McConnell to Obama: Stop demonizing Iran deal opponents Umm, right. Joke of the day- "Presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the pact would make the Obama administration "the world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism" because lifting the sanctions would restore money to Iran that it could use to support terrorist groups it sponsors. Another GOP presidential contender, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, said Obama is marching Jews "to the door of the oven" — a reference to both the Holocaust and Israel's strong opposition to the agreement. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said of Obama, "He's carrying on in the finest traditions of Neville Chamberlain," the British prime minister best known for unsuccessfully trying to appease Germany's Adolf Hitler before World War II."