In my opinion the President is not and cannot be an effective negotiator because he is a lone wolf, he doesn’t treat people as equals or peers but rather considers them superior or inferior to him and treats them accordingly.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the citizens who put him in office, the President views himself as superior exposing us to the endless moralizing and lecturing, lying and selling and if we dare continue to object to anything he asserts he indulges in raging insults and petty shunning that have made this president so obviously un-presidential.
For me, overlooking the President’s personality and faithfully hoping that his skills were different when it came to Iran, especially since we don’t know what deal he’s made or plans to make and we don’t know whether he is truthfully conveying the same, is perilous for the American people.
We cannot afford to have such short memories. Consider Obamacare. While some relentlessly defend the law, even its boosters have become near-ridiculous in their attempts to continue to justify the law based on what we were originally promised or what we thought we were getting. Instead, we’ve had five years of manipulating factoids, non-facts presented as facts trying to prove that the law is “working” in some amorphous way. And now we’re supposed to buy into the same with Iran.
Our biggest error will be to assume that the President was different in his "Iran" negotiations from the way we've seen him behave to date. Think about Obamacare and the public insurance alternative, the first thing to go as the President Lone Wolf pursued his personal goal of getting something passed at all costs. Think about Obamacare and its failure to deliver on any of its original promises as we begin hearing the relentless sales job regarding Iran.
At the very least there should be a document, a writing that the American people should demand to read for themselves before agreeing to the President’s verbal “description” of what the deal with Iran is or isn’t. This is the least we should demand after the colossal misrepresentations of Obamacare.
Yet, this morning we’re reliving the sales pitch, listening to the President summarize the “good news” as if we hadn’t been deceived by him before.
There is a single way that the President behaves, a jovial salesman pretending he’s got our backs until anyone dares to question and then he becomes the petulant, petty teenager who declares that he will do as he wants. This isn’t presidential, it’s adolescent and the President’s lack of wisdom, understanding and vision imperils our country.
What is the deal with Iran? Not "the deal" according to the President whose reliability is not stellar but according to a real-world agreement evidenced by something that can be reviewed that shows exactly what's been or being agreed to with Iran. That’s the starting point not coverage of the President's prepared sales pitches to the American people.
