again: the president gets the biggest, greatest, bestest briefings in the whole world.

i don't know why he insists on speaking like a character in a lewis carroll novel. but, he certainly doesn't have a deficit of information available to him. and, like the most allegorical texts, he shouldn't be discarded offhand - as absurd as he so frequently sounds, his statements need to be analyzed carefully.

no. that's what we learned. and, unlike you, i'm not a slow learner.