Obama and Newt suffer from the same "I am so brilliant, common people don't understand me, so I have to re-explain myself repeatedly" disorder?
Oh yeah? Ubama was pretty darn clear about "hope" and "change", wasn't he?
F.A.R.T. alert!
The old Soviet Union Pravda was more critical of their leaders than the current MSM journo-lists are of Barky.
ummm...thanks for the warning?!?
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