Yesterday was an interesting day. It started out with  Sec. of State John (I served in Vietnam) Kerry, putting his foot in his foot in his mouth.

Kerry was speaking on Monday alongside the UK foreign secretary, William Hague, who was forced to deny that he had been pushed to the sidelines by the House of Commons decision 10 days ago to reject the use of UK force in Syria.

The US Senate is due to vote this week on whether to approve an attack and Kerry was ambivalent over whether Barack Obama would use his powers to ignore the legislative chamber, if it were to reject an attack.

The US state department stressed that Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the one-week deadline and unlikelihood of Assad turning over Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. In a statement, the department added: “His point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That’s why the world faces this moment.”

Kerry said the US had tracked the Syrian chemical weapons stock for many years, adding that it “was controlled in a very tight manner by the Assad regime … Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad, and a general are the three people that have the control over the movement and use of chemical weapons.

“But under any circumstances, the Assad regime is the Assad regime, and the regime issues orders, and we have regime members giving these instructions and engaging in these preparations with results going directly to President Assad.

“We are aware of that so we have no issue here about responsibility. They have a very threatening level of stocks remaining.”

Kerry said Assad might avoid an attack if he handed every bit of his chemical weapons stock, but added that the Syrian president was not going to do that. He warned that if other nations were not prepared to act on the issue of chemical weapons, “you are giving people complete licence to do whatever they want and to feel so they can do with impunity”.

Kerry said the Americans were planning an “unbelievably small” attack on Syria. “We will be able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging in troops on the ground or any other prolonged kind of effort in a very limited, very targeted, short-term effort that degrades his capacity to deliver chemical weapons without assuming responsibility for Syria’s civil war. That is exactly what we are talking about doing – unbelievably small, limited kind of effort.”

By mid-morning yesterday, Russian President Putin had taken ol’ Horseface up on his magnanimous offer:

Russia and Syria embraced Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s suggestion Monday that the Syrian government could avert a U.S. attack by placing its chemical weapons under international control, upending the Obama administration’s efforts to sharpen its case for military action.

U.S. officials said Kerry’s comment, made in response to a question at a news conference in London, was not intended to be a diplomatic opening. But Kerry’s Russian and Syrian counterparts quickly followed up, and the idea drew immediate interest internationally and from top Democrats in Washington.

By the end of the day, President Obama conceded that the idea of monitoring and ultimately destroying Syria’s arsenal “could potentially be a significant breakthrough.” The Senate postponed a vote scheduled for Wednesday on whether to back a proposed punitive strike.

“I think you have to take it with a grain of salt, initially,” Obama said in an interview with NBC that was among several he gave Monday in pursuit of public backing for a military strike in response to an alleged Aug. 21 gas attack on Syrian civilians.

“We are going to run this to ground,” Obama said. “We’re going to make sure that we see how serious these proposals are.”

The President of these United States made the rounds of the news programs all day, as if he was running for another term in office, desperately trying to drum up support for getting America involved in the Syrian Civil War, on the side of al Qaeda. Here is an excerpt from an interview with Scott Pelley, Anchor of the CBS Evening News:

…I’m not looking for an excuse to engage in military action.

And I understand deeply how the American people, after a decade of war, are not interested in any kind of military action that they don’t believe involves our direct national security interests. I– I get that. And members of Congress I think understand that. But in this situation where there’s clear evidence that nobody credible around the world disputes that chemical weapons were used, that over a thousand people were killed, that the way that these weapons were delivered makes it almost certain that Assad’s forces used them, when even Iran has acknowledged that chemical weapons were used inside of Syria.

In that situation, I think the issue is not the evidence — most people around the world are not questioning that chemical weapons were used. I think the question now is what– how does the– how does the international community respond. And I think it is important for us to run to ground every diplomatic channel that we can. There’s a reason why I went to Congress in part to allow further deliberation, not just here domestically but also internationally.

But I think it’s very important for us to make sure that we understand this is important. And if the American people– are not prepared to stand up for what is a really important international norm, then I think a lot of people around the world will take that signal — that this norm is not important.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yeah, well, not yet. And I, as I said, I understand that. So I’ll have a chance to talk to the American people directly tomorrow. I don’t expect that it’s gonna suddenly swing the polls wildly in the direction of another military engagement. If you ask the average person — including my household — “Do we need another military engagement?” I think the answer generally is gonna be no.

But what I’m gonna try to propose is, is that we have a very specific objective, a very narrow military option, and one that will not lead into some large-scale invasion of Syria or involvement or boots on the ground, nothing like that. This isn’t like Iraq, it’s not like Afghanistan, it’s not even like Libya. Then hopefully people will recognize why I think this is so important.

And that we should all be haunted by those images of those children that were killed. But more importantly, we should understand that when we start saying it’s okay to — or at least that there’s no response to the gassing of children, that’s the kind of slippery slope that leads eventually to these chemical weapons being used more broadly around the world. That’s not the kind of world that we want to leave to our children.

Dear Lord. So, swinging the balance of power in Syria toward the al Qaeda-infiltrated “Rebels” is what is best “for the children”?

Not to be crass, Obama, but why didn’t you just show pictures behind you of those babies’ corpses, while you were speaking?

You wonder why we, the American people, are not supporting you? It’s garbage like that, right there.

You are a wannabe. That’s all you ever have been.

You were a wannabe Muslim (still are), “playing on the streets of Jakarta”.

You were a wannabe “cool kid”, hanging out with the Choom Gang, toking up to hide your own insecurities.

You were a wannabe “foreign student”, from all accounts, identifying yourself as such, so you could get a free ride in college.

You were a wannabe Law Review Editor at Hahvahd, never writing a single thing.

You were a wannabe Community Organizer, who sought out the local religious leaders, like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who used their calls for “Social Justice” to hide the fact that they were Marxist, just like you.

You were a wannabe Illinois State Senator, who voted present on everything, except for passing a bill to murder babies, still in their mothers’ wombs, in the third trimester.

You were a wannabe U.S. Senator, who opposed President Bush, every chance he got, still trying to hang out with the “cool Kids”, all those years later.

And now, you are a wannabe President of the United States, lacking the leadership and administrative abilities necessary for the post of Leader of the Free World.

You think that Presidentin’ is all about campaigning. And , then you wonder why you are referred to as an “empty suit”.

Tonight, you are going to speak to us, the American People, finally, from your Ivory Tower at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which used to be “The People’s House”, until you banned us from visiting it, using the “sequester” as an excuse.

An excuse which did not apply to your friends, the Muslim Brotherhood.

If you expect to gain any backing, after your platitudes tonight,for your Syrian Intervention, Obama, you are sorely mistaken.

The well-known Christian American Author, John C. Maxwell, wrote,

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

You are neither.

Until He Comes,

KJ