Russ Feingold: “These people on the Republican side are just looking for the hot button thing"

[kpete]

“These people on the Republican side are just looking for the hot button thing: ‘Can we make Obama look weak on Iran? Can we try to suggest that he doesn’t really care about Israel?’ It’s all politics. It’s not a genuine desire to get it right. And I will contrast this with Richard Nixon, who I disagreed with in terms of his obsession with Communist issues and so on, but he was a serious man, who understood foreign policy. So when he debated John Kennedy and when he was president, his foreign policy was a genuine attempt to try and solve this and his normalization of relations with China was one of the greatest accomplishments of our time. Not a single GOP candidate today has a serious understanding—or in the case of Newt Gingrich they have an intentionally false understanding—of the situation.” – Russ Feingold (via GQ)
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201202/russ-feingold-interview-politics-presidential-election-2012?currentPage=1

[butterfly77]

1. Here he is this morning..

on cbs describing how the republiCONS have treated this President differently than other Presidents'

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_162-57382609/feingold-u.s-threats-both-foreign-domestic/