THE PERFORMER PERFORMS – AT 10:14 A.M. ET:  Obama's appearance on "60 Minutes" last night was stunning.  First, Steve Kroft showed us he actually has a pulse, and asked tough, penetrating questions.  Maybe some in the press, having helped put Obambi in power, have decided not to go down with his sinking ship.

Second, Obama made a total fool of himself.  He couldn't answer a single foreign-policy question intelligently.  He is being exposed for what he is – a small-time Chicago precinct captain with a golden voice.  From Andrew Malcolm at IBD: 

Where to begin? In an interview broadcast Sunday night, President Obama claimed Russian President Putin's recent major military moves in Syria are a sign of weakness and present no challenge to the American leader.

Well, that's a relief, isn't it?

Because after annexing Crimea, fomenting armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine, ignoring Obama's ineffective economic sanctions, selling arms to Iran, moving troops and naval assets into Syria, delivering a diplomatic note ordering U.S. planes from Syrian skies, then bombing Assad regime opponents, all in defiance of the American leader, it sure did strike some as a pretty clear challenge.

In what became a rather contentious interview, after some previous softball sessions, "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft addressed Obama: "You said a year ago that the United States – America leads. We're the indispensable nation. Mr. Putin seems to be challenging that leadership."

"In what way?" responded the disingenuous Democrat, attempting to put his interrogator on the defensive.

In the interview taped Oct. 6, Kroft proceeded to detail the Russian moves against U.S. wishes. To which Obama responded, "So that's leading, Steve?"

Notice what Obama did there. He twisted Kroft's question to concern leading, which Kroft had not asked, and away from the real question of challenge, which Obama could not answer without seeming even dimmer. Later, Obama added:

“If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership."

Obama's responses fit perfectly with the widespread impression, especially after his long crafting of a hollow Iran nuclear deal, that Obama sees the world as he wants it to be, not as it really is.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's a gem.  When Obama ran for president, he became the dream of the sixties generation.  That dream has now turned into our nightmare.  Our children will pay the price.

October 12, 2015