Since he gave his speech on the Middle East, president Obama has falsely claimed that he was misquoted about his statement on Israel's borders. Then he said, again falsely, that his position was nothing new. Then the White House tried to spin the polite reception that the president got at AIPAC as proof that his remarks were no big deal. Now, it has come to Harry Reid, of all people, to put the lie to Obama's claims.
Reid spoke at AIPAC and said this:
“The place where negotiating will happen must be at the negotiating table – and nowhere else...Those negotiations … will not happen – and their terms will not be set – through speeches, or in the streets, or in the media.”
For those who do not speak Reid's language let me translate. Reid is saying that Obama's call for negotiations to be based upon Israel's 1967 borders was not a wise idea. Reid says that the parties to the negotiations should decide the outcome at such negotiations, not the president of the United States in a speech. Reid's speech also means that the spin put forward since the speech that Jews who contribute to and vote for the Democrats were no upset with Obama is phony. Everything Reid says and does is seen through the lens of politics. His statements to AIPAC are a clear indication of the level of panic hitting the Democrats over Obama's sticking his foot in his mouth on this issue.
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