Clyburn to GOP: ‘Be Very, Very Careful About How You Treat this President’

Last week, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) sat down with Voice of America host Carol Castiel and network congressional correspondent Cindy Saine and offered a warning to President Barack Obama’s Republican opposition while discussing the nuclear deal the president is pushing for with Iran.

When asked about the Iran deal Clyburn said, “Well yes, I think so.  It’s one thing to review it.  It’s something else to veto.  I don’t think that Congress ought to have any right to circumvent the president.  And this foolishness that has been going on up here, it’s just foolishness.  And we have to be very, very careful and for people to not see … Look,  I am old enough to have seen and paid close attention to many presidents, all the way back to Truman.  I first, got interested in politics when Truman ran against Dewey back in 1948.  And I have following closely every president ever since.  And so I will say to my friends, ‘Be very, very careful about how you treat this President, because turnabout is fair play.  And I think that this president has not been treated with dignity and respect that he should be treated with.  Especially when it comes to his dealing with foreign countries.  And that, to me, is a big problem here.  So I support this country speaking with one voice when we get beyond the water’s edge.  That is not taking place now.  So these shenanigans that took place here, the letter that they wrote, the invitation to Netanyahu to address them, to me went beyond the pale.”

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