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by Daniel Greenfield
August 6, 2015

Obama spins lies while Iran spins centrifuges.

Obama loves to play dress up. Sometimes he likes to play FDR, but his favorite costume is JFK. By claiming to be FDR or JFK, he convinces Democrats that he is part of a historical continuity, instead of a horrible aberration, and that he is doing exactly what FDR or JFK would do if they were alive today. The costumes make Obama seem American instead of Un-American. Now Obama put on his JFK costume to play the leader who believes in a “practical” and “attainable peace.” His analogy of the USSR to Iran is both terrible and telling. Nuclear war was not averted because of arms control. The USSR, like Iran, cheated blatantly. Unlike Iran, its leaders weren’t crazy enough to want to see the world burn. The same can’t be said of the Supreme Leader of Iran who chants “Death to America” and means it. Treaties did not end the Cold War. The collapse of the USSR, under the pressure of its economic failures, did. READ MORE