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Today's parental TV press-statement gig was embarrassing, bereft of any content.....and hokey. Forty-five minutes of fluff and set-up for the future book and TV appearances by mom and dad until the son returns home and learns English again. Then the threesome will hit the creamed-chicken circuit and clean up. Wait and see.....the father is subdued and 'umble today, but tomorrow watch his liberalism flow like the sands in a godforsaken mideast desert.

My gut tells me that the father is a composite of every smug, touchy-feely, emotional, glib, wordy, girly, dedicated liberal I've ever met in my years of political activity and activism.

Even the untrimmed Muslim beard doesn't bolster or enhance his persona one bit.

I finally turned the duo off. I just can't picture a conservative Army dad taking the podium and deliver the mealy-mouthed, rambling, time-wasting message he delivered today.

The fact that there really was no message at all touching at least a hint of patriotism, American exceptionalism or the buddies in the son's unit overseas, etc. tells me a lot.

I know I would have gotten in, at the least, a thinly-disguised barb at Barak who had FIVE years to spring the son from his prison. but seemingly never even tried.

But this dad will end up being Obama's shill and willing pawn for the next two-and-a-half years. You can bank on it.

Leni