Explains perfectly why people are continually surprised over Obama. It's like Madelaine Albright out in front of the Clinton White House saying, “The president has assured me that the sexual allegations are all false”.
There's a line in the old Cary Grant film Charade referring to a senior diplomat that goes, “Well, if I bluffed the old man out of the pot with a pair of deuces, what are the Russians doing to him?”
OR...
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance...
Baffle them with bullsh!t!