McCain tells Obama, ‘Get over temper tantrum’

Sen. John McCain urges Obama to “get over” his “temper tantrum” over Netanyahu’s comments, and says the president “has his priorities so screwed up it’s unbelievable” with regard to the Middle East.

“There was a free and fair democratic election, the only nation in the region that will have such a thing. The president should get over it. Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President. It’s time that we work together with our Israeli friends and try to stem this tide of ISIS and Iranian movement throughout the region, which is threatening the very fabric of the region,” McCain told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Netanyahu’s remarks are “the least of your problems,” he says, stressing that the comments were said during an election campaign.

When pressed by the interviewer as to whether Obama should simply ignore Netanyahu’s rejection of the two-state solution, he says: “I think maybe the president shouldn’t like it, but thousands are being slaughtered by ISIS… Bibi’s rhetoric concerning an election campaign pales in comparison to the threat, the direct threat to the United States of America, of ISIS. The president has his priorities so screwed up that it’s unbelievable.”

McCain says that if Obama would back a UN resolution for Palestinian statehood, “Congress would have to reexamine our funding for the United Nations.”

Such a move would be a “violation” and would contradict US policy for “at least ten presidencies,” McCain says.