NORTH KOREA ATTACKS OBAMA

The North Koreans issued a dispatch the other day; written in Korean, it went after both the South Korean President and Obama.  A recent translation: "It would be better for him to live with other monkeys at a wild animal park in Africa ... and licking bread crumbs thrown by onlookers."  The lengthy diatribe called Obama a “clown,” a “dirty fellow” and somebody who “does not even have the basic appearances of a human being.”  

Well, as difficult as it is, let's set aside for the moment the proposition that the North Koreans might be correct.  It's one thing to rattle your saber and jump up and down like a little tyrant and threaten to nuke America.  That repeated stance by Kim Jong Un has had little or no reaction in official Washington; Obama has even refused to discuss North Korea's acquisition of nuclear technology and past bomb tests.  

Why then is every State Department official and White House flunky now coming unglued over this latest barrage of remarks directed at Obama?  Are they trying to tell us that it's okay for North Korea to threaten to nuke the United States, but it's not okay for them to insult President Obama?  

So the saying actually goes: "Sticks and stones will never hurt me, but words will?"

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.