It was almost a funny moment: until you realized that members of the press were openly laughing at the fecklessness of the ostensible leader of the free world.
On Morning Joe, the Washington Post's Gene Robinson, his voice cracking with emotion at times, repeatedly claimed that President Obama would use military force if necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. Andrea Mitchell eventually had enough, saying in a devastating aside "ask Bashir al Assad," an allusion of course to the way President Obama ran away from his red line in Syria. Joe Scarborough laughingly joined in, repeating "ask Assad."