“President Barack Obama spoke out about the recent violence that has enveloped our neighbor to the south and has begun to spill over from Mexico into the United States. He admitted that he has been weighing the possibility of moving National Guard troops to the border in an effort to contain the violence but ruled out immediate military action.

“We’re going to examine whether and if National Guard deployments would make sense and under what circumstances,” said President Obama, “I think it’s unacceptable if you’ve got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing U.S. citizens.”

One thousand people have already died along the border in 2009 alone, and almost 6 thousand died in 2008. Phoenix, AZ has seen a huge uptick in violence, earning the dubious title of “kidnapping capital of America” while “rape trees” are being found in increasing numbers on the US side of the border…..”

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 Comment:

OK. This calls for some Clintonian parsing.

“weighing the possibility” = it’s gonna happen

“ruled out immediate action” = let’s test the waters for now, but wait a bit before going all Wyatt Earp down there

On the positive side, the Sooth-Sayer-In-Chief did admit mundane reality into the thick fog of DC-speak when he conceded that for every drug sale northward, there was a gun sale southward.