Obama considers pressure from Netanyahu on Iran as “noise” that he can “block out”

Amazing. In response to being questioned by 60 Minutes reporter Steven Kroft about feeling pressure from Netanyahu to draw a line in the sand on Iran, Obama replies (h/t: Weekly Standard):

When it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that I feel is simply to do what’s right for the American people. And I am gonna block out any noise that’s out there.

Here’s the clip:

Later in the interview Obama was asked about Romney’s criticism of his foreign policy, that our friends don’t know where we stand and our enemies think we are weak. Obama defended his foreign policy by citing that he’s decimated Al Qaeda, killed Bin Laden, and ended the war in Iraq. He then said that if Romney thinks we should start another war, he should say so:


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