During his press conference with Italy's prime minister earlier today, Donald Trump took a moment to channel his inner Barack Obama when he declared he'd be glad to meet with Iran without any preconditions.
We at C&L are old enough to remember when Fox News and the media set their hair on fire ten years ago over then-candidate Obama's claim he would be fine meeting with Iran without setting conditions.
In 2009, a Fox News panel said there's simply no way Obama could meet with Iran because their election results were fraudulent. (LOL).
In 2008, Fox News' Brit Hume explained why it was a silly, frivolous claim for Obama to even suggest such a thing:
I mean, you just stop and think about it. When you sit down at a table with somebody, you expect them to offer you something, but you have to offer them something in return. It's not for the point -- it's not for the purpose of just having a nice chat and getting to know one another.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg. It was a HUGE freakout, with John McCain's camp holding conference calls where stellar surrogates such as then-Rep. Pete Hoekstra claimed that Obama "has set himself up for a policy direction that undercuts our allies."
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