Posted on 03/02/2015 4:36:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Susan Rice, President Obama’s National Security Advisor, told TV talk show host Charlie Rose that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech before Congress about Iran is “destructive” to the relationship between the United States and Israel.
What is going on? The National Security Advisor is just that – an advisor. It is not a cabinet post, nor a position of authority. It is not an appointment that requires confirmation of Congress. The president picks this individual to serve as a staff advisor on national security affairs.
So who is Susan Rice to be hitting the media and defining the nature of relations between the United States and it’s principle friend and ally in the Middle East – the only free nation in that part of the world?
In a new poll from Gallup, 70 percent of Americans express a favorable opinion of Israel, unchanged from where it stood same time last year. Gallup concludes that “the evident friction between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” has not “affected how each is perceived in the US.”
So why is Susan Rice, an unelected, unconfirmed, White House bureaucrat appearing in the media, defining the nature of relations between these two important free world allies? And doing so inaccurately?
To suggest, as Ms. Rice and others have, that somehow the prime minster’s acceptance of this invitation to speak from House Speaker John Boehner is partisan, because Boehner is a Republican, is like saying that accepting an invitation from the president for a meeting in the White House is partisan because Barack Obama is a Democrat.
We are talking here about the functioning of the American government.
Last November the American people spoke and delivered decisive victories to Republicans, giving them control of both houses of congress. Americans said boldly and clearly that they want a different point of view than that of the White House controlling congress.
Public approval of President Obama’s conducting of foreign affairs has dropped precipitously since the beginning of his presidency. In early 2009, approval of the President’s handling of foreign affairs, according to Gallup, was 59 percent. The latest poll puts it at 36 percent.
And, in a new Pew Research Center poll, 48 percent say Republicans do a better job on foreign policy issues compared to 35 percent that prefer Democrats.
So the logic and reasonableness of John Boehner’s invitation to the Israeli Prime Minister is clear as a bell.
Couple all this with the issue on the table, the agreement being negotiated with Iran regarding its nuclear capability, that is very complicated and very risky – that the Israeli PM thinks is a bad deal - makes it all the sense in the world for the American people to get another well-informed opinion.
Secretary of State Kerry just testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee saying that “Israel is safer today….” because of the deals this administration is cutting with Iran that Netanyahu opposes.
Can John Kerry really be serious that he knows better what makes Israel safe than Israel’s own Prime Minister?”
The President has a bully pulpit waiting for him whenever he wants to use it to explain to the American people why he doesn’t want Benjamin Netanyahu to give this speech.
Instead of shooting straight with us, the president is sending out his foot soldiers, his proxies, Democrats in Congress, including the black Caucus, to do his business for him, with flimsy explanations.
What’s up with our President? And what’s up with the press? Why aren’t they asking penetrating questions?
All of us recall as students reading about the tragedies in history and asking how they could have happened, why they weren’t prevented.
We should hear the Israeli Prime Minster’s concerns.
And our president, himself, should tell the American people why he so opposes this very sensible speech.
That's why the White House is so scared. Bibi will knock the ball out of the park!
The actions of the White House smack of desperation.
The actions of the White House smack of desperation.
Obama has backed Israel and Bibi into a corner and a cornered animal is a fearsome thing (particularly when God is on its side).
Because he no longer feels he has to hide his true intentions
I suspect that Mossad has a basketful of the dirtiest of Obama’s laundry, probably the entire text of the secret treaty that Obama has made with Iran that allows them unrestricted development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology that would allow them to make ICBMs that could even threaten the US.
And this is assuming that Obama hasn’t been pipelining them that technology, to help them build a “Shiite bomb”.
Because, the One can brook no opposition.
Yeah the Crip or Blood version of disrespect is not getting what widdo baby wants............I see it all the time in my cases.
But but but obama is great speaker, remember when he said a kid with asthma would be given a breathalyzer?
“Why Does President So Oppose Netanyahu’s Speech?”.......
This question will be posted on all third grade classes “Question of the Day” bulletin board tomorrow AM. All children are expected to get an “A”.
Simple.
The elected President of a free Republic, a JEWISH Free Republic, is stepping onto the soil of the just-conquered, and declared mohammedan territory, once called the home of the leader of the Free World.
Obama’s a wannabe black. I have more soul than him!
Yes she was. To American parents. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a teacher. ValJar and her family moved to London when she was five and to Chicago when she was six.
I have no more use for ValJar than you do. Source.
The PM is Jewish, the Pres is Muslim. Simple.
Ultimately, because he hates God.
But, he can’t do much more than shake his fist at Him,
so, instead he attacks His people.
I agree. His speech is a wildcard, given that no one knows what he’ll say.
But the Obama Admin knows what he *could* say. And that scares the Hell out of them. An Israel PM, speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives to a Joint Meeting of Congress, uses the opportunity to start dropping dirty laundry ...
He is nothing but a black dude with a huge chip on his shoulder out to teach whitey a lesson. I agree that he hates disrespect, but everything he does is an attempt to destroy all things created and cherished by whites. He is the consummate racist! He loves all things brown, black and dark. He wishes to destroy our country and invent a new order of evil and destruction. Getting even with whitey is his driving force!
Because he is an insecure, small man who cannot abide that he may be upstaged, and by a Jew at that.
Thirty-six posts and we finally get to concise description of the heart of the matter.
“Type A” males always scare the bejeezus out of metrosexual, light in the loafers fairies.
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