'Let Me Be Clear'

"Let me be clear," says Obama, and, as with George Bush's rapid eye movements when he was telling a lie, you know the forty-fourth president is on the brink of some absurdity.

"Now let me be clear," he told the Russians on his recent trip. "America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other country, nor would we presume to choose which party or individual should run a country.... America will never impose a security arrangement on another country."

And they sneer at Sarah Palin for her rhetorical absurdities? More from Obama in Moscow, as he presses forward with the Clinton/Bush policy of NATO expansion, ringing Russia with missile bases: "And let me be clear: NATO seeks collaboration with Russia, not confrontation." The last guy in the White House to be that clear was Nixon, who tossed in "perfectly" as a bonus.

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