SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:48 P.M. ET:

McCAIN BLASTS OBAMA – John McCain nails who Obama really is.  From Fox:  "Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Obama is letting his personal issues with newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affect his decision-making and shared policy goals.  'It’s time that we work together with our Israeli friends and try to stem the tide of ISIS and Iranian movement throughout the region, which is threatening the very fabric of the region,' McCain, R-Ariz., said on CNN's 'State of the Union.'  During the interview, McCain called out Obama and told him: 'Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President.'  McCain went on to admonish the administration’s Middle East policies and said Obama’s priorities are 'so screwed up that it’s unbelievable.' He added that he was 'convinced' Obama was letting his personal feelings get in the way."  And that's a mild interpretation.  Obama, as we've said here before, is childlike, a glorified town councilman.  But he's also a soldier of the left, with contempt for America and a chilling respect for dictatorships. 

PROBLEM POLL – A new CNN/ORC poll is said to be bad news for Republicans, but isn't.   From Townhall.com:  "Email-gate may have dominated the headlines over the past few weeks, but evidently the scandal hasn’t trickled down to the grassroots level—at least not yet. And perhaps it never will. To wit, a newish CNN/ORC poll, which conducted head-to-head hypothetical matchups between Hillary Clinton and all the leading presumptive Republican hopefuls, is anything but positive news for the GOP. Though Jeb Bush (16 percent) leads the pack of Republicans, no candidate even comes close to defeating Hillary Clinton one-on-one (via Bill Kristol)."  Sorry, but a look at the poll's methodology paints a different picture.  It was taken among all adults, the least accurate respondent pool.  The next up in accuracy would be registered voters.  And the most accurate would be likely voters.  Surveys of likely voters almost always show the greatest Republican strength, as Republicans are more likely to vote.  Disregard the CNN/ORC poll.

MAJOR APOLOGY NEWS – From CNN:  "New Delhi, India (CNN)The North Korean ambassador in Bangladesh issued an apology after one of the embassy's diplomats was caught carrying 27 kilograms (59 pounds) of undeclared gold into the country's main airport in Dhaka, according to officials in Bangladesh.  North Korean officials could not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, state media in the largely isolated communist country has not yet reported on the incident.  Kazi Muhammad Ziauddin, a top official in Bangladesh's customs agency, told CNN his officers discovered the gold on the afternoon of March 5th, after the diplomat arrived on a Singapore Airlines flight.  How do you hide 59 pounds of gold?  I'm relieved.  These people are more incompetent than I thought.

March 22, 2015