Saturday, October 23, 2010

Presidential temperament

Edward Klein, a former chief editor for the NYTimes Magazine, a man of high reliability relates the message that Presient Obama send to Bibi just after the Biden visit to the West Bank:..”during a 43-minute harangue, (Secretary of State) Clinton delivered a set of ultimatums to Netanyahu. Prefacing each remark with the phrase “I have been instructed to tell you,” she demanded that Israel release a substantial number of Palestinian prisoners as a token of goodwill; lift its siege of Gaza; suspend all settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem; and agree to place the question of the status of Jerusalem up front at the peace-talks agenda.

“If you refuse these demands,” Clinton told Netanyahu, according to informed sources, “the United States government will conclude that we no longer share the same interests.”

This appears to be a true description of President Obama at work.

In a blog by Bookwormroom, she puts together eight instances where Obama behaved in the same way domestically, four of them are on video, two of the videos show Obama deliberately giving McCain and Hillary Clinton ‘the finger’.

It is hard to think of the White House as a viper pit, but history may reveal it as such.

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