"...and on page 4 it says here that a Chupacabra lands on the Mother Wheel in ORBIT..? Ben, I, uh...."
Posted on 09/17/2019 8:16:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
These days, Ben Rhodes is criticizing the Trump administration's response to the coordinated drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has directly implicated Iran in the attack—Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen officially claimed responsibility—Rhodes wants to see some evidence that his former negotiating partners are, in fact, bad actors on the world stage.
Ben Rhodes
From the people who change the course of hurricanes with sharpies and have wrongly accused Iran of things in the past, I’d like to see the evidence that Iran actually launched these attacks https://twitter.com/joyce_karam/status/1172968900579024896 …
Noah Pollak
Ladies, find yourself a man who loves you like Ben Rhodes loves the Iranian regime https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1172970423635648514 …
Ben Rhodes
It would be good to hear from all the Democratic candidates on this. We should not go to war for the Saudis. We should not be supporting their war in Yemen. We should not have pulled out of the Iran Deal. https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1173429569120026624 …
Beto O'Rourke
As President I will not go to war for Saudi Arabia, nor will I let Saudi Arabia dictate our foreign policy.
Rhodes had previously bragged about creating an "echo chamber" of Iran deal cheerleaders in the national media by spinning sympathetic reporters who "literally know nothing."
Rhodes might want to consider sitting out future foreign policy debates. Perhaps the author of "The Goldfish Smiles, You Smile Back" (The Beloit Fiction Journal, 2002) could rekindle his dream of becoming a novelist, and spare the rest of us his thoughts on the reality he helped create.
When is he coming out with his next science fiction screenplay, I wonder..?
"...and on page 4 it says here that a Chupacabra lands on the Mother Wheel in ORBIT..? Ben, I, uh...."
I have socks older than him.................
This is the same genius who did not realize until weeks AFTER Trump’s victory that it was possible to beat Hillary by linking her to a corrupt establishment.
Just as he himself had done when running Obama’s campaign against her.
Ahhhhhh.....
Ben is an MFA.
And yes, that stands for exactly what you think it stands for.
President Obama was probably very, very confident Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election. Nevertheless, he took unprecedented steps to stump for his former secretary of state. In the end, he couldn’t drag her over the finish line. She went down in defeat. It was one of the biggest political upsets in American history. It was a punch to the mouth of liberal America. The rural voter had his/her revenge. The urban elites were silenced.
The irony is this tribalism, this electorate, was not the one Obama was trying to nurture or preserve; he wanted to change our politics, remember? Did he go too far? That’s what he was left grappling with when it was clear that Hillary Clinton would never become president. Obama urged Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be more vocal about defending their shared values, Angela Merkel told the soon-to-be-ex-president that she felt obligated to run for another term in Germany due to Trump’s win.
“She’s all alone,” Obama remarked in his final meeting with her. Yet, the former president also wondered if he pushed too far, reinforcing the old divisions of Left and Right.
Well, when you push anti-gun policies, like about health care reform, and dither on Syria and Crimea—yeah, you are going to legitimize what people have been saying about the Democratic Party: they’re left wing policies are ruinously expensive, they’re weak abroad, and attack the cultural core of rural voters. In this case, it was gun ownership.
Obama’s former foreign policy guru, Ben Rhodes, has his book coming out, where he also says he can’t shake the notion that he didn’t see Trump’s victory coming. Yeah, a little Monday morning quarterback here, but he admits that at its core, Trump ran on the same message they did in 2008 that slayed Clinton: she’s part of the swamp and can’t be trusted to bring change. As Obama was left devastated by Trump’s win, his aides assured him that he would have won a third term if the Constitution permitted it, and that Millennials are more aligned with his agenda (via NYT): Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory.
“What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine.
He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.”
His aides reassured him that he still would have won had he been able to run for another term and that the next generation had more in common with him than with Mr. Trump. Mr. Obama, the first black man elected president, did not seem convinced. “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,” he said. […]
Set to be published next week by Random House, Mr. Rhodes’s memoir, “The World as It Is,” offers a peek into Mr. Obama’s tightly sealed inner sanctum from the perspective of one of the few people who saw him up close through all eight years of his presidency. Few moments shook Mr. Obama more than the decision by voters to replace him with a candidate who had questioned his very birth. […]
Obama and his team were confident that Mrs. Clinton would win and, like much of the country, were shocked when she did not. “I couldn’t shake the feeling that I should have seen it coming,” Mr. Rhodes writes. “Because when you distilled it, stripped out the racism and misogyny, we’d run against Hillary eight years ago with the same message Trump had used: She’s part of a corrupt establishment that can’t be trusted to bring change.”
Yet, Rhodes and Obama were left stunned by the 2016 results. It’s a prime window into the insight of the Left’s elite members, stunned that their condescending attitude, the lecturing, and the pervasive apathy towards those who don’t live in cities somehow came back to bite them in the ass.
I think what’s more stinging is that millions of Obama voters flipped for Trump. Hope and change was shot up like Swiss cheese. Make America Great Again had overtaken it. Yeah, I guess for a man who had built a virtually unbeatable voter coalition would be left adrift by these results, but because of that—let us give thanks that we have term limits.
Today, the Left still hasn’t learned.
Simple outreach to white working class voters on jobs, trade, job protections, and being proud to be an American get your foot in the door. This isn’t a hard voter bloc to win over. They’ve voted for both parties in past elections. Instead, Democrats would rather consider them to be irremediable racists, a batch of deplorables - which is the mentality that contributed to their 2016 loss.
Sources and methods, Ben. STFU.
Houthi/Iran what’s the difference? Where dies thia douche nozzle think the money comes from? Furthermore, only an idiot could think the Houthi developed missile firing long range drones in house to begin with?
Ben needs to stick a sharpie up his Obama.
Ben is an MFA.
And yes, that stands for exactly what you think it stands for.
mother F*()() A hole …??
No more calls folks!
We have a winner!
Lol! I have socks smarter than him...
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