I, and I'm not alone, remember way back more than 10 years I would guess, when a hearing was held on some kind of permit for the production end (USEC) of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant at Heath school cafeteria.

There was a young dude in a suit that was at the hearing. Afterward, and I know that several people were standing around at the time, I approached the guy and asked him who he represented. He said, USEC, and I asked him if they were shipping enriched uranium around the world, to countries such as Iran, and he said yes.

And now, today, Obama interupts what was a very compelling piece on the Today Show about previously unknown tapes of interviews that Michael Jackson had done with a Jewish rabbi several years ago in which Jackson bared his soul about how he was really feeling, so that he can tell us that Iran might be more of a nuclear threat than we thought in a couple of years. Yawn.

I am not in favor of Iran getting nuclear weapons. But I'm not in favor of them getting nuclear power either. I think the notion that somehow nuclear power is "environmentally sound" is ridiculous. We need to be getting rid of our association with everything nuclear, and so should the rest of the world.

But there are many credible reports that Israel has nuclear weapons, none of which have been disclosed if in fact they have them. So why aren't we and the other world powers making the same stink over that? I don't understand that.

But as long as the U.S. has exponentially more nuclear weapons than any other country, and spends an disproportionate amount of its budget on military spending, we have little credibility telling other countries to stand down.

Obama shouldn't worry so much about appearing tough. When he does, he often makes his rare miscalculations.