The Most Equal Comrade jumps the ultimate shark - as the world's fuse shortens to nada

It is a moment during which Russian tanks, missile systems and armored vehicles continue to roll into Ukraine, even as participants at a peace-agreement conference claim they got to yes, in which the US embassy in Yemen is closed, CIA operatives are gone and Marines turned in their weapons to "authorities" before boarding commercial flights out, in which the Iraqi city of al-Bagdhadi is seized by ISISand 300 US Marines are in jeopardy.

And it is a moment when the "president" of the "United States of America" chooses to make a selfie-stick video for Buzzfeed.

Giving this guy his own selfie stick is like giving Charlie Sheen his own meth lab.

WaPo wryly borrows BuzzFeed’s own format for its headline on this: “Which image of Obama mugging for BuzzFeed’s cameras diminshes the presidency the most, ranked.” That’s cute, but c’mon. This “diminishes the presidency” to the same degree that Brian Williams’s lies diminish the media’s credibility. All they’re doing in both cases is bombing the rubble. And like Williams’s lying, it’s self-interested: The deadline for enrolling in ObamaCare this year is just three days away. BuzzFeed is Obama’s pipeline to young, healthy twentysomethings whose precious premiums the insurance industry needs to keep O’s boondoggle afloat. Not coincidentally, his “Between Two Ferns” interview with Zach Galifianakis last year for “Funny or Die” also came just before the enrollment deadline. Jokey viral videos are now evidently the go-to White House strategy for grabbing the attention of young adults in a pinch. Makes me wonder what sort of YouTube extravaganza he has planned for next February, his last before leaving office. It’s … probably going to involve the Kardashians, isn’t it?

Are you a young American?  Does this dog vomit reach you and make you want to sign up for socialist health care?

It makes me want to find an actual US president to consider the current juncture of our world with appropriate urgency and gravity.

It makes me want to hurl.  This is real scary.