Wonderful: State Dep’t already backing off Obama’s two-week deadline for Iranian nuclear inspections
posted at 6:02 pm on October 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
I should have used a screencap of Obama for this but I think I’ve exhausted Hot Air’s arsenal on Olympics posts. Anyway, in case you thought that the Copenhagen debacle is today’s big international embarrassment, think again. The One laid down the two-week deadline yesterday at around 3 p.m. ET; this dispatch from The Hill was posted at 2:23 this afternoon. The big “ultimatum” didn’t last 24 hours.
A State Department spokesperson on Friday signaled the president’s mandate that Iran has two weeks to permit inspections of its recently unveiled uranium refinement plant was not “written in stone.”
“I don’t think that there’s a hard-and-fast deadline,” State Department Spokesperson Ian C. Kelley said during Friday’s press briefing, after a reporter asked what the consequences of Iran’s inaction might be.
“I think that we’ve made it quite clear this was a matter of some urgency; that we expected [Iran] to take urgent and concrete steps to open up this facility, and not only just open it up but also make sure that we were able to — or that the IAEA would be able to — talk to some of the engineers there and see documents and plans,” Kelly added.
No worries: Kelly promises that we’ll be coordinating with IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei, who, in case you missed last night’s Ron Paul post, you may recall is a notoriously corrupt Iranian stooge. How grim do things look now? So grim that even RINO HQ, a.k.a. the Daily Beast, is publishing pieces today warning that Obama’s getting hustled by both Iran and Russia. Exit question: How far will our ironclad, line-in-the-sand two-week deadline end up being extended? Over/under is the end of the year.
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It’s like everything he touches turns to sh!t.
Lance Murdock on October 2, 2009 at 6:05 PM
The thing about a “line-in-the-sand” is that it easy to use your foot to erase one line and draw a new one.
WashJeff on October 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Two days after they nuke Israel is my guess.
Off topic:
Even in this bad economy I had a job interview today and the results were: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k4qUd0GzPAIsM87qET
(Old school hotair commmenters will appreciate that)
Meric1837 on October 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM
…whereupon, it will be immediately re-extended when Iran refuses to budge.
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Wow! The expiration dates on his statements get ever shorter.
Guardian on October 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Obama is the Anti-Midas.
redshirt on October 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM
More like the sh*t midas.
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Sorry to hijack your shtick AP.
Meric1837 on October 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM
I was sorta thinking an Iranian detonation today would be icing on the cake for US interests, but this self inflicted stupidity works as well.
rob verdi on October 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM
What? Russia and Iran tag-teaming to hustle the One? I am shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
johnnybgood on October 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM
If this administration wasn’t so dangerous it would be knee slapping hilarious.
rplat on October 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Like I said, it’s The Precedent or the US, and the choice is going to have to be made very soon. We cannot survive another year of the political suicide bomber.
Maybe you anti-birthers ought to start rethinking your position, as having him thrown out for being Constitutionally ineligible (which he is) is one of the only chances this nation has of remaining intact and functional as a nation.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM
And people in Washington scratch their heads and wonder why Iran doesn’t take us seriously?
pilamaye on October 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Not only did the White House announce prior to the Thursday meeting that they would give up the primary reason for having the talks to begin with, now they give up the other reason for having the talks without a fight.
This isn’t the party of appeasement, this is the party of surrender.
Skandia Recluse on October 2, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Hilary dealing with foreign dictators is like Obama dealing with the IOC and the congress dealing with health care.
MaiDee on October 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM
And it keeps getting worse…
WisCon on October 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM
I’m actually feeling a little sorry for the big guy today.
What an embarrassment.
BadgerHawk on October 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Even if it was true, it would never happen.
Let’s just make sure we take back the house and senate in 2010.
redshirt on October 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Isn’t this waving of the white flag racist? Just sayin’.
jimmy2shoes on October 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Don’t feel sorry for him. He loves this. Anything that hurts the US falls right in line with his goals, whether he is personally embarrassed or not. He also gets a kick out of making the White House the butt of jokes.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM
You know….linking Barry with the term “line in the sand” just brings up the image that was on the back of all the comic books….a skinny punk getting sand kicked in his face by the bullies…..so tragically appropriete. *sigh*
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Is that Hillary photo for real?
DrStock on October 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Wow. Just wow.
RedNewEnglander on October 2, 2009 at 6:16 PM
At least he’s strong against Honduras, we don’t want them to bring down the world..
the_nile on October 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Wait and see. You might be very surprised.
Chances are that we don’t have that long.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM
I don’t get really depressed at news like this. I get really depressed when I see that this A-hole’s approval still hovers around 50%.
Mark1971 on October 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM
I’ll take the Over
Daemonocracy on October 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM
But, but, but, Andrea Mitchell said that Obama did so well at this meeting.
I just hope the Israelis have an attack plan that will completely destroy Iran’s nuke program, and are preparing to execute it soon.
It may be their only chance to avoid a national disaster.
Dave R. on October 2, 2009 at 6:18 PM
That would be the absolutely worse thing that could happen…then we’d get Joey “God Love ‘im” Biden with the exact same policies…plus, there would be a huge backlash among independents…the Dems would win that all the way around.
Obama his going to have to be repudiated at the voting booth…and he will.
We’ll survive somehow…but it will take years and maybe even some wars to fix this mess when Obama is gone.
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Sir Talksalot is nothing more than an emperor with no clothes. The Commander in Breifs if you will.
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:18 PM
And replacing him with Biden?? Oh Christ. The smartest, (no, the ONLY smart thing Barry has done, was to make Dopey Joe his V.P.. No one wants to see Joe replace anyone.
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Don’t recognize that woman in the picture. Who is she?
/sarc
revolutionismyname on October 2, 2009 at 6:19 PM
I am sure the white house is hard at work coming up with some angle to blame bush. It’s all they know…
SHARPTOOTH on October 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM
+1000
nyx on October 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM
It would seem you are a very smart poster…..
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM
….So, the US negotiators really meant “Two Weeks-Two Weeks”?
dmh0667 on October 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM
You really think that even if it were proven today that congress would act to remove him before the 2010 elections? A democrat congress would sit on it and denounce it.
Those wheels just turn too slowly.
redshirt on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I think they would do better if they DID send Whoopi…/s
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I don’t get really depressed at news like this. I get really depressed when I see that this A-hole’s approval still hovers around 50%.
Mark1971 on October 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM
I too, find this impossible to fathom, someone has to be skewing the #’s. Hell I’m in Chicago, even here the scales are falling from the eyes.
Can anyone name one thing this guy has done right yet?
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Way over. It’ll get punted to the next president
rbj on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
On the serious side, this guy is one big never ending joke. Now the world and particularly our enemies know it all to well. We are in deep water with no life vest. It is really sad what this arrogant naive guy has done in 8 months.
rjoco1 on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Actualy, I’d take Joe in a Heartbeat… because theres NO way he’d keep Jarret, or Emanuel, or all the other far left whackos who are really driving the agenda as Barry goes around making speeches…
I’d much rather have incompetents in those positions, than fairly competent Socialists and Leftists….
Romeo13 on October 2, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Biden would not be nearly as dangerous. He’s just a doofus with a low IQ, not a hate of America.
AUINSC, I wish I shared your optimism, but my view of the future is much more bleak. There are other solutions aside from the eligibility issue … but they don’t leave the US intact.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Johan Klaus on October 2, 2009 at 6:24 PM
“backing off” is what the Obamoids do best
….along with stealing votes, stealing elections, intimidating voters, taking bribes, and corrupting every aspect of government.
Obama is part Chicken Little and part Foghorn Leghorn: an actual 3-D cartoon president, prancing around with TOTUS like Mick Jagger on steroids, accomplishing nothing while trying to tear the nation apart so that his bored-rich-radical friends can lap up the remnants
He wants to Chicago-ize all of us.
Janos Hunyadi on October 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
I like that dog he took six months to choose.
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
He has great moobs. /sarc
nyx on October 2, 2009 at 6:25 PM
You and I certainly seem to be on the same wave length.
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I blame the IOC.
Bishop on October 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM
If he were found ineligible, it wouldn’t go to Congress for impeachment. He would never have been able to take the office, so there is no “removal”. This sort of issue is exactly why he took the oath twice – as small a technicality as that seemed to people.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM
….So, the US negotiators really meant “Two Weeks-Two Weeks”?
dmh0667 on October 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM
During the election there was a phrase going around for this phenomena, W.O.R.M.
What Obama Really Meant.
Fitting I think, as it daily becomes apparent that, that is all he really is. A spineless worm!
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM
This mission demands a new line of battle around the West itself, one supported by a multilevel strategy in which the purpose of military action is not to nation-build in the Islamic world, but to nation-save in the Western one. Secure the borders, for starters, something “war president” George W. Bush should have done but never did. Eliminate the nuclear capabilities of jihadist nations such as Iran another thing George W. Bush should have done but never did — Pakistan’s, too. Destroy jihadist actors, camps and havens wherever and whenever needed (the strategy in place and never executed by Bill Clinton in the run-up to 9/11). But not by basing, supplying and supporting a military colossus in Islamic, landlocked Central Asia. It is time, as Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (USA ret.) first told me last April, to “let Afghanistan go.” It is not in our interests to civilize it.
MB4 on October 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM
For you birthers, apparently Hawaiian officials have admitted Obama’s vital records have been amended. It doesn’t prove anything, but it’s interesting.
flyfisher on October 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I’m thinking along the lines of straightening deckchairs on the Titanic…..Joe’s an idiot, but Barry is evil. Maybe Putin could step in and take over for the next few years.
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM
The ‘shelter puppy’ he got from the Dead Swimmer?
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM
He has done an excellent job of promoting Sarah Palin.
jimmy2shoes on October 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM
He helped blow the Chicago Olympics for us. I call that something right and my wallet and tax bill thanks him.
Knucklehead on October 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Icebergs to the left and Icebergs to the right,
and Obama’s political hull is getting smacked
daily,in this case,with Iran and the IOC,hes
taken two icebergs today,and the night is still
young!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Well, it’s not optimism exactly…more hope than anything else. The rate at which Obama is turning into his own worst enemy is really staggering. He’s truly one dim bulb and the rate he’s cratering is unprecedented. He’s really blowing his credibility to such an extent that he’s about to become, effectively, a lame-duck within his first year in office…unable to move any of his agenda. That’s the best we can hope for until he’s gone.
But his is doing huge damage in foreign policy, no doubt about it.
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Fail.
jukin on October 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Ride ‘em Rawhide!
d1carter on October 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
He speaks too quickly on issues.
AnninCA on October 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
He wants to be hustled by Iran and Russia. As long as he can hustle America, he’ll be happy.
MB4 on October 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
He got both Biden & Hillary out of the Senate.
PappaMac on October 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Could in be that Hilary is hoping The Precedent will fail?
chickasaw42 on October 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Yeah, that one. And if ever a dog was crying out with meaningful eyes, it’s this one.
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Ummm,
1. The Palestinian Israeli peace process
2. The Olympics in Chicago
3. Cash for Clunkers
4. Stimulus package
5. Bailing out banks/car makers/whomever
6. Cap and Trade
7. Obamacare
Oh, wait, these all failed. Just give me a minute….
Well, his kids are super adorable.
mjk on October 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM
A shaky line drawn with the Obama Etch A Sketch.
Fletch54 on October 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Whatever the Iranians offer will be accepted. The Iranians will gratefully accept a schedule of semiannual meetings, limiting the strain of shouting “Go to hell, Great Satan”, in return for our promise not to bother them about disarmament in between sessions.
This will be announced as a framework.
Obama will have won in the race that will matter to him and his liberal supporters–all his fumbles will have obtained the framework.–Bush didn’t get a framework, did he??? SEE?!!!!
Chris_Balsz on October 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM
At least he has the obama girls. :)
I miss Barney and his vicious bite. ;)
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM
I signed up here some months ago but have never commented. I was a registered Democrat for 35 years but recently joined the Republican Party. I enjoy this site very much, until I see this kind of thing. I do not understand why you feel you must use photographs like that of Hillary Clinton to make a point. It really does not add to the serious conversation that should be taking place. In fact, it distracts from the point you are trying to make. Maybe you do not care to bring new people into the fold. Perhaps you don’t give a damn what I think. However, you might want to consider that you could be more persuasive with those of us that look at your side with as much cynicism as we do the other side if you would tone it down a little. There are a lot of people like me who feel disenfranchised. The Hillary hatred may play well in the echo chamber, but if you want to expand your base and bring people to your way of thinking, give it up. It is insulting.
abycat on October 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Galvanized the conservative movement?
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Joe Biden is BO’s job security, but I don’t know if we can survive the next three years.
d1carter on October 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Wouldn’t blame them if they’re embarrassed of him too….”Dad! You said we were getting the Olympics!!”
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Well, I’m not a lawyer, but I heard Hugh Hewitt talking about it some time ago, and he said it would take an act of Congress.
I’m not sure what you describe. What mechanism would remove him from office? Or do you just expect him to leave peacefully?
redshirt on October 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Iran got everything they wanted at the talks and we got nothing.
I see a familiar pattern developing with the Child in chief’s actions.
jukin on October 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM
That would be the absolutely worse thing that could happen…then we’d get Joey “God Love ‘im” Biden with the exact same policies…plus, there would be a huge backlash among independents…the Dems would win that all the way around.
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:18 PM
And stretch as VP?
txag92 on October 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Perpetual campaign bisects perpetual line-in-the-sand.
ICBM on October 2, 2009 at 6:36 PM
And I don’t think that’s escaped Hillary’s notice. I call BS on Michelle 86ing Hillary, I think Barry knew that no one was going to look forward to a Biden presidency.
anniekc on October 2, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Maybe Lula of Brazil could do a better job negotiating with the Iranians.
Buy Danish on October 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Can anyone name one thing this guy has done right yet?
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Archimedes: Well,he did have a tire pressure gauge,and
it was for real tires,so maybe just that!!
oh…oh…I know,he brought Mom Jeans back
into the fashion spotlight!
I think thats it!!hehe:)
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Plugs is a first-rate doofus and would make a horrible President. But in the end he’s just another garden variety liberal Democrat, with little to set himself apart. The man did exactly nothing in the Senate. In contrast, Obongo is a Marxist radical and his friends are as well. There is something sinister about Obongo and he has his gift. Joe just wants his ice cream.
flyfisher on October 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Gosh–No wonder Bill ran to Monica!
chickasaw42 on October 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Anyone think this hasn’t gotten around to the rest of the world leaders yet…?
Explains a lot…
Seven Percent Solution on October 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Can anyone name one thing this guy has done right yet?
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Galvanized the conservative movement?
HornetSting on October 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM
HornetSting: And helped bring back Tea Partys!!hehe:)
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Biden may be stupid, but he lacks the drive and the ego. Therefore he is less likely to monumentally screw the pooch.
redshirt on October 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM
It would really be unchartered territory, but logic tells you that if someone is ineligible to occupy the office, then the oath he took (which was necesary) would have been null and void from the start – no different than a minor signing a contract. He would never have taken office. That’s why I pointed out that he was administered the oath twice. If he were found ineligible, then both of those oaths would have been as worthless as the one that was messed up and required the second, and he would never have held the office.
But, this is uncharted, so who knows what the fools in Washington would decide? They’ve all managed to screw everything else up, so far. The SCOTUS letting the administration destroy the sanctity of contracts (the basis of Western civilization and the whole modern world) kind of did it for my confidence in them – the last 2 ton brick on the camel’s back.
In a nutshell, I cannot imagine that the military could allow him the nuclear football for even one second after a ruling that he is ineligible, and then the rest would seem to follow from there. It would seem to be an immediate thing after the ruling, to me, as if a President had just died (for a comparable situation).
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM
If Obama can’t convince the IOC to have the 2016 games in Chicago how is he going to convince Iran to stop with the nukes?
cadams on October 2, 2009 at 6:45 PM
I’m with others — give me an incompetent Joe Biden with a few reasonable staffers in place of a radical marxist narcissistic demagogue with radical cabinet members and radical, Anti-American staffers.
Biden would screw up, but at least he wouldn’t deliberately be trying to destroy the country.
AZfederalist on October 2, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Not likely going to happen with a lot of them as their pride seems to be more important to them than their nation.
MB4 on October 2, 2009 at 6:48 PM
After today’s big defeat of the notion that rhetoric, even Obama’s pedestrian rhetoric, can accomplish anything, my appetite is whetted. If someone gets nuked on Obama’s watch, we’ll console ourselves by pointing and laughing at Obama.
Kralizec on October 2, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Anyone think this hasn’t gotten around to the rest of the world leaders yet…?
Explains a lot…
Seven Percent Solution on October 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Seven Percent Solution:A chain reaction might be in place
now,in regards to Obama,as Hopey
once again thrusts himself back in
to the spotlight on the world stage!
And like Sarkoskys impression of Obam
a,world leaders whether they like it
or not,get another look at his failur
e to secure the Olympics!!
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Man…even Canadians are figuring Obama out:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Lament%20nation/2048787/story.html
That short opinion piece is right on the money!
AUINSC on October 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Their fear about what they will see coming might start to overtake their pride. You never know. pride goeth before the fall, but not always long before it :)
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Anybody also catch Krauthammer’s ‘euro-trash’ remark today on FoxNews?
Chuck is losing it, but it’s great baby.
Sapwolf on October 2, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Where’s the GRAVI`TAS??
PappaMac on October 2, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Can anyone name one thing this guy has done right yet?
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Wow! Well now that it seems everyone has weighed it on that one, I’ll ask you this. If even a moron can’t screw up everytime, and if you decided only by means of a coin-flip, you’d still have a 50/50 shot of getting it right. That does not seem to be case here.
So, at what point can it be reasonable to assume that f#@king both our demostic & foreign policy is deliberate?
Off the top, if I were a Munchurian Candidate how would I proceed?
Hmmmmm….
1) Destroy the currency, print money like there’s no tommorow=check
2) Undermine investment by negating property rights and rule of law, GM/Chrysler shareholders, mortgage cramdowns=check.
3) Cave-in to every bannana republic tyrant and voice support for ooponents of democracy everywhere=check.
4) Shake the confidence of the all allies that when push comes to shove, you probably won’t uphold your obligations=check.
5) If 4 does’nt do the trick, abandon and/or betray outright 3 front-line allies, Czechland,Poland, Israel=check.
The panel is on Fox, so that’ll make my point for now….
Archimedes on October 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Very interesting.
progressoverpeace on October 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Biden may be stupid, but he lacks the drive and the ego. Therefore he is less likely to monumentally screw the pooch.
redshirt on October 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM
redshirt: There must be some real good reasons,why Team
Hopey went with Biden and not HilRod!!
I bet HilRod has some real horror stories to
tell about Obama!!:)
canopfor on October 2, 2009 at 6:56 PM
On the brighter side, expectations are now so low that if BHO tied his shoelaces properly on air everyone would give a big round of applause.
GnuBreed on October 2, 2009 at 6:56 PM
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