So How Does This Affect Obama's Grade?

When Mr. B+ graded himself during the Oprah twinkie-munch session the other night one of the reasons he states was the halting of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

He also said America has "reset" its prestige in the world and made progress toward halting development of nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea.

What say you now, Mr. Obama?

First, Iran made a quantum leap forward with its missile technology. The predecessor to the Sejil was the Shahab missile, which was a liquid-fueled single-stage rocket, copied from the North Korean Nodong missile. The Sejil shows that Iranian engineers have left North Korea behind and are producing indigenous missile technology. Rubin says the Iranian missile capability has jumped from the type of missiles the U.S. had in the 50’s to the type the US had in the 60’s.

Solid fuel is important because the missile can be stored with a full tank. Liquid fueled rockets are stored empty. Fueling rockets takes time and gives an adversary like Israel time to scramble defenses, possibly enough time to destroy the missile before it is launched.

This test also shows Iran ’s aggressiveness with the missile program. “The advance rate is phenomenal,” says Rubin, noting that Iran has now conducted three missile tests in 13 months. It shows just how high a priority missile technology is for the Shiite regime. Rubin says, “They need to keep testing to prove their past successes were not spurious.”

Obviously Obama could care less. He has his priorities, first of which is "getting a win" on healthcare, the American people be damned.