What a tool:

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday disagreed with former President Jimmy Carter's overtures toward Hamas, saying he would not talk to the Islamist group until it recognized Israel and renounced terrorism... Obama said the greatest threat to Israel comes from Iran and said the United States should talk to Iran directly. "My approach to Iran will be based upon aggressive diplomacy," he said. "What it means is that we come to the table with a very clear set of objectives and a very clear set of demands -- that Iran ceases from pursuing nuclear weapons, that it stops funding Hezbollah and Hamas, that it ends its noxious statements about Israel and the threats directed towards Israel," he said.

Rewarding Hamas by having an ex-President meet with them - and ask them to accept Israel - is totally out of bounds. But meeting with Iran - and asking them to ask Hamas to accept Israel - is the height of foreign policy sophistication. All this seems to be the case even though there's at least a very, very tiny chance that Hamas can be talked into pretending to agree to a temporary ceasefire. There is, on the other hand, quite literally zero chance that Iran will give up its nuclear ambitions.

The Obama platform: we're only willing to talk with the genocidal lunatics who are too insane to even consider pretending to recognize Israel. Because that's the Hopeful approach.

References:
* Obama criticizes Carter's Hamas meeting [YNet]\
* Hamas leaders, Carter to discuss siege, Schalit [JPost]
* Mathematical Proof That Negotiating With Iran Is Stupid. Not Wrong. Stupid. [MR]

Previously:
* Mel Levine's Defense Of Obama: He'll Make Obsessed Anti-Israel Lunatics Love The US. Presumably By Magic.
* Top Obama Adviser Explains Iraq War: Turns Out, It's The Jews' Fault. Again. (Plus: Ha'aretz Political Correspondent’s Pro-Obama Apologism Getting Increasingly Desperate)
* Hamas leaders, Carter to discuss siege, Schalit [JPost]