An Honest Man, Trying Desperately To Get Out

You know, you can almost feel sorry for Robert "Poor Bastard" Gibbs.  To be an incompetent liar to begin with, and get stuck with the job of lying each and every day for a living on behalf of a liar who is proving himself to be not all that much more talented at it, seems to be wearing out Gibbs after only six months and change, even with a Kool-Aid-swilling White House press corps helping him man the incense braziers.

Or maybe it's just that that sycophancy lulls him into carelessness - case in point:

Adolph Ahmadinejad is the "elected leader of Iran," eh?  Only in the "official" decree of the mullahgarchy - and, of course, The Twelfth Imam (if he were Muslim, that is).  And even "Supreme Leader" himself (Ali Khamenie, that is) is becoming less comfortable with it.  Imagine the gratitude of the sixty-seven million or so Iranians who are still futilely trying to "speak the truth to power" and paying the price that American town hall attendees are learning about first hand this week.  Makes you wonder, when they chant "death to the dictator," just which "Supreme Leader" they're talking about.

I guess "Baghdad Bob" got whupped upside the head for his accidental candor, because the retreat wasn't long in coming:

On Air Force One today, Gibbs told reporters that he wanted to “correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say it’s not for me to pass judgment on. He’s been inaugurated, that’s a fact. Whether any election was fair, obviously the Iranian people still have questions about that and we’ll let them decide that. But I would simply say he’s been inaugurated and we know that is simply a fact.

Asked if the White House recognizes Ahmadinehad as the leader, elected fairly or not, Gibbs said it’s not “for us to denote his legitimacy, except to acknowledge the fact.”

Does the White House think the election was fair?

“That’s not for us to pass judgment on,” Gibbs said. “I think that’s for the Iranian people to decide, and obviously there are many that still have a lot of questions.

Not much of a walkback, if you ask me.  Those millions of Iranian protestors fighting and dying in the streets of Tehran and other municipalities as the Islamic regime's thugs whale away with billyclubs and rat-a-tat-tat away with machine guns and sniper rifles don't seem to have any "questions" about the Geico Caveman's "legitimacy".  Nor are they getting any role in "deciding" a hamfisted fix job that was "decided" before it ever took place.

It is, of course, entirely "for us to pass judgment on".  That's part & parcel of conducting foreign policy.  For any Obamunist flack to adopt the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" pose is every bit the tacit endorsement of everything the mullahgarchy has done that Gibbs' original "gaffe" expressed overtly.

You can't help but notice the contrast in fibricating expertise with the Gargoyle who is allegedly Barry O's top diplomat:

Today in Kenya, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Ahmadinejad, “we don’t always get to deal with the government that we want to…We take the reality that the person who was inaugurated today will be considered the president.”

The Empress deftly encapsulated in two crisp sentences everything the Poor Bastard spent two whole days fumbling, bumbling, and stumbling.  Didn't take a stand, didn't criticize the mullahs, didn't question Ahmadinejad's legitimacy, yet managed to not sound like she was endorsing it.

Frankly, it beats me why False Messiah wants to be coy about his pro-Iranian/anti-Israel stance.  It's not like it's much of a secret anyway, and which his own thugs running around laying the One's smack down on anybody who questions him, it's not like he'd have much to lose.  But if the Li'l President is going to insist on being dishonest, he needs mouthpieces who aren't utterly spin-incompetent.  As he's finding out with his health care putsch, bad lying is worse than telling it like it is.

My advice?  Have Hillary and Gibbs switch jobs.  With how thoroughly The Chosen One has neutered the SecState slot with all his "personal envoys," it's not like Gibbs could do any more damage at Foggy Bottom.  And it would be, as it were, "bringing an enemy closer".