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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 06:17 PM Mar 2015

Obama on GOP Iran Letter Signatories: "I'm Embarrassed For Them."

The president told reporters at the White House on Monday that the lawmakers seemed to be “wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran.” In a recorded interview with the website Vice, an excerpt of which was released Friday, Obama said, “I’m embarrassed for them.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-13/republicans-feeling-heat-over-iran-letter-express-regrets

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Republicans Feeling Heat Over Iran Letter Express Regrets
Mar 13, 2015 12:23 PM EDT

(Bloomberg) -- At least a few of the Republican senators feeling the backlash from signing an open letter to Iran’s leaders are expressing some second thoughts.

Amid mounting criticism from allies, home-state editorial boards and colleagues who opted not to sign the missive, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson became the latest Republican to suggest he might do things differently if given another chance.

While Johnson said he stood by the content of the letter, which warned Iran that any deal with President Barack Obama might not outlast his term in office, he said it probably shouldn’t have been directed to leaders of the Islamic Republic.

‘I suppose the only regret is who it’s addressed to,’’ Johnson said at a Bloomberg breakfast in Washington. The Wisconsin Republican said it may have been a “tactical error” and that the letter could have been addressed to Obama’s administration or the American people.

Arizona Senator John McCain, a prominent Republican voice on foreign affairs and national security, has said haste and an impending snowstorm in Washington short-circuited more measured consideration of the letter.

“It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm,” McCain told Politico in an interview. “I think we probably should have had more discussion about it, given the blowback that there is.”

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Obama on GOP Iran Letter Signatories: "I'm Embarrassed For Them." (Original Post) Hissyspit Mar 2015 OP
That's that 4th or 5th time I've seen that line BeyondGeography Mar 2015 #1
Now McCain is blaming a snowstorm? louis-t Mar 2015 #2
Oh, that is rich! elias49 Mar 2015 #3
"not most effective" napkinz Mar 2015 #6
lol.. I was going to say something about mccain says he "signs lots of letters".. but here it is! Cha Mar 2015 #8
He probably left the toilet running too. nt Xipe Totec Mar 2015 #7
The Weather Made Me Do IT LOLOL!!!! icymist Mar 2015 #16
Did McCain seriously just blame it on a snowstorm? Bjorn Against Mar 2015 #4
he's got more class barbtries Mar 2015 #5
More empathy realFedUp Mar 2015 #9
So for McCain, "blowback"... bvar22 Mar 2015 #10
Of course BrotherIvan Mar 2015 #11
At least our president knows the definition of treason and traitor. former9thward Mar 2015 #12
Obama's the constitutional scholar and I'm not, so - LiberalElite Mar 2015 #15
No one has committed treason or sedition under U.S. law. former9thward Mar 2015 #18
47 traitors on the wall, 47 traitors. If one falls down... BeanMusical Mar 2015 #13
I'm just so flabbergasted - I'll let the smilies speak for me - LiberalElite Mar 2015 #14
Maybe they should have... 3catwoman3 Mar 2015 #17
because Obama cannot say THEY'RE A BUNCH OF FUCKWITS Skittles Mar 2015 #19
Traitors don't even deserve his attention. Nothing but a vipers den. Rex Mar 2015 #20
Passive-aggressiveness is often more effective than a right hook to the jaw! randome Mar 2015 #21

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
1. That's that 4th or 5th time I've seen that line
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 06:27 PM
Mar 2015

and I like it more each time.

The Republicans are convinced Obama (like all liberals) is a hapless moron. Sometimes, it doesn't hurt to get personal in response.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
8. lol.. I was going to say something about mccain says he "signs lots of letters".. but here it is!
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 07:28 PM
Mar 2015
admitting he doesn't know or care what he's doing.

icymist

(15,888 posts)
16. The Weather Made Me Do IT LOLOL!!!!
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:10 PM
Mar 2015

In other news McCain yelled out, "Where did I put my car keys?" and then started to grumble, "You kids! Get off my lawn!"

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
4. Did McCain seriously just blame it on a snowstorm?
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 06:30 PM
Mar 2015

I have never heard of preparing for a snowstorm by trying to derail peace talks with a foreign power, but I guess Republicans may have thought Iran might donate some snow plows or something.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
5. he's got more class
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 06:36 PM
Mar 2015

in his fingernail than they could ever aspire to.
i still think they should be prosecuted.

former9thward

(32,025 posts)
12. At least our president knows the definition of treason and traitor.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 07:53 PM
Mar 2015

Because he knows the Constitution. Unlike so many others...

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
15. Obama's the constitutional scholar and I'm not, so -
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:07 PM
Mar 2015

Is it that the traitor commits treason? Serious question. I don't want them to get away with this but they probably will.

former9thward

(32,025 posts)
18. No one has committed treason or sedition under U.S. law.
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 01:24 AM
Mar 2015

1) The U.S. Constitution protects members of Congress from anything they say or write. ( Art. I, section 6). 2) Speaker Pelosi did the very same thing in 2007 when she went to Syria ot meet with Assad over White House protests. 3) Th U.S. Constitution gives joint responsibility to the Executive branch and Congress for U.S.foreign policy. 4) Posters on this very board want Congress to reject Obama's attempt to negotiate a treaty on trade. Yet that is not being a traitor. Hypocrisy.

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
17. Maybe they should have...
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:16 PM
Mar 2015

...stayed IN town and done their damn jobs.

I am sooooooooooo glad this is backfiring.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
20. Traitors don't even deserve his attention. Nothing but a vipers den.
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 05:41 AM
Mar 2015

I feel so sorry for Obama. He has to deal with men he knows will stab him in the back the moment he turns away from them. I don't know how he does it.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
21. Passive-aggressiveness is often more effective than a right hook to the jaw!
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 06:47 AM
Mar 2015

Forget the Jedi mind-trick, Obama is the master of another style.
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