QUOTE OF THE MORNING - AT 7:58 A.M. ET:  From Wesley Pruden, in the Washington Times:

Barack Obama, like the "progressives" he represents, is proud of a mind so open that his brains are forever at risk of falling out.

Uh, yeah. 

I'm always amused at how this crowd calls itself "progressive."  What progress have they ever achieved?  Some of them, especially on the Democratic Party's fringe left, openly support some of the world's worst dictatorial regimes, especially the one in Cuba.  Nothing progressive there.

Pruden also says this, worthy of note:

The war in Afghanistan is in its ninth year, and Americans are impatient. Maybe in the end the president will decide to cut and run. Maybe that will be the popular decision. Maybe "narrowing the focus" is a better strategy. Maybe sending more troops is even better. But further dithering won't impress anybody, and asking an American soldier to be the last man to die in an abandoned cause is too much for any president, no matter how pretty the speech, to ask.

COMMENT:  But pretty speech is what this president is about, and he believes it can move mountains, even if it can't move the International Olympic Committee.

October 6, 2009