By Ted Belman
Susan Rice has been castigated for her remarks about Netanyahu’s “destructive behavior”. Here’s that WaPo has to say, Susan Rice: Netanyahu’s speech ‘destructive’
Greta Van Susteren had a great comeback.
Has President Obama’s Nation Security Adviser Susan Rice gone off the deep end? What kool aid is SHE drinking?
Rice, who as you know ridiculously went around to the 5 Sunday shows claiming Benghazi was caused by a video, just claimed to CBS Charlie Rose that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress next week is “destructive” to the relationship between the US and Israel. Really? PM Netanyahu is the destructive one to the relationship?
Ah…maybe she ought to look at her boss’ conduct if she wants to talk ‘destructive’ to the relationship.
Consider this..
1/ Remember when her boss, President Obama, got caught on a hot mike ‘trash talking’ PM Netanyahu with then French President Sarkozy? Does she not think THAT was destructive to the relationship? Insulting another world leader like that?
or how about this?
2/ When the Jewish deli got hit by terrorism in Paris in January, and PM Netanyahu and all those world leaders showed up in solidarity — where was President Obama? A no show! Does she think THAT was not destructive to the relationship? A no show for that terrorism attack on a Jewish deli?
or how about this?
3/ In October an Administration official called PM Netanyahu in a magazine article “chicken shit” and “a coward.” Does she not think THAT was destructive to the relationship?
And how about the fact that President Obama did not followup with an apology to PM Netanyahu on behalf of his Administration? Does she not think THAT was destructive to the relationship?
And by the way, was SHE the “Administration official” who called PM Netanyahu ‘coward’ and ‘chicken shit?’
and want more?
how about this?
4/ PM Netanyahu is desperately trying to protect his country from Iran getting a nuclear weapon….and is speaking to Americans via Congress..
– a/ Democrats are going to be a ‘no show’ to insult him and have already made that known….and
-b/ the VP, as President of the Senate says he is not showing up…and
-c/ President Obama won’t find 5 minutes to meet with the Prime Minister when he is here in DC.
Does she think THAT might be destructive to the relationship?
The is all because the White House is upset because Speaker Boehner did not tell them first before inviting PM Netanyahu. Do you know how insane that is to be upset about ‘manners’ and ‘protocol’ when the topic is NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
What kool aid is Susan Rice drinking?
Good stuff Greta!
ArnoldHarris Said:
Obama and his Marxo-Islamist minions have anticipated this. He has purged much of the top echelons of the military, much like his hero in Asia Minor, Adolf Hitler Erdogan. One assumes that he is doing this in part to prevent a possible coup in case he shuts down Congress and opposition media and seizes total power.
Just remember in the early days of his administration, the example of Honduras. A Marxist President, Mr. Zelaya, tried to cancel an election as he was not expected to win. The military ousted him, with the specific intent of RESTORING democracy and holding the election. The Obama administration adamantly refused to condemn Zelaya, but only the military. And in fact, the Honduran military DID stand down and allow the election — in spite of the fact that Obama backed the man who would have become the Hugo Chavez of Honduras.
It is now Thursday night, February 26 2015 in Wisconsin USA. Exactly five nights from now, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be standing before the joint houses of the United States Congress, giving his invited address to every Republican Party member of the congress, along with most of the Democratic Party members, various significant invited guests such as Elie Wiesel and many others who want to be there when he makes his historic appearance. And viewing him and listening to what he shall say will possibly be one of the largest aggregate audiences in recent memory.
Nothing that Susan Rice, Barack Hussein Obama, John Kerry, J Street, the present Iranian ayatollah, Nancy Pelosi, Hilary Clinton, Obama’s all but insignificant vice president, or anyone else in the world, shall stop his appearance before the Congress of the United States. The anyone else category includes the Netanyahu’s opposition leaders of the Labor + Livni temporary coalition.
I shall not be so bold as to predict that what the prime minister shall tell the US Congress will change what is now clearly seen as the un-American policies of the current president of the United States. His era shall still go down in history as the one occasion in which an American president deserted his one democratic ally state in the Middle East, for purposes of siding with and appeasing the nuclear weapon appetite of a crazed theocrat whose regime has targeted for destruction not only much of the Islamic Middle East that opposes his threats, but also the United States itself, and the Jewish State of Israel.
But even without bending the treachery of this strangest of all American leaders to date, Mr Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress, the American people, and the world, stands to make a serious impact on the Congress, whose leadership stands in solid opposition to Mr Obama. That opposition is very likely to harden in days and weeks to come. For starters, the United States Senate, whose advice and consent is required for all foreign treaties, would like not consent to any agreement Obama and Kerry negotiate with Iran. Which renders any such treaty null and void.
Mr Obama ought to be intelligent enough to know that he cannot long continue running the public affairs of the USA by edicts issued from the White House without the backing of the United States Congress. They will soon take a case to the United States Supreme Court, also dominated by conservative justices, that the president is violating the very tenets of the United States Constitution.
If and when that happens, Mr Obama will find himself unable to preside over this country. And under such circumstances, the armed forces could in fact come to common understanding that the president is no longer able to function and carry out his duties to defend the United States from external enemies.
If and when matters get that far, the situation could grow ugly, but especially so for a national leader who can no longer count on the loyalty of the country’s armed forces. Those officers are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States, just as Mr Obama has done. All this has happened before, throughout history. And, as we all know, there are certain limits to any certitudes, including American exceptionalism. Because ordinary people and numerous influential all across this country are beginning to seriously question the loyalty of this particular president to the fundaments of the culture and the laws of the United States, purportedly the land of his birth, and even greater questions about his Moslem connections through birth and early schooling in a foreign country.
In any case, Mr Obama and his advisers have locked themselves fecklessly into a situation in which — if neither the Speaker of the House of Representatives nor the Prime Minister of Israel could be persuaded or threatened to back down — than the White House’s present occupant would be seen as the loser of a spectacular confrontation, and Mr Netanyahu would be seen — and widely regarded in Beijing, Moscow, Cairo, Athens, Riyadh, and Jerusalem — as the man who called the bluff of this particular US President.
Some of you would argue with me that the very act that shall take place next Tuesday evening — HaShem willing — will have no effect on the Knesset election two weeks later. Without making specific predictions, because I am not a political pollster, I nevertheless am certain there shall be a significant impact, and one that supports Mr Netanyahu.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI