Fact Checking Obama's Presser.

Was busy doing other things yesterday, so I missed it first-hand. Something about the president having a Jimmy Carter moment and consulting with his two daughters, ages 10 and 13, on how he should respond to this gay marriage issue? And they told him to get with the program, Dad, and don't be afraid to call for equal rights -- in all states -- for equal citizens? And did they bring up their late white grandmother too, reminding him that it seems silly in retrospect, to require a state-by-state vote to see if the population agreed that his two parents had a right to legally be together?

Anyway, here's the WaPo wondering, same as me, why all of a sudden Gaddafi is Public Enemy number two (behind the dead Osama), even after his administration had been playing nice with the dictator in the very recent past...

“Moammar Gaddafi, who prior to Osama bin Laden was responsible for more American deaths than just about anybody on the planet, was threatening to massacre his people. . . . As a consequence, a guy who was a state sponsor of terrorist operations against the United States of America is pinned down, and the noose is tightening around him.”

Yes, Gaddafi is a bad guy, but Obama conveniently ignores the fact that until the uprising, the administration was rushing to do business with him. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with one of Gaddafi’s sons, Mutassim Gaddafi, in 2009, declaring, “I’m very much looking forward to building on this relationship.”

It is especially strange for Obama to rhetorically place Libya back on the list of the state sponsors of terrorism when, in fact, it was removed four years ago — after Gaddafi gave up his illicit weapons programs, renounced terrorism and paid billions of dollars to settle claims with terror victims.