The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “City Rep. Beto O’Rourke Won’t Run for Congress”–headline, El Paso Times, Dec. 16
- “No Plans to Sign Russia Nuclear Deal This Week: U.S.”–headline, Reuters, Dec. 15
- “AP Exclusive: Tourists Enjoy White House Breakfast”–headline, Associated Press, Dec. 15
- “Copenhagen Climate Summit: Prince Charles Warns Climate Change Will Drive Starvation and Terrorism”–headline, Daily Telegraph (London), Dec. 15
‘I Don’t Have Any Weapons of Mass Destruction’
“President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as part of an intense effort to draw the reclusive nation back to nuclear disarmament talks, a senior State Department official said Tuesday,” the Associated Press reports.
And as Hans Blix would say, Kim had better cooperate “or else we will be very angry with you, and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.”
You’ve got to laugh at the AP’s continuing Obama puffery, though. Writing a letter amounts to an “intense effort”? Just what kind of letter did Obama write?
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