Nice try by President Obama to change the national subject of intense public discussion from his serial scandals to his war - no, wait - he prefers “fight” against terrorism.

In an hour-long speech of nearly 7,000 words, interrupted by a persistent heckler, the former Real Good Talker reminded his audience at the National Defense University, whose mission is to study war, that the United States has “constitutional principles” that have survived many wars during more than two centuries. No kidding.

And that ”having fought for our independence, we know a price must be paid for freedom.”

Strange words indeed coming out of the mouth of an alleged constitutional law lecturer and president whose Internal Revenue Service has been illegally targeting and intimidating Americans of a certain contrary political persuasion.

Or whose F.B.I. has been checking the communications of professional journalists despite the First Amendment and labeling one of them a criminal co-conspirator in order to access his private communications and his parents’ home phone.

None of which this chief executive admits to knowing anything about because he’s apparently out of the loop on everything except the successes of SEAL Team 6.

This assertion from a president who went AWOL the entire night of the so-far unrevenged murders of four Americans in Benghazi in an attack that surprised his administration on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Most Americans outside this Democrat White House would have been surprised had there not been a terrorist attack of some kind on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Those were the campaign days when Obama bragged that al Qaeda’s leadership was “on the run.”

To the next raid, we now know.

So, while an inadequate and unreinforced consulate security force fought for its life and lost some in the country where Obama’s undeclared war against a petty dictator ignited the violence, Obama was doing something whose undetailed details an unforthcoming senior aide now calls “irrelevant.”

This from “the most transparent administration in history,” wasn’t that the phrase?

The good news is that Obama’s secret nighttime doingzzzz 9/11 did not make him tardy the next afternoon for his flight to Vegas for another round of political fundraisers.

Now, for his hastily-scheduled rhetorical distraction to work on Thursday Obama would have to convince the dangerously crabby D.C. press corps that he was making new news.

So, the president announced some tweaks to his Dr. Death Drone Policy, and -wait for it! - promised again to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility.

If you’re not a terrorist, Pres. Obama regrets your approaching demise.

No, really.

You may remember Obama ordered the facility shuttered in a grandiose photo op on his very first day in the Oval Office, even before removing the bust of that colonial cretin Winston Churchill. A symbol of his fake follow-through to come.

This time, though, Obama really means it. And if you’re still falling for his Burger King Whoppers, the Chicagoan’s got a nice bridge to sell you spanning Lake Michigan.

“To begin with, our actions are effective. Don’t take my word for it. In the intelligence gathered at bin Laden’s compound, we found that he wrote, “We could lose the reserves to enemy’s air strikes. We cannot fight air strikes with explosives.” Other communications from al Qaeda operatives confirm this as well. Dozens of highly skilled al Qaeda commanders, trainers, bomb makers and operatives have been taken off the battlefield. Plots have been disrupted that would have targeted international aviation, U.S. transit systems, European cities and our troops in Afghanistan. Simply put, these strikes have saved lives.”

We don’t take your word for it !