Despite his quest for invisibility, Ben Rhodes just made quite the splash for Democrat Senate candidates like Russ Feingold who are ignoring the will of the American people by supporting Barack Obama’s Iran deal.
Rhodes – “the aspiring novelist who became Obama’s foreign-policy guru,” can list the lies that the Obama administration peddled to sell the story known as the Iran deal as his greatest work of fiction.
As The New York Times writes of the narrative "manufactured" by the Obama administration to advance its nuclear deal with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism:
The way in which most Americans have heard the story of the Iran deal presented — that the Obama administration began seriously engaging with Iranian officials in 2013 in order to take advantage of a new political reality in Iran, which came about because of elections that brought moderates to power in that country — was largely manufactured for the purpose for selling the deal. Even where the particulars of that story are true, the implications that readers and viewers are encouraged to take away from those particulars are often misleading or false… it was also actively misleading…The idea that there was a new reality in Iran was politically useful to the Obama administration.
The Obama administration actively misled the American people for purposes of selling their wildly unpopular policy agenda.
Sound familiar?
FLASHBACK:
NBC News, 10/29/13: “Obama Administration Knew Millions Could Not Keep Their Health Insurance.”
- President Obama’s Policy Advisors Objected To The Breadth Of The “Keep Your Plan” Promise Because They Knew A Number Of Policies Would Be Cancelled. “But at times, there was second-guessing. At one point, aides discussed whether Mr. Obama might use more in-depth discussions, such as media interviews, to explain the nuances of the succinct line in his stump speeches, a former aide said. Officials worried, though, that delving into details such as the small number of people who might lose insurance could be confusing and would clutter the president’s message. … One former senior administration official said that as the law was being crafted by the White House and lawmakers, some White House policy advisers objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise. They were overruled by political aides, the former official said.” (Colleen McCain Nelson, Peter Nicholas and Carol E. Lee, “Aides Debated Obama Health-Care Coverage Promise,” The Wall Street Journal, 11/2/13)
The Times report also details President Obama’s reliance upon surrogates to sell his deal:
…the president largely let his surrogates do the talking and the selling of the Iran deal — and even now, rarely talks about it in public…
President Obama couldn’t have asked for a better surrogate than Senator Russ Feingold:
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FEINGOLD, 1/15/16: "[Obama’s] helped us avoid a war with Iran by having this nuclear deal that hopefully will work and prevent us from being in a situation with a country where we’ve had a very, very bad situation for like 40 or 50 years."
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FEINGOLD, 1/26/16: On Iran, Presisdent Obama Has "Kept His Eye On The Ball"
- Wisconsin Watchdog, 1/19/16: "Feingold all in on Obama nuclear deal with Iran"
Despite the political fears fueling his refusal to endorse her – or to merely be present in the same room with her, Hillary Clinton also couldn’t have asked for a better surrogate than Senator Feingold in selling the deal she proudly owns:
- PolitiFact, 10/23/15: "If it weren’t for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, there likely wouldn’t yet be an Iran nuclear deal, according to the former Secretary of State."
As poll after poll indicated – and as hostile action after hostile action verified, the American people knew better than to believe the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton/Russ Feingold Iran fairy tale.