Are You A Producer Or A Looter?

Tom Friedman Says China Is So Awesome They Make Kosher Pigs.

But If The Choice Is A Cool President And 8 Or 10 Percent Unemployment In A Declining Economy And A Country That Seems To Be Going In The Wrong Direction And Structural Unemployment For Young People At 50 Percent, I'd Rather Have A Dorky President Who Fixed Those Problems.

But There's A Fourth Interpretation: Obama Can't Leave His Comfort Zone. No President Since Woodrow Wilson Has Been As Enamored Of Abstract Ideas Or More Sure That Disagreement With Him Is Proof Of Ignorance, Bad Faith Or Dogmatism. As A Candidate, He Insisted His Real Opponent Was 'cynicism,' And In His Address Last Week, He Returned To This Trite Formulation, Insisting Again He Was Bravely Battling The Cynics.

Keep Hope Alive, Particularly If Hope Is The Name Of A Very Cute Puppy And Not Some Ill-defined Abstraction That Is In Fact Code For Big Government.

Tip To All British Tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I Repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.