Obama played race card on Netanyahu over Mideast dangers 'I'm the African American son of a single

wnd ^ | 3/10/16 | Douglas Ernst

[Nachum]

President Obama used the race card during a tense debate over the future of the Middle East with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Obama recently agreed to an extensive interview with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg for its April issue. The piece, titled “The Obama Doctrine,” highlights the president’s growing disillusionment with long-time allies. Obama even disclosed how he linked obstacles with Netanyahu to condescension instead of an ideological divide.

“In one of Netanyahu’s meetings with the president, the Israeli prime minister launched into something of a lecture about the dangers of the brutal region in which he lives, and Obama felt that Netanyahu was behaving in a condescending fashion, and was also avoiding the subject at hand: peace negotiations,” the magazine reported. “Finally, the president interrupted the prime minister: ‘Bibi, you have to understand something,’ he said. ‘I’m the African-American son of a single mother, and I live here, in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.'”

[SJackson]

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What other card does he have to play? The Indonesia card, I suppose.

[onedoug]

Made in Kenya

[Eleutheria5]

It was ineptly played. He was elected POTUS in a country that has a history of violence and bigotry towards his particular ethnicity, but also with a history of contrition for that former history, and a desire to atone. He is comparing that with a Jewish state that has come into existence and thrived despite being situated in the midst of fanatical hatred and hostility, no contrition, no sense even that there’s anything wrong with obsessive hatred, and never-ending attempts on the lives of its citizens. Comparing apples and oranges, indeed. More like comparing pineapples and fragmentation grenades.

[GBA]

I despise Cruz because he is a liar and poseur, using conservative’s trust in himself as a fake Christian.

^^This^^

These days, every time I hear Ted Cruz's voice, I throw up some of the obama-crap we've been made to swallow and then have to taste it all over again.

And now with all of his "Cruz for POTUS" ads playing before the primaries here and the states next door, my obama-acid-cruz reflux is really bad.

It's too early to tell if Trump is a cure or a placebo, but so far he's given my 7-year upset stomach some holistic relief!