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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (58815)	6/1/2012 10:15:05 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

log Biden Blames Israel First 3:05 PM, Jun 1, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts Elliott Abrams is rightly and eloquently outraged about this morning's New York Times article, which features Obama administration officials discussing sensitive and classified national security matters, for the sake of making the president look tough. The leakers—none of whom "would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it continue to this day"—did no favor to our national security, or to efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program. But it's interesting that one of them also, in passing, did no favor to Vice President Joe Biden. There's an account of a key meeting, recounted in some detail by a presumably very senior administration official who was there, at which a CIA briefer explained that it was thought that a modification in the Stuxnet code that some viewed as unfortunate had been done by the Israelis. Sanger writes that in fact "It is unclear who introduced the programming error." But at the meeting, Biden, we are told, "fumed. 'It's got to be the Israelis,' he said. 'They went too far.'" Why might an administration official have gone out of his way to recount Biden's eagerness to blame Israel? It's one of Biden's few appearances in the whole article, and it's presented in a context where someone also went out of his way to explain to Sanger that it's unclear who really was responsible. So why the subtle attempt to make Biden look like an anti-Israel hothead—especially when there's a full-court effort underway to make Obama look pro-Israel?

To: jlallen who wrote (58815)	6/3/2012 7:27:23 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Romney \| Obama \| Campaign \| Hutchinson Sen. Hutchinson: Romney Is Trying to Show a 'Better Way' Sunday, 03 Jun 2012 01:46 PM By Amy Woods Share: More . . . A A \| Email Us \| Print \| Forward Article 0 inShare Republican Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson called President Barack Obama a divisive leader who is unwilling to work with Congress to fix Social Security or create jobs. “He should be joining with Congress right now . . . to say we can fix Social Security,” Hutchinson declared Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “We just see divisiveness from the president, and I think that’s what, honestly, Mitt Romney is trying to show, that there’s a better way.” She lauded the former Massachusetts governor’s record while saying voters should be scrutinizing Obama’s. “It is laughable that the Democrats would say we shouldn’t be looking at Obama’s record,” she explained. “Are you kidding? We see the president talking about new taxes on the people who could create jobs. We see him stifling the jobs that could be created by not approving the Keystone pipeline, even though The Washington Post said he should do it. “I think, Mr. Obama, Gov. Romney needs to show that there is a better way, that we can get the Keystone pipeline going and create jobs immediately without one taxpayer dollar being spent,” she added. Read more on Newsmax.com: Sen. Hutchinson: Romney Is Trying to Show a 'Better Way' Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!