[Superman]

Agreed, Jeff. Nevertheless, the reason many people believed this is because the President of the United States of America told us he was convinced of these facts. Absolutely convinced. Not guessing. Yeah, I don't like that guy anyway, but the fact remains that either he:

* lied, or

* was bamboozled and fibbed (about being certain)

Either way, he's incompetent.

One of my not even liberal but rather centrist friends the other day said:

"Americans must certainly be gullible if a Harvard-and-Yale educated son of a billionnaire oil baron who sat out the Viet Nam war in the National Guard can be sold to the public as a regular joe." I thought that was interesting.