President Obama said he is embarrased for the 47 Republican Senators and others who sent a letter to Iran, indicating to that Nation that whatever deal the Administration and other powers arrive at would presumably be an executive deal subject to change by the next President.
The president made the comments in a trailer for a Vice News interview scheduled to run in full on Monday, according to (Politico).
“I’m embarrassed for them. For them to address a letter to the Ayatollah who they claim is our mortal enemy, and their basic argument to them is ‘don’t deal with our president ‘cause you can’t trust him to follow through on agreement,” Obama said in a trailer for a Vice News interview scheduled to run in full on Monday. “That’s close to unprecedented,”
Germany’s foreign minister weighed in Thursday, saying that to call the letter unhelpful would be “an understatement.”
What’s even more nauseating is that they cannot come up with a plausible explanation for their actions that would sway anyone to conclude that their actions are anything but racial.
John McCain the elder statement of being perpetually wrong and one of the signatory of the letter said.
“It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm, I think we probably should have had more discussion about it, given the blow-back that there is.”
In other words he is only concerned about the blowback , and not (1)that he did not take time to consider the consequences to his and his colleagues actions, and (2) That his actions would be unprecedented and wrong but could be considered to be borderline treasonous as the New York Daily News and people all across the Globe believe.
This is the same John McCain who burst into bomb, bomb bomb Iran song when he ran against Obama in 08 and the question of Iran came up.
Despite the hysteria of McCain and the more rabid warmongers on the right surrounding Iran’s supposed march toward a nuclear bomb, there is no evidence Iran has a bomb or is actively seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
These were the same people who lied to the world using maps and supposed satellite imagery to convince many goats[sic] that Iraq possessed dangerous weapons which were capable of destroying their Ally Israel and destroying the world.
Israel is still where it was , the world is still here, and the Goats who fell for that malarkey now know that it was all a lie.
AS FOR CLAIMS OF TREASON
The Logan Act a law dating to 1799 prohibiting unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments during a dispute with the United States. The law was a response to the actions of George Logan, a physician and zealous Republican from Pennsylvania, who undertook a lone voyage to Paris in an effort to negotiate an end to the Quasi-War with France. Logan had no official standing or stature, and his private diplomacy stoked Federalist fears of a widespread plot among Republicans (as members of the Jeffersonian party, also known as the Democratic-Republican party, called themselves) to subvert the elected government in Philadelphia. Ironically, Logan was never prosecuted under his namesake federal law — quite the contrary: He was elected to the Senate in 1800.
These Senators had no Authority to negotiate with Iran, yet they will not be prosecuted for their actions. It is important to note that this is irony full circle.
Logan was not prosecuted , neither will these 47 Republicans.
Which causes me to wonder why is Edward Snowden in hiding when these 47 are not?
Despite my disgust at these Republicans , I still have a problem with way the President sees this.
Quote: For them to address a letter to the Ayatollah who they claim is our mortal enemy, and their basic argument to them is ‘don’t deal with our president ‘cause you can’t trust him to follow through on agreement,”
Mister President I disagree with you, at least on the way you perceive this
They are not saying that you cannot be trusted to deliver on whatever deal you make strike with the Iranians. They are telling the Iranians that you basically have no authority to deliver on any deal they cannot wipe away.
Yes it is unprecedented.
Some say it is Treasonous.
No one will be prosecuted, if a poor person had done anything remotely similar to what these Senators did all of these hypocrites, not just the 47 Senators who signed the letter, but those potentially running for the Republican nomination would be on television calling for that person’s head as they did Snowden.
If Democrats had done that to a sitting Republican president, republicans would hammer them for it for decades. There would be hearings and more hearings.
They are a despicable set of hypocrites who are not averse to spending tens of millions of tax payers dollars to unearth nothing as they did with Special Prosecutor Kenneth Star during the Clinton years.
Or the nonsensical pursuit of nothing as a result of the unfortunate Benghazi incident.
What continues to be clear, is the level of idiocy and racism inherent in voters who continue to elect the likes of Cotton, Cruz, Rubio, Pense, Lee, etal.
It does seem that when one examines the views of those elected to office in the Republican party, it is clear that this country has not made much stride, contrary to what the President believes.