President Obama Tears Apart CNN’s Lazy and Biased Press Conference Question [View all]

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President Obama Tears Apart CNN’s Lazy and Biased Press Conference Question

By: Jason Easleymore from Jason Easley
Thursday, April, 24th, 2014, 9:24 am


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During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Abe of Japan, CNN embarrassed themselves with a biased question that President Obama dismantled with facts.[....]

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, Jim, let me unpack that question because there’s a whole bunch of assumptions in there, some of which I don’t agree with. First of all, the treaty between the United States and Japan preceded my birth, so obviously, this isn’t a “red line” that I’m drawing; it is the standard interpretation over multiple administrations of the terms of the alliance, which is that territories under the administration of Japan are covered under the treaty. There’s no shift in position. There’s no “red line” that’s been drawn. We’re simply applying the treaty.[....]

With respect to the other issues that you raise, our position, Jim,
the United States’ position is that countries should abide by
international law[....] Now, the implication of the question I think is, is
that each and every time a country violates one of those norms the United States should go to war, or stand prepared to engage militarily, and if it doesn’t then somehow we’re not serious about those norms.

Well, that’s not the case. Right now, we have 87 percent of serious chemical weapons have already been removed from Syria. There’s about 13 percent left. That’s as a consequence of U.S. leadership. And the fact that we didn’t have to fire a missile to get that accomplished is not a failure to uphold those international norms, it’s a success. It’s not a complete success until we have the last 13 percent out.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/24/president-obama-takes-cnns-lazy-biased-press-conference-question.html