Like Paul Krugman, President Obama thinks Hillary Clinton is a morally deficient person for supporting the Iraq War. He also thinks she's wrong about the Iran nuclear deal. Hillary supports the agreement, but she also doesn't trust the Iranian leadership. Obama is characteristically emphatic that, upon examining all the facts, reasonable individuals will be forced to concede that he is right.
More @POTUS to columnists on Iran critics:"I would simply ask them to explain the weakness in my logic here. I don't think you'll find one."
— Matt Bai (@mattbai) August 6, 2015
.@POTUS: "I do not hear back credible arguments on the other side. I hear talking points that have been prepared." 2/2
— Matt Bai (@mattbai) August 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton is not so sure, telling supporters in New Hampshire last month that "there are people on the other side of this who I respect." Critics of the deal, she said, have a "respectable argument." Obama thinks she's dead wrong. Anyone who criticizes the deal, he said Wednesday, is making "common cause" with Iranian "hard-liners chanting 'Death to America.'" And that's not very respectable.