For Obama, winning is not enough

“Sadly, none of this may matter to loyal Democrats in the House and Senate, who ‎have concluded that opposing a president of their party on an issue he considers ‎important requires a lot more courage than they ever signed up for.”

ISRAEL HAYOM
by Richard Baehr
August 16, 2015

….‎The campaign against the Iran deal opponents has revealed something else about the ‎president, now well into his seventh year in office. Obama seems to be unable at this ‎point to even accept that some people will challenge his direction and his ‎explanations. If they oppose him, it must be because they are people who are ‎always wrong about policy (hence, less intelligent and thoughtful than the all-‎knowing seer), traitors (more loyal to the government of Israel than America), ‎racist (reflexively opposed to everything Obama, in large part because of his race), ‎warmongers, or lacking knowledge of what they are talking about (they must not ‎have read the agreement or listened to the deal’s defenders in the administration). ‎There is a barely disguised contempt for anyone putting forth a contrary ‎argument. READ MORE

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