Obama Lied. Webster Died.

Quid pro quo.  This for that.  The money don't flow till our prisoners go. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ransom as "a consideration paid or demanded for the release of someone or something from captivity".  Iran was paid $400 million in cash contingent upon the release of four Americans.  That was $100 million in ransom per American hostage.

Obama stood at the podium with a deriding smirk on his face.  It said, "Why am I here explaining to the corn-pones the obvious when I could be playing golf in Martha's Vineyard?"  This wasn't a quid pro quo, this was a quid pro quid and a quo pro quo, a this for this and a that for that.  The $400 million was paid to settle an old weapons deal.  The hostages were released because Obama and the Iranians are getting along so well.

We corn-pones don't deal in the recondite - the very profound, but we know bullshit when we hear it.  Obama doesn't know bullshit when he steps in it.  For him, practice doesn't make perfect:  Shovel Ready Jobs, Obamacare, Russian Reset, Arab Spring, Crimea, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Iran Deal.  He can't even plant a Ficus tree without it dying.  On second thought, being wrong all the time is perfect.

The American public knows and America's enemies know that taking Americans hostage is now good business.

Now, for the other shoe to drop.  Obama has been caught in his deceit by saying the $400 million was absolutely not a ransom.  Next should be being caught lying about the $400 million had to be paid in cash.  That lie will come to light when we learn how the other $1.3 billion was paid to Iran.

The Obama administration and Iran agreed to a settlement of $1.7 billion for a weapons deal that dates back to the Shah of Iran.  (At least that is what Obama claims.)  That $1.7 billion has all been paid.  If the remaining $1.3 billion was paid in a wire transfer instead of cash, then Obama will have been caught again in a lie.  For the corn-pones, he will also have been caught laundering $400 million for Hezbollah and Hamas.

Will Obama care?  Probably not.  He's not running for a third term.  The "adolescent" rushed to and walked the Jersey shore carrying a balloon, or was that Chris Christie, after hurricane Sandy.  And that probably insured his victory.  Now, Louisiana is under water and he plays golf at Martha's Vineyard.

Life is good. For the oligarchs.