visible foreign policy guy be one of the most visible foreign policy guys from the iraq war. but you make a calculation, right? you make a calculation in politics against the spokesman for iraq thin. on the other side of the ledger about hiring dan senore, maybe they like his ideas. it was one of his ideas that palestinians have an inferior culture to israelis. which is why they re more poor. it is that idea romney expounded on a trip this week. to lots of fanfare. lending ideas like that to mr. romney, the campaign saw as enough of an asset to outweigh his iraq war baggage. i would maybe not have made that call, but that apparently is the kind of calculation the romney campaign made. you have to make a calculation. what do you gain and what do you lose? similarly there s what they made
adviser. and of course the romney campaign is not dumb. they knew that would be a liability to have their most visible foreign policy guy be one of the most visible foreign policy guys from the iraq war. but you make a calculation, right? you make a calculation in politics against the spokesman for iraq thin. on the other side of the ledger about hiring dan senore, maybe they like his ideas. it was one of his ideas that palestinians have an inferior culture to israelis. which is why they re more poor. it is that idea romney expounded on a trip this week. to lots of fanfare. lending ideas like that to mr. romney, the campaign saw as enough of an asset to outweigh his iraq war baggage. when the campaign decided to take him on. i would maybe not have made that call, but that apparently is the kind of calculation the romney campaign made. you have to make a calculation.
speech was given at the state department, he would not have given that speech if she hadn t okayed it. dan, instead of teeing the ball up here, i m trying to figure out a way to fight with you. no. is this, though, the president rushing forward with this speech before september? is this really could this be seen as a play to protect the israelis when america vetoes the resolution for palestinian recognition? that s what the administration argues. a couple officials i spoke to said he s going to entrepreneur this week and he needs to meet with northwestern officials and show them he s being tough in israel when he s asking them to support him in stopping the palestinians at the u.n. in september. leaving aside the substance for a minute, it s the process, the style. keep in mind the context netanyahu was arriving in washington, the bashir nuclear
up, at least give me lead time you normally do. well, they were still writing the speech on the way to the state department, still doing rewrites. dan and mark halperin will show me a clip. others are talking about george bush, your former boss, talking about 1949 borders. is what george bush said in 2008 very similar to what the president said, president obama said on friday? what bush said in the letter in 2004 to ariel sharon was everyone knows the new consensus is the 1967 borders are unacceptable. that is not or unrealistic. that is not what president obama said thursday. he has since cleaned it up in his speech to aipac yesterday but thursday, not what he said. in 2008, president bush talks about the plan has to go back to 1949, would have 1949 borders with adjustments.
thursday, that s my opinion. what mika said maybe everybody is a little too sensitive. we re not going to get anywhere. we re going to get nowhere, which is par for the course. dan senore. this stuff is very sensitive. anyone involved in speech drafting for a president for a major policy address knows it goes through a long interagency process. andrew is right, every semi colon, not just this issue, any foreign policy issue, they put a lot of thought into it with every semi colon and word and in this geopolitical environment where the middle east is up in flames, the speech wasn t subjected to that process, like hem handed, last minute, told netanyahu one thing would be in it and something else was in it and it was a little jarring. i think we ll go to break and let s move on to other news next block, can we?