I just got word that none other than Senator Barack Obama is George W. Bush's clandestine National Security Adviser--Stephen Hadley is just a beard.

How can this be, you may ask?  Well, dear reader, it's all very simple. 

Back in the primaries, Senator Obama made-- what was considered extremely controversial at the time--a claim that as President he wouldn't wait for a dithering Musharraf to act if actionable intelligence presented itself about the whereabouts of  high value Al Qaeda targets.  He would act, decisively, to remove those targets, unilaterally if necessary.  Not too many months later, lo and behold, Bush orders air strikes in Pakistan against Al Qaeda targets, striking the enemy dead.  Hoo Yaa!

During this same time in the primaries, Obama makes another fantastical claim, one that was used to paint him as naive about the ways of our world, by saying he would meet with Iran and other nefarious figures in the region, without preconditions.  The outcry was deafening!

Now we have word that Bush is dispatching the third highest ranking diplomat to meet with the Iranian leadership.  A move considered an abrubt change in Bush foreign policy.  A move that Bush himself mocked as a form of appeasement recently before the Israeli Knesset.

Yes folks, it's true.  Bush has been soliciting and accepting foreign policy advice from none other than Senator Barack Obama.  The so-called naive latte-sipping neophyte from Illinois.

McCain, not to be outdone, has recently appropriated some Obama foreign policy vis-a-vis Afghanistan, and is now advocating increasing troop strength in this volatile country.  McCain doesn't know where these troops will come from yet, but my sources inform me that he's scheduled a call with Obama later in the day to flesh it out.

So, there you have it!  The scoop du jour!