YEAH, LET'S SEE THE FINE PRINT - AT 8:53 A.M. ET:  President Obama is emerging as the kind of leader who wants a deal, any deal, anything that he can sign - on health care, on disarmament, on warming, on anything.  Now, I suspect, we're seeing that again. 

He's gone to Copenhagen to be with the sky-is-falling crowd.  Last time he went to Copenhagen, it was to secure the Olympics for Chicago, and he came back empty-handed.  Doesn't want that to happen again:

COPENHAGEN (AP) -- A U.S. official says talks between President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have moved a ''step forward'' toward a possible climate deal.

Both leaders directed their negotiators to work on a possible deal after meeting for nearly an hour Friday at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.

The senior Obama administration official spoke on condition of anonymity to more freely characterize the talks.

COMMENT:  I'd look at any deal through a very powerful magnifying glass.  Obama wants to come back to Andrews Air Force Base and do a Neville, waving a signed paper at us.  I really can't believe that the Chinese, after all these years of stiffing us, will agree to anything beyond the cosmetic.

December 18, 2009