…you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don’t mess around with Slim (aka The Prez).

One day before North Korea’s expected launch of a ballistic missile, President Obama said that the United States was prepared to respond to the threat with “the strongest possible adjectives.” In remarks to reporters at the White House, Mr. Obama said that North Korea should fear the “full force and might of the United States’ arsenal of adjectives” and called the missile test “reckless, reprehensible, objectionable, senseless, egregious and condemnable.” Standing at the President’s side, Vice President Joseph Biden weighed in with some tough adjectives of his own, branding North Korean President Kim Jong-Un “totally wack and illin’.” Later in the day, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called the North Korean nuclear test “supercilious and jejune,” leading some in diplomatic circles to worry that the U.S. might be running out of appropriate adjectives with which to craft its response. But President Obama attempted to calm those fears, saying that the United States was prepared to “scour the thesaurus” to come up with additional adjectives and was “prepared to use adverbs” if necessary.“ Let’s be clear: we are not taking adverbs off the table,” Mr. Obama said. “If the need arises, we will use them forcefully, aggressively, swiftly, overwhelmingly and commandingly.”

I say go for it! Tell Mr. Kim one more false step and we will throw the book at him.

You don’t want to mess with masters of the carefully crafted invective!

(This is recycled from a blog posted in 2009.  Some things never seem to change.  Credit goes to Andy Borowitz, but the original link no longer works)