[Ooh-Ah]

NOTE: Bold emphasis above added...

[SoFloFreeper]

[GeronL]

He really is asking Israel to compromise with the mass murderers.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Delusional.

[timlilje]

Perhaps Netanyhu’s poll numbers are high because he actually REPELLED an invasion of his country unlike Obama?? When will these folks get it?

[JohnEBoy]

I cannot even get my head around the way he “thinks”. His high poll numbers are preventing him from “doing the right thing”! It’s like everything is upside down and inside out with Obama

Maybe his (Netanyahu’s) poll numbers are high because his people see him doing the right thing.

Typical backwards liberal thinking. Like when a state passes a concealed carry law and crime goes down, it confounds liberals ... they can’t explain it!

[depressed in 06]

Tweedledumb talking to Tweedledee.

[Blood of Tyrants]

At the end of the day, the president mused, the biggest threat to America — the only force that can really weaken us — is us the Tea Party. We have so many things going for us right now as a country — from new energy resources to innovation to a growing economy — but, he said, we will never realize our full potential unless our two parties adopt the same outlook as me

This is what he really means.

[lbryce]

I happen to come across this article while browsing, for a moment considered posting it but honest to God was so nauseated as I began reading it, I said,
NO WAY!I am going to be ZOTTED for this if I do.

[Will88]

The reason, the president added, “that we did not just start taking a bunch of airstrikes all across Iraq as soon as ISIL came in was because that would have taken the pressure off of [Prime Minister Nuri Kamal] al-Maliki.”

What an idiot. So he decided to allow the most vicious and determined gang of terrorists yet seen to just convoy and attack all over northern Iraq when the most damage could have been done to them with air strikes.

The "pressure" he claims he was putting on Maliki just left much of northern Iraq wide open for conquest. And they had the intelligence about ISIS weeks and months before they invaded Iraq.

[BlueStateRightist]

“Our politics are dysfunctional,” said the president, and we should heed the terrible divisions in the Middle East as a “warning to us: societies don’t work if political factions take maximalist positions. And the more diverse the country is, the less it can afford to take maximalist positions.”

Obamacare. Not one GOP vote. I guess YOU, Mr. President, have no trouble with “maximalist” positions.

[Larry381]

Tom Friedman, one of the few columnists who is wrong almost as often as Obama-I can see these two snuggling together on a loveseat at the Times arguing over who hates Israel more.

[csmusaret]

Obama says he regrets that he did not do in Libya what Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Friedman does not ask “What the hell did you just say?”.

[mojito]

There are so many heinous, hypocritical, nauseating things in this interview. I'll add one:

“Our politics are dysfunctional,” said the president, and we should heed the terrible divisions in the Middle East as a “warning to us: societies don’t work if political factions take maximalist positions. And the more diverse the country is, the less it can afford to take maximalist positions.”

While he blamed the rise of the Republican far right for extinguishing so many potential compromises, Obama also acknowledged that gerrymandering, the Balkanization of the news media and uncontrolled money in politics — the guts of our political system today — are sapping our ability to face big challenges together, more than any foreign enemy. “Increasingly politicians are rewarded for taking the most extreme maximalist positions,” he said, “and sooner or later, that catches up with you.”

[nascarnation]

ISIS stole a half billion dollars.
They are gonna be able to make Baraq a helluva deal to become Caliph in 2017.