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Tom Cotton Rips Obama's Foreign Policy Team of 'Van Drivers and Campaign Flacks ..."
Weekly Standard ^ | May 17, 2016

Posted on 05/18/2016 7:44:27 AM PDT by nuconvert

Tom Cotton Rips Obama's Foreign Policy Team of 'Van Drivers and Campaign Flacks and Failed Novelists'

'As if any of them had ever seen anything more dangerous than a shoving match ...'

Arkansas senator Tom Cotton hammered the president's foreign policy staff Tuesday morning, explaining why he's become "public enemy number one at the White House" over his opposition to the Iran deal.

"I guess I became public enemy number one at the White House because I'm telling the truth about the Iran deal. Look, what you just played, and some of the coverage of Ben Rhodes is what happens when you put van drivers and campaign flacks and failed novelists in charge of foreign policy and national security," Cotton told radio host Hugh Hewitt, after Hewitt played a clip of White House press secretary Josh Earnest rejecting Cotton's arguments about the Iran deal.

"And that chump may think that subsidizing Iran's nuclear program with millions of dollars is a laughing matter. I don't think it's that funny. And if he or anyone else over there had ever been man enough to put on the uniform and pick up a rifle, and have to lead men in dodging Iranian-made bombs, they might not be laughing, either," the freshman senator added.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benrhodes; classifiedbriefings; cotton; irandeal; obama; obamaforeignpolicy; obamairandeal; obamalies; tomcotton
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1 posted on 05/18/2016 7:44:27 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Van Drivers?

That’s Rasis!


2 posted on 05/18/2016 7:45:46 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: headstamp 2

He means this idiot ..... who called Fox's Brett Baier a "dude" during a TV
interview. This creature was actually Boobamba's driver----was given top
security status....even sat in the Situation Room.

He is the same genius who rolled out Hillary's book Hard Choices....the biggest bomb in publishing.

3 posted on 05/18/2016 7:56:21 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: nuconvert

Cotton is Club for Growth and a Harvard grad. Wonder if he’s goin’ for a makeover.


4 posted on 05/18/2016 7:56:46 AM PDT by grania
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To: nuconvert

When Senator Cotton speaks, everyone should listen....he is not your usual politician, he is honest.


5 posted on 05/18/2016 7:58:06 AM PDT by yoe
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If Cotton wants to be really useful, he should demand to see the solicitation letters Boobamba is sending out----raising funds on his Iran deal for his two foundations and his post-prez billion-dollar Chicago library.

Check whether Boobo's got lucrative speaking engagements lined up WRT the Iran deal, as well.

And whether Boobo's got insider business deals lined up.

6 posted on 05/18/2016 8:00:00 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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Hillary's choice for VP (smirk)?


7 posted on 05/18/2016 8:02:34 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: yoe

He also served in Iraq & Afghanistan


8 posted on 05/18/2016 8:07:19 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Liz

Satan rewards his disciples. However, as Jesus once said, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?”


9 posted on 05/18/2016 8:08:21 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Dogbert41

Amen.


10 posted on 05/18/2016 8:09:34 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: nuconvert

The fact the spokesmodel, Josh Earnest, had to make it personal toward Tom Cotten was beneath contempt. They know they lied, and can’t walk that back as it is supposed to be Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement (?!?).

They really should leave Tom Cotten alone. In the court of public opinion, he would win for several reasons.


11 posted on 05/18/2016 8:14:50 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: nuconvert

Tom Cotton attended the anti-trump meeting with the big Dems in March on Sea Island,GA.

Anyone know why?

I have a trust problem with him now.


12 posted on 05/18/2016 8:23:01 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: grania; yoe

“Cotton is Club for Growth and a Harvard grad. Wonder if he’s goin’ for a makeover.”

GOPe weasel Hugh Hewitt has been featuring Tom Cotton since before Cotton ran for the Senate. And Tom Cotton attended the Sea Island “stop Trump” meeting as well.

Cotton’s choice of political friends is a red flag.


13 posted on 05/18/2016 8:27:50 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: nuconvert

The Iran deal’s a crime...


14 posted on 05/18/2016 8:29:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (Moms stripping daughters naked for strange men would be arrested EXCEPT in Target dressing rooms.)
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To: exit82

Maybe Cotton is more conservative than Trump?


15 posted on 05/18/2016 8:33:22 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Some of you Trump guys would probably rip Jesus if he can back to earth . . . for attending a heaven-based Chamber of Commerce meeting!

Rip Tom Cotton????

I guess the old saying about GLASS HOUSES doesn’t apply to any of you?

Cotton was singled out as a nuisance to the Obama team’s agenda and you are SLAMMING him for an ECONOMIC meeting?

Morons.


16 posted on 05/18/2016 8:38:47 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: nuconvert

Uhhh, conservatives don’t pow-wow with big money Dems.

Especially to take out the people’s choice.


17 posted on 05/18/2016 8:40:38 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: LRoggy

Maybe you need to address your comment to Exit82.
I am NOT slamming Cotton. I like him very much.


18 posted on 05/18/2016 9:22:38 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: exit82

“conservatives don’t pow-wow with big money Dems.”

Well, that certainly disqualifies Trump from being a conservative.


19 posted on 05/18/2016 9:24:25 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Trump has more conservative positions than his 16 rivals and the rest of the GOP.

Jeff Sessions and Sarah Palin thinks he is plenty conservative enough.

They evidently did not think so about the #2 guy.


20 posted on 05/18/2016 9:28:18 AM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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