Lindsey Graham: Obama's Foreign, Domestic Policies Disappointing
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President Barack Obama's foreign and domestic policies are failures
despite his positive words in Tuesday's State of the Union address,
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday on
"The Cats Roundtable" on AM 970 in New York.
"The war he described on the foreign policy front doesn't exist," Graham
said, noting that al-Qaida has not been decimated and, "We did not roll
back ISIL (the Islamic State) in Syria."
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Graham just met with members of the Free Syrian Army a week ago, and was
told that the Islamic State is "stronger than ever, selling oil and
wheat to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, Graham said.Graham said Obama's failure to call the war on terror a religious war is "a huge mistake," he said.
"The [American] friends in the region told me to my face it’s better to
be an American enemy than it is to be her friend, because you [America]
respect your enemies," he said.
Both Arabs and Israelis told him that if the United States makes the
nuclear deal with Iran that the White House is working on, there will be
a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
Israel already has a nuclear weapon, but none of its Arab neighbors felt
threatened or sought their own weapon, Graham told host John
Catsimatidis. A nuclear Iran does make them feel they'll need their own
nuclear weapons, he said.
The current low oil prices are aimed at hurting Iran, Graham said, to
force them to negotiate a deal the Saudis like better, he said.
"The Saudi Arabians told us in no uncertain terms that they will not sit
on the sidelines and watch Iran get a nuclear capability without
matching it — and that they are very disappointed in American
leadership," he said. The Saudis have volunteered their army to go into
Syria to fight the Islamic State and Assad, but they want the United
States to go with them, he added.
Turning to House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on the Iran deal, Graham
said he "couldn’t think of a better person" to explain the situation.
The invitation reportedly angered the White House because Boehner did not advise President Barack Obama ahead of time.
Graham said Obama's State of the Union was "a liberal’s dream and an
average American’s nightmare," because of his big plans to fund
community college education and offer tax cuts while raising taxes on
upper incomes, including the inheritance tax.
Graham called Obama's domestic plans "unsustainable" and proves he
didn't pay attention to the midterm elections, which gave both chambers
of Congress Republican majorities.
Obama says he wants to work with Republicans, but threatened multiple
vetoes on GOP initiatives, he said. Graham told Catsimatidis that it is
himself who has shown the ability to reach across party lines to get
things done.
He noted that he faced six Republicans in the 2014 primary because he
worked with Democrats on immigration. He also said he voted for Obama's
liberal Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan "because I
thought they were qualified Supreme Court nominees."
Graham has said he is considering a run for president in 2016, and will make that decision soon.
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