Very well said, but you need to fix this typo: "The people of the world want their bread and circuses, and if the prospect of honoring Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as the Olympics did in 1936, the Soviet Communism (1980) or the tyrants of Beijing (2008) could [SHOULD BE: COULD NOT] derail the show, then it isn’t likely that many will care about sweeping the memory of Munich under the rug in London this year."

"The fact is, Americans knew about this and the majority voted for Obama anyway "--No. Pundits knew about this. The whole issue with this is that Americans did not know about it. It was not reported in any meaningful way in the MSM.

Jonathan, if it is such bad politics, then why is Obama trying so hard to prevent any mention of it?

LOL!!!

Can we have a moritorium on the use of the word "cynical" or "deeply cynical" to describe Barack Obama? The first definition of "cynical" is (and I quote from a prominent online dictionary): " distrusting or disparaging the motives of others". Peter, in our world, that is not an insult, and in some ways is a compliment. Obama is far, far worse than a cynic. He is a liar. He is vainglorious. He puts himself above the country. But please don't compliment him or let him off the hook by calling him a cynic.

Obama has NOT been played for a fool, but I fear you have if you believe he has been. He desperately wants this exact outcome (only probably more favorable to Iran if at politically possible). Why do you assume he means what he says? Has he earned the benefit of the doubt? Just because he is the POTUS and he just MUST have good intentions and just MUST be operating from good faith?

This is disgusting.

There was a great political cartoon during Clinton's presidency which essentially said that Clinton could make child sacrifices to the God Baal and people wouldn't care. That goes double for Obama and Biden. People have made up their mind about Obama because he looks cool, is black and says words that push the right buttons in our benumbed minds. It is hopeless unless someone starts powerfully deconstructing the lies, bad motives, will to power and utter vanity of this horrible and evil man (evil not because he is like a Nazi, but because he is against American ideals, and puts himself above the country, which in my book is evil).

Thank God Lugar is gone.

You are right: They might be forced into caving on other very very important things like lowering taxes or lowering spending elsewhere in order to prevent the even more important goal of protecting our national defense. My original point is that it was moronic for Republicans to put themselves into that bind in the first place. There was no reason to. And by the way, the "painful cuts" to Democrat programs are not nearly as large as cuts to Defense. This was idiotically conceived and structured from the get go.