Obama says the election would be “as stark a choice as we have seen.”

The president told top donors in New York that he had made American foreign policy stronger during his first term, vowing that U.S. support for Israel’s security is “nonnegotiable.” He also defended his administration’s approach to Iran, saying even Tehran has acknowledged that U.S. sanctions are having an impact.
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Obama said the election would be “as stark a choice as we have seen,” noting that he shared similar views with 2008 GOP nominee John McCain on banning torture, climate change and closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “If you’ve been listening to the Republican debates, they have moved. I’ve stayed here. They’ve gone in a different direction.”