Marie Harf (State Department Spokesweasel)

"[O]ur goal is to see forward momentum...We've never said it was a hard and fast deadline."

- Commenting about Syria missing this weekend's deadline "to submit an inventory of its toxic stockpiles and facilities to international inspectors." - Shashank Bengali and Paul Richter

Not a "deadline," aye?

"We agreed that Syria must submit within a week - not in 30 days, but in one week - a comprehensive listing...(We will allow) no games, no room for avoidance, or anything less than full compliance." - Secretary of State Johnny Heinz-Kerry (last weekend)

Sounds like Marie's boss made a "deadline" to me:  "not in 30 days, but in one week."...A deadline the likes of which we can expect Syria to flout every week going forward.

But what do we expect from the foreign policy jokers running Team Obama - otherwise known as the Gang That Can't Shoot Straight...Or shoot at all for that matter.

Senator Zell Miller (Democrat) put it best back in 2004 - he was talking about presidential candidate Heinz-Kerry, but Obama fits just as well:  "This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?  U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?"