On his if-it's-Wednesday-this-must-be-Israel photo op tour, Barack Obama seems to have forgotten about life back home in the US of A;  about what he said  and about his responsibilities as Senator.  “Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon,” Obama said at a press conference in Sderot, Israel.But that isn't his committee; he is chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs.  But that position seems to be forgettable because as chairman he rarely had meetings of any substance.However, in his defense it must be stated he admitted:“I could fall asleep now standing up,” after Netanyahu asked him how his whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe is going.AndAn Obama spokesman tells CNN “it...(Read Full Post)