Depth of Obama-Schumer Rancor Coming to Light by Michael Friedson
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Contrary to early suggestions that the rift between President Obama and Senator Charles Schumer over the New York Senator’s decision to vote against the Iranian nuclear deal that allowed for the belief that some sort of mutual understanding of each other’s positions existed, a picture of rancor and vendetta is emerging. A growing number of voices in Washington are suggesting that first and foremost, Schumer not pick out furniture for the Senate Democratic leader’s office because the Obama team will doubtless do what it can to sabotage what until now was seen as Schumer’s job to lose.
Politico is reporting that it is believed that President Obama went back on an agreement not to release Schumer’s decision until the weekend by leaking it during the Republican debate; while White House spokesman Josh Earnest enlarged the differences between the two men from the issue-at-hand to a much larger rift that has fomented since the two served in the Senate together when he told reporters, “There’s no denying that this difference of opinion that emerged overnight is one that has existed between Senator Schumer and President Obama for over a decade.” Blow-back from liberal groups against Schumer has begun with word from MoveOn.org that the New Yorker can forget about donations it controls.
Meanwhile, President Obama continued his public lambasting of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in a Sunday CNN interview. Host Fareed Zakaria set up the question, asking the president whether it was “appropriate of a foreign head of government to inject himself into an American affair.” Obama replied that he does not remember a time in which a foreign leader interfered in American politics the way Netanyahu has done as he tries to kill the Iranian nuclear deal.
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