Posted on 09/11/2012 11:37:48 AM PDT by pabianice
Edited on 09/11/2012 2:17:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The White House has brushed aside an offer by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with President Obama later this month, Israeli officials told Fox News. The apparent snub came despite a state of heightened alert over Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of Israeli action.
Sources said Netanyahu, though he plans to be in New York City during his brief stay, was offering to travel to D.C. to make the meeting happen. However, the White House apparently said Obama’s tight schedule – the president is in the middle of a feverish campaign schedule -- would make a meeting difficult.
The turn-down comes amid increasing international anxiety about Iran’s nuclear program. The U.N. reportedly has found new intelligence showing Iran is moving toward nuclear weapon capability.
But the exchange between the White House and the prime minister’s office is the most recent in what is seen as a cool, if not strained, relationship between Obama and Netanyahu, despite Israel being considered one of the United State’s closest allies.
One well-placed Jewish-American leader told Fox News that the White House has not yet fully ruled out moving things around on the schedule in order to accommodate Netanyahu – but that as of now, Obama is scheduled to be on the campaign trail during the window of time when Netanyahu can make it to Washington.
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Not to worry, he has my vote. He is going to win, but really I thought he was going to be much more aggressive than what he has been so far. It has been a week since Labor Day when he said he had a big money campaign full of commercials ready to go. I mean we can continue saying that people aren’t paying attention all the way to 6 November. We did that four years ago. It seems the cycle is always the same. No people are paying attention now and have been all Summer. Romney can no longer wait until “the right time” to start fighting.
Matt, I have been losing my net connection all day long since last night, but I had a sense of forboding that I could not shake. It looks to me as if obama is setting Israel up for a USS Liberty scenario by sending US troops to Egypt. If something breaks and Israel retaliates and American Servicemen are killed, ...
The outcome of something like that will give obama the excuse he needs to use NATO to punish Israel and it will give the anti-Israel contingent in the US and Europe cart blanche to attack us in the streets and anywhere else they can find us.
obama is now out to do as much damage as he can do before the election and afterwards. He must know he is going to lose. I fear this man. He is crazy!
“Starting to wonder if he just doesn’t give a s**t about re-election any more.”
Obama is being replaced by a smoother operator. He is scripted to lose.
Obama knows the media has his back.
“Why is Netanyahu trying to meet with the enemy?”
Probably to tell him what Mossad has on him.
Romney has my vote too. I live in SoCal so unfortunately you know how this state votes, but I will still vote because I have to, I have to do everything possible to save this country. Was Romney the best choice? No, but he is the only choice because if some people stay home and dont vote for him and Obama wins, America is finished and so is Israel. Israel is getting closer to striking Iran, that is what Im hearing, I just hope and pray that more Jews just wake the hell up and realize that the Democrat Party is NOT the party that supports Israel, they want their destruction
And your right, Romney needs to fight more, for some reason he’s not, maybe it’s not in his nature to do so but he better start doing it
Think about it...
* Bibi was an Israeli Bad @$$ soldier, a warrior.
* He knows Obama doesn't need any bad support news of Israel at this juncture....
* But he can't help himself, we know he dislikes Bibi and probably hates Israel, so he snubs him...
* I'd say Bibi sprung a trap that he can't get out of to further errode Jewish Support for BHO for Nov. 6th...
God ! I don’t think I have ever had such negative feelings towards a POTUS.
He’s an absolute disgrace.
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And your right, Romney needs to fight more, for some reason he’s not, maybe it’s not in his nature to do so but he better start doing it.
If we could just get him to pretend that Obama is a conservative, then Obama would be toast. That is what KILLS me about his entire approach. He slautered every conservative he came in contact with starting with Sarah and went through them one by one including Newt, Santorum, Paul, good Lord look what he did to Perry and on and on.
R/R are stupid and their handlers are stupid if they don’t meet w/ Netanyahu instead...they would be just stupid if they don’t use this as campaign fodder. Laura Ingraham and Bucchanan today were all over the padded glove treatment...time to stop.
R/R are stupid and their handlers are stupid if they don’t meet w/ Netanyahu instead...they would be just stupid if they don’t use this as campaign fodder. Laura Ingraham and Bucchanan today were all over the padded glove treatment...time to stop.
TeamØbama thanks you for your support !
Today alone, Mitt has gotten three hanging curve balls from Obama.
1. The attack on the US Embassy in Cairo
2. Snubbing Bibi
3. Going on the radio with “DJ Pimp with the Limp” on 9/11.
none of that matters, all that matters is Romney would be worse.. (sarc again)
Part of me says it’s staged for Obama to “let” Israel attack Iran, part of me says it really is Islamic terror.
MR wasn't my pick either, but it is what it is.
A curse upon his house in any way that God sees fit.
Newt was at the convention. He gave a Reagan tribute speech with his wife. It was pretty good.
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