“I think it is absolutely true that what we did this year didn’t produce the kind of breakthrough that we wanted and if we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high.”
The speaker is President Obama, but a more difficult task for the casual reader is figuring out which lack of breakthrough and which high expectation raising he’s talking about:
Climate change? Nope.
Health care reform? Nope.
Reining in Wall Street? Nope.
Afghanistan? Nope.
Unemployment? Nope.
Iran? Nope.
Nuclear non-proliferation? Nope.
North Korea? Nope.
Gorilla chimes in: “The correct answer is peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and alas the President’s not any more serious about that than he is about any of the others!”
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