The Power of the First Impression - Barack Obama, White House

Larwyn's 'Lines: 'Americans are not human beings'
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Petraeus may indeed be "the one" : TAB Obama and the 9/11 Families : WSJ The Chicago Catastrophe : TAB Who do Democrats blame? : Kinghoffer Enhanced lying : IBD How free is your state? : Surber Benedict Arlen: traitors never prosper : PJM (Meister) Pelosi folds, admits she lied : GWP World The Hamas 'Peace' Gambit : RCP HuffPo: A Magnet for Hate : CAMERA Seven existential threats : Commentary When Obama meets Netanyahu : WSJ Iran's Ayatollah Khatami: "Americans Are Not Human Beings" ...

The Power of the First Impression
Israpundit — When President Obama meets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, behind the diplomatic niceties, their encounter will have profound implications for confronting the threat of a nuclear Iran. by Elliot Abrams, Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2009 ...

A Primer on the Bibi-Barack Meeting
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Elliott Abrams had a must-read in the Journal Saturday on the coming White House meeting. He offers guidance on how to interpret the language, the statements, the subsequent leaks, etc. And he offers this interesting assessment of what may be the most important issue on the table next week: ...

War and Piece — | Main May 12, 2009 Worth reading : Eliot Abrams in the WSJ on the power of first impressions. Posted by Laura at May 12, 2009 10:07 AM

When Bibi meets Barack
Yourish.com — ... States knows better than Israel what is good for Israel and that, therefore, the United States should pressure Israel to give in to all demands made by the Palestinians. (Seraphic Secret has a good roundup of the relevant background.) Netanyahu will have to be careful how he approaches Obama, but it’s still possible for him to make the case that while the United States and Israel have different priorities, they can still work together successfully. Elliott Abrams writes about what Netanyau needs to do: Mr. Netanyahu has to care ...