OBAMA ON the Iranian elections: “When I got to the language quoted above, especially when Obama seems to have confidence that the Iranian government is really looking into irregularities, and points out our lack of international observers, I swear I thought Jim was going to reveal at the end that this was an exceedingly clever parody of President Obama. Sadly, no. The special irony is the widespread reports that the Obama Administration would like to bring down Netanyahu’s government in Israel. I suppose we can’t expect Obama to say ‘that we in the United States do not want to make any decisions for the [Israelis], but we do believe that the [Israeli] people and their voices should be heard and respected.'”