President Obama had strong words for the Republicans
who signed the letter Iran. The president said in the trailer for his
interview with Vice that Republicans embarrassed themselves by sending
the letter to a government that they consider to be their “mortal
enemy.”
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In the trailer for an interview with HBO’s Vice that
will air on March 16, President Obama said that Republicans embarrassed
themselves with their letter to Iran:
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 because you can’t trust him to follow through on an agreement. That’s close to unprecedented.
President Obama told Republicans that they
embarrassed themselves, while calling out the hypocrisy of the letter
itself, and suggested the act of trying to sabotage a negotiation with a
foreign government was unprecedented.
The president was correct. The letter was an attempt
to sabotage Obama while undercutting the president on the world stage.
Instead of asserting their power, each of the 47 Republican senators
embarrassed themselves and their country with their childlike letter to a
foreign government. The president referenced the fact that the Senate
Republicans who are pushing for war consider Iran to be America’s mortal
enemy.
Apparently, though, the Senate Republicans view
President Obama as a bigger enemy than an Iranian regime that funds and
sponsors terrorism. The letter is a complete humiliation for the entire
Republican Party. It was a reckless attempt to destroy a potential
international agreement for domestic partisan political gain.
The letter was not an embarrassment for President
Obama. In fact, the letter has helped Obama gain support from Democrats
for any potential agreement by making the choice clear. Either Democrats
support the diplomatic process, or they side with the Republicans who
are pushing for a war with Iran.
The Republican senators took the potential Iran
agreement from an executive versus legislative branch issue and turned
it into a question of war or no war.
The
few words that the president said in the Vice trailer were enough to
understand that the Senate Republicans who signed this letter made a
huge political mistake. The Republicans failed to embarrass this
president, but they did manage to humiliate themselves in front of the
entire world.
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