What are they smoking ... ??

The Times On-Line almost made me split a gut with the following:

There had been high hopes of an “Obama effect” in Iran, similar to the victory for a pro-western coalition in Lebanese elections this month in which Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed “party of God”, was defeated. Obama had said that what had been true in Lebanon could be true in Iran as well – “you’re looking at people seeing new possibilities”.
Earth to Obama ... if you think your aura influenced the Lebanese elections you are totally out of touch. You were throwing Israel under the bus and that makes Lebanon vote for a pro-Western government? Must be good stuff ... magic mushrooms or something. And you were hoping this fictitious effect would have influence in Iran. Wow! The depth of the foreign policy here is breathtaking. Maybe you should send in the clowns or offer the Iranians plastic decoder rings in their Cheerios. If it were not so pathetic it would be amusing, but we have to tolerate almost four years of this kind of nonsense. I hope we can all survive the experience. It might get even funnier. Maybe he'll go to Hogwarts and study the dark arts or more likely teach them.