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White House: Netanyahu Visit a ‘Departure from Protocol’ (well done, Mr. Speaker!!)
breitbart.com ^ | 1/21/15 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 01/21/2015 11:15:01 AM PST by cotton1706

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news that House Speaker John Boehner had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress, calling it a “departure from protocol.”

“The typical protocol would suggest that the leader of a country would contact the leader of another country when he is traveling there and that’s certainly is how President Obama’s trips are planned when we travel overseas,” he said. “This particular event seems to be a departure from that protocol.”

Netanyahu’s visit was announced earlier this morning after Obama’s State of the Union address. Earnest said that the White House found out about the trip shortly before Boehner’s announcement.

Earnest said that the White House “hadn’t heard directly from the Israelis at all” and didn’t know if the Prime Minster would be visiting the White House during his trip.

“We’ll need to hear from them about what their plans are and what he plans to say in his remarks to Congress before we have a decision to make about any meeting,” Earnest explained, pointing out that the White House would “reserve judgement” about the trip until they had conversations with Israeli officials.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Israel; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; War on Terror
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To: cotton1706

“Departure from Protocol”? Maybe not. The Prime Minister of Israel is the Head of Government and not the Head of State.


61 posted on 01/21/2015 12:21:27 PM PST by captain_dave
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To: vg0va3

Cotton 1706, I wouldn’t put anything past our very thin skinned pretend president......As we have all learned, it’s all about him. I can’t wait for the day when we won’t have to see Obama on the TV day in and day out.


62 posted on 01/21/2015 12:28:07 PM PST by kagnew
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To: cotton1706

Hope he is coming to say that Israel will go it alone. If he is coming to get us into war, I hope the audience hasn’t received enough campaign funds to make that happen. Another war is existential for us. China and Russia are waiting in the wings and we have to borrow from China for expenses. It has taken us some 10 years to fight a bunch of enemies who depend on improvising weapons and suicide vests. They ain’t Russia or China. Say it ain’t so Bibi.


63 posted on 01/21/2015 12:30:46 PM PST by ex-snook (God forgives because God is Love)
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To: cotton1706

Hopefully this is only the beginning in undermining the usurper-in-chief.


64 posted on 01/21/2015 12:32:53 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: cotton1706

Perhaps he is finally learning what is really going on in America.
Call it a dream....


65 posted on 01/21/2015 12:37:43 PM PST by Zathras
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To: cotton1706

He should have invited him to the State of the Union also!

Imagine what a distraction that would have been.


66 posted on 01/21/2015 1:02:12 PM PST by Doghunter
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To: cotton1706

Early elections for the twentieth Knesset will be held in Israel on 17 March 2015. Obama has been trying to undermine Bibi and Likud. I love this!


67 posted on 01/21/2015 1:13:27 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Where does it say that the President has to vet the remarks to Congress and visits of a foreign dignitary?

Nowhere, especially when regime flunkies have smeared the foreign dignitary with unwarranted insults. Obama is getting a small object lesson in separation of powers, and Boehner gets credit for doing something right.

68 posted on 01/21/2015 1:14:01 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: cotton1706

Someone should have asked Josh the Liar for Emperor Nero
what protocol it was that Nero talked Prime Minister David Cameron into Lobbying Senate Members to halt any Sanction Legislation against Iran just a week or two ago.


69 posted on 01/21/2015 1:14:26 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Dick Bachert

Excellent. But don’t bet the ranch that John Boy has mended his ways. He just wanted to shove something large up BO’s rear and Bibi drew the short straw!
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Prudent warning.


70 posted on 01/21/2015 1:14:40 PM PST by Artcore
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To: cotton1706

Barack the Irrelevant.


71 posted on 01/21/2015 1:21:58 PM PST by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: cotton1706
“We’ll need to hear from them about what their plans are and what he plans to say in his remarks to Congress before we have a decision to make about any meeting,”

Wow, just wow. Political speech is one thing but public international political speech is something totally different.

I can not believe this is what was said out in the open.

72 posted on 01/21/2015 1:22:28 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: hoosiermama

Oh yeah!


73 posted on 01/21/2015 2:50:22 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: cotton1706
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74 posted on 01/21/2015 6:33:25 PM PST by MtnMan101
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To: Slyfox
It was so important to force the Israeli PM to use the refuse entrance. If it necessary to demonstrate in front of the White House let's leave bags of garbage at the gate. Obola could use the reminder.


75 posted on 01/21/2015 8:12:33 PM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: cotton1706
Excellent! How absolutely chutzpahdik, Odungo citing a "departure from protocol" when he wrote the book on that very issue. Since when has Odungo followed protocol? Or the Constitution? Or any law he felt like breaking? Let Bibi come and show Odungo how a real man conducts himself.
76 posted on 01/21/2015 11:36:22 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Timocrat

Bibi as PM is Head of Government in Israel, thus considered the ‘leader’. Rivlin as President is merely Head of State, ceremonial figurehead.


77 posted on 01/22/2015 7:33:01 AM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: CodeToad

The position of POTUS is both Head of State and Head of Government, so, for better of worse, leader of the US.


78 posted on 01/22/2015 8:01:43 AM PST by Ready4Freddy
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Obama was probably in on the multinational terrorist plan to start a new war with Israel, during which he'd use his usual overreach to deny aid while being unavailable for comment due to golf (or due to summit meetings with his fellow western hemisphere despots, or both). The Israelis used a grenade and a funnel on that plan, and now Speaker Boehner has humiliated Zero, Plus, Lurch, Jarrett and the rest with this invitation. *This* was the correct Republican response to the SOTU.
79 posted on 01/22/2015 9:49:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Ready4Freddy

You might want to check your civics knowledge and try again.


80 posted on 01/22/2015 11:53:28 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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