SMART DIPLOMACY: Democratic senator says he almost vomited after reading Vladimir Putin’s op-ed. “The reality is, I worry when someone who came up to the KGB tells us what is in our national interests an what is not.”
Related: Michael Barone: Obama’s wing-it diplomacy undermines US credibility.
UPDATE: Flashback Video Open Thread: Team Lightbringer Mocks Romney for Saying Russia Is Our Foe.
ANOTHER UPDATE: 10 Reasons Why It’s Now Worse.
Yes, Obama’s an even bigger laughingstock than he was on Monday, which is saying something. It would be funny, if it weren’t bad for the country.
MORE: I thought my optics joke below was pretty good, but IowaHawk surpasses me with math humor: Obama’s “calculus” turns out to be a big steaming natural log.