Looks like Dad's getting ready to play ball with the kids while Mom's upset with them and ramping up the threats ...
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/...unning_out

Quote:According to excerpts of her prepared remarks that were shared with Foreign Policy, Clinton plans to say that "the international agenda today is unforgiving," with the United States facing "two wars, conflict in the Middle East, ongoing threats of violent extremism and nuclear proliferation, global recession, climate change, hunger and disease, and a widening gap between rich and poor."

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(But for all the collaboration with the White House over her remarks, Obama is scheduled to give Rose Garden remarks on health care five minutes into Clinton's big speech. Asked about the scheduling overlap, a White House official said it's an entirely different set of issues and reporters, and Obama's remarks are not expected to last for more than a few minutes.)

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Clinton's prepared remarks underscore Obama's recent suggestion that Iran has until September to respond to U.S. offers to negotiate, or face unspecified consequences. Administration officials have suggested in numerous recent venues that they will pursue the attempted engagement track with Iran until the end of the year, but with diminisihed expectations that it will succeed. After December, they believe that they have increased likelihood of international support, in particular from Russia, for a more aggressive sanctions regime.

A real test of this administration will be (1) whether they remember that they've made this threat or pusilanimous out, and (2) whether they can bring in the other major nations into the fold to apply any kind of sanctions. Somewhere, there are Basiji, Ninjas, and Martians laughing ...