Obama, Biden, and Kerry keep talking

Yesterday President Obama apparently said that Bashar al-Assad's "days were numbered"  (Cue in soundtrack from a Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood western).  It seems that almost daily our leaders talk off the cuff in ways that seem lazy.  Are they just talking in cliches for an American audience.   These are difficult days broadly and the outcomes in various situations, with history as a guide, are always unpredictable.  Obama must fear that he could look too serious, but he could at least give it a try.

He's not going rogue with his language, he's going George Bush.