PATHETIC – AT 12:31 P.M. ET:  President Obama regularly reminds us of why he's often called "the amateur."  It's because he is.  From Reuters: 

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama expressed optimism on Saturday that major world powers and Iran could finalize a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program despite strong words this week from the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Obama downplayed Khamenei's demands that a final deal result in an end to all sanctions on Iran, telling reporters at the Americas summit in Panama that Khamenei and others in Iran were addressing their own internal politics.

"Even a guy with the title 'Supreme Leader' has to be concerned about his own constituencies," Obama said.

The Supreme Leader executes his opponents.  He doesn't worry about them.

"There may be ways of structuring a final deal that satisfy their pride, their optics, their politics, but meet our core practical objectives," Obama said at the news conference.

That is impossible by definition.  Doesn't this student-government president understand that?

Iran and world powers reached a framework nuclear agreement on April 2 that would require Iran to shut down parts of its nuclear program that could be used to build a bomb, and accept intrusive inspections, in exchange for the West lifting economic sanctions.

Negotiators need to finalize technical details by June 30.

"What I've always said, though, is that there's the possibility of backsliding," Obama said, noting the final deal would require tough talks and may not result in a deal that he would sign.

COMMENT:  The problem is that we've already made so many concessions that the deal, even whitewashed, is less than the very minimum that Obama set for it only a few years ago.

We also now learn that Iran's ballistic-missile program is off the table.  They won't discuss it.  It will be taken up by the UN, which means it won't be taken up seriously at all.  But why?  The only purpose for ballistic missiles is carrying nuclear warheads.  If Iran weren't intent on developing nuclear weapons, why would they need ICBM's?  Why won't they even discuss them?

Obama's amateurism, combined with his chronic deceit, is a very dangerous brew for this country and for civilization.  This is what happens when you put a kid in the White House.

April 12,  2015