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Rand Paul claims Iran letter was to strengthen Obama's hand ...
Rand Paul (R-Crazy Town) actually told Matt Lauer....with a straight face....that the letter sent was meant to STRENGTHEN Obama's hand in the negotiations. That it was supposed to be more of a "hey, you have some hardliners here that you need to agree to this".
Have I lost my mind? Why would you send a letter to IRAN, saying that "Hey, we might not keep this agreement once Obama is out of office", if you're trying to get them to agree to this negotiation? And if you're trying to "support" the President, why the hell wouldn't you send a letter TO OBAMA saying "Hey, we got your back"?
I swear he must be on something, because that's the lamest backpedal I have ever heard.....well, at least since the "I sign a lot of letters" line McCain gave us yesterday.
Here's the video.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/12/1370441/-Rand-Paul-claims-Iran-letter-was-to-strengthen-Obama-s-hand?detail=email
First, staffers try to claim it was a joke. Now Paul tries to claim it was to support Obama?! And I thought he at least had a smidgen of respect for Americans' intelligence.
Spazito
(50,549 posts)if their pedals were connected to a generator it could supply enough power to feed NY.
global1
(25,290 posts)MSM doesn't challenge them or call them on it. Lauer should have come down hard on Paul and he just let him get away with this.
gordianot
(15,249 posts)Rand Paul is the poster boy of Republican Libertarian ignorance, Matt Lauer continually promotes benign Media failure.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)liar, liar pants on fire.
Kingofalldems
(38,501 posts)randr
(12,418 posts)or just let Faux twist the facts around.
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt"
Mark Twain
Pathwalker
(6,600 posts)n/t
Delphinus
(11,845 posts)how f&%#king dumb do they think we are??!!
herding cats
(19,569 posts)These senators have no sense of politics beyond their own states, and since this makes a few of them vulnerable there now, not even that.
Paul just realized he made a boo boo on an international level and is trying to mitigate the damage. And, this bozo is in their clown car for 2016.
spanone
(135,917 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,034 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)We will soon have 47 different versions of bullshit like this. Then they will be in heavy rotation on Fox to see if any gain any traction.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)is his thinking cap.
Kber
(5,043 posts)Cha
(297,891 posts)they all voted against the Vets 7 times, too?