Tom Cole: Obama’s U.N. Vote Abstention Was the Last in a Series of Calculated Insults’

COLE: "He’s let it out personally a couple of times when microphones caught him, that they certainly didn’t like President Netanyahu. Kept him waiting one time, famously, in the White House while the President and his family had dinner. Didn’t invite the Prime Minister to join them. So, I think it’s been, you know, a series of calculated insults. And I think this was a last insult on the way out the door. I don’t think it makes the president look very well. And certainly to do something that you know is deliberately at odds with what the incoming president is going to do on a stage this big, I think, shows a certain pettiness that I’m surprised to see in President Obama, who usually rises above these sorts of things.”