Meet The Candidates: 2012 GOP Thread

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Originally Posted by 12thMan

You seriously read all of that into a statement between two world leaders? He was stating the obvious, if reelected he'll have more leverage to negotiate an arms deal. That's good diplomacy if you ask me. What's dishonest or deceiving about that? He got caught telling the truth. Secondly, and more importantly, the President can't do a damn thing regarding arms negotiations without Senate approval.

But forget what I'm saying, do you honestly think John Boehner and Mitch McConnell would let this shit slide if the President was flipping the bird to voters? Hell to the no. This would be major news and they'd be pounding this story every damn day. I'm willing to bet within 48 hrs of landing in Washington Obama got John Boehner and Mitch McConnell on the horn and said, look, we were discussing "XYZ" and I'm going to need you guys to stand down for a few more months until after the election. You good with that, John? Case closed.

You totally changed what he said and he said nothing about leverage.
He said

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility".

Another words he said I don't have to worry about voters after this election so I'm free to do what I want. The news pretty much looked right over this and if John Boehner or a ranking rep. had said this it would have been major news for weeks.