Is this what John Kerry meant by “unbelievably small”? Cheerio-sized?
#Cheerios should be trending by noon. MT @McCormackJohn If you'd like a laugh, read the Cheerios paragraph out loud http://t.co/8PNWVwfAEy …
— John Noonan (@noonanjo) September 9, 2013
==> RT @noonanjo: Tomorrow night, President Obama will address the nation on the #Cheerios War. http://t.co/xWmEhFoKSa
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 9, 2013
#Cheerios The WH comms on Syria can't get much worse. http://t.co/Ar6GS4ueQK
— Justin T. Johnson (@jus10j) September 9, 2013
Check out what our intellectual betters in the Obama administration are coming up with:
A second senior official, who has seen the most recent planning, offered this metaphor to describe such a strike: If Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away his spoon and give him a fork. Will that degrade his ability to eat Cheerios? Yes. Will it deter him? Maybe. But he’ll still be able to eat Cheerios.
Brilliant. Truly.
Cheerios? The ghost of General Patton is roaming the halls of the Pentagon looking for an idiot to slap.
— April Thompson (@oddlysaid) September 9, 2013
Seriously? This is the level of thinking going into planning a Syria strike? http://t.co/XEYW5wa0Pq
— Seth (@dcseth) September 9, 2013
Smartest. Administration. EVAH.
If someone in the Bush administration had made that analogy, MSNBC would call them racist for even assuming they had Cheerios in Syria.
— A.J. Winkelspecht (@ajwink) September 9, 2013
Unfricken believable “@bernardmccabe: Imagine if the Bush administration had come up with the #Cheerios thing. Hold Obama to that standard.”
— StaunchIndependent? (@AVoiceofReason) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/377092026162225152
Yep. Not to mention infinitely more mockable:
2 weeks ago: "Just strong enough not to be mocked." Umm… RT @seanagnew This is embarrassing. http://t.co/XEYW5wa0Pq
— Seth (@dcseth) September 9, 2013
Obama and friends are on a roll.
"And thus future historians would come to call it, 'The Cheerio War.'…"
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 9, 2013
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/377083181595623424
Good question.
https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/377094516747939841
What does he have to say about this?
When metaphors go wrong #Cheerios War
— Madchen (@imogenrosamund) September 9, 2013
Why did President Obama defer to Congress? Because he wants to do Nut N' Honey. #CheeriosDoctrine #Cheerios
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) September 9, 2013
Obama tries to be Cap'n Crunch by putting Chex on Syria's CWs, but he's Fruit Loopy, Grape Nuts — even cuckoo (for Cocoa Puffs). #Cheerios
— Joseph Curl ❎ (@josephcurl) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/KatMcKinley/status/377095770559614976
Out: waterboarding. In: Milkforking. #CheerioDoctrine #NoBloodForO
— Area Man (@lheal) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/377097982891413504
https://twitter.com/JohnGort/status/377094492177719296
Syrians are known to be adept with sporks.
— Rick Sheridan (@RickSheridan) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/377085433806454784
Did anyone in the admin notice that you can do more damage with forks than spoons? And not just to #Cheerios?
— Something Fishie (@somethingfishie) September 9, 2013
So weird. RT @sqwerin: @gabrielmalor It's almost like the people in Obama's administration have no idea what they're doing. Weird.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 9, 2013
But what if we made the spoons unbelievably small?
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) September 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/377095502183268352
In conclusion:
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 9, 2013
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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