THE VIRTUE OF SILENCE – AT 7:51 A.M. ET:  Did you ever entertain the thought that Mr. Obama should occasionally avail himself of the right to shut up?

In his interview with Bill O'Reilly before yesterday's Super Bowl game, the president rambled from point to point, saying nothing much, but too often sounding foolish.

For example, regarding the Muslim Brotherhood, a fierce, anti-American, fundamentalist organization that gave birth to Al Qaeda, we got this:

"The Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt. They don't have majority support in Egypt, but they are well organized and there are strains of their ideology that are against the U.S., there's no doubt about it," Obama said. "But here's the thing that we have to understand, there are a whole bunch of secular folks in Egypt, there are a whole bunch of educators and civil society in Egypt that wants to come to the fore as well. So it's important for us not to say that our own only two options are either the Muslim Brotherhood or a suppressed people."

Yeah, that guy Hitler, he's just one fella.  Doesn't have much support.

Letting the Muslim Brotherhood into the Egyptian government is like letting a rattlesnake into your living room, with the hope it stays in a corner.  This fascistic organization has its tentacles all over the world, and has no interest in democracy.  It wants to impose Sharia law, but Mr. Obama seems unconcerned.

And those Japanese ships approaching Pearl Harbor are filled with tourists.

The president also downplayed talk that he's moved to the center, claiming he's the same guy he always was.  That's frightening enough, but it was the perception that he'd moved centrist that gave him a recent boost in the polls.  That boost is easing back, now that the truth is coming out.

Oh, do we need candidate Reagan now.

February 7, 2011