Obama and John Kerry's nuclear deal with Iran is simply the greatest piece of diplomacy every undertaken by mankind. It's that good. Never mind that it virtually guarantees Iran will get the bomb, throws our allies under the atomic bus, and jumpstarts a mid-East arms race. You - and Congress - are not to question its complex brilliance.
For the most part, the press has been happy to play along. Reporters sit there like good little lemmings, shut their mouths, and write puff pieces in which they extoll the President's obvious genius.
...Except Major Garrett didn't play ball. The CBS White House correspondent had to go and throw some sand in Obama's nuclear Vaseline by asking a real question. The President didn't care for that one bit.
Hear that, you simpleton? You should know better. Obama cares deeply about the four Americans currently being held by Iran. It weighs upon his soul like a thousand copies of Ted Cruz's new book.
No, their lives weren't important enough to stop Obama's efforts to ensure that one of the planet's worst state sponsors of terrorism goes nuclear, but trust him. “Those folks” are at least somewhat important.
OK, sure. They aren't important enough to have been a very simple "day one" sticking point. They don't matter so much that the administration said "before we get started, release our hostages," but c'mon. You should know that Obama cares.
Fine. He doesn't care enough to think "hey, maybe a country that takes U.S. citizens hostage isn't the kind of country we want to deal with in the first place" but he's at least a little worried about them.
After all, he "met the families of some of those folks."
What's that? You wonder what those families think of this deal? They think the President who promised to do "everything possible" to bring their loved ones home just made the task much harder.
Here's the bottom line: The fact that Obama couldn't be bothered make the return of U.S. hostages a condition of a terrible deal with one of our staunchest enemies should tell you everything you need to know.
Whether it's in pursuit of legacy, agenda, or just because he's dumb enough to think this "deal" is actually a good move, the President was determined to strike his bargain. Hostages be damned. No matter what Obama says, he doesn't care - not one damn bit.
