President Obama is not backing down from his comments earlier this week when he compared the Iranian hardliners who oppose the Iran deal to the Republican caucus who look to derail any agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.
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“In fact, it’s those hardliners who are most comfortable with the status quo”, Obama said. “Some might say that”.
“I’d be surprised if the president spent a lot of his evening devoted to watching the debate”, Earnest said at a White House briefing.
“I think what he did is made the point they are making the same argument, that it’s hard-liners in Iran suggesting they should kill the deal”, Earnest said. And I can’t handicap the outcome, but my members will delve into the details and make a decision based upon what they think is in the best long-term interest of our country. “He said these are folks who are chanting ‘Death to America.’ He added that little phrase in there”.
Few people have as big a stake as Obama in who succeeds him, but the White House has often been loath to acknowledge that the president is concerned about the political circus of horse-race politics. “Why does the president see this in such stark terms and why are those who oppose the deal either ignorant or untruthful?”
Proven wrong, Earnest wiggled by saying Obama was merely trying to say that Republicans and Iranian hardliners shared the same position – an objection to the nuke deal.
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Ten of the 17 Republican presidential candidates appeared yesterday at the Fox News’s first primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, where they spoke about issues like Iran, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), immigration and economy. “It just goes to show you how delusional, naive and uninformed our president is about the world”, Graham told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday. And let me tell you why.
