Tom Friedman Says China Is

Governing Involves Choosing And Making Choices Between Competing Goods.

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.

By This Point, It Was Clear She Wasn't Interested In Continuing The Relationship. What Publication On Earth Would Continue A Relationship With A Writer Who Would Refuse To Discuss Her Work With Her Editors? What Publication Would Continue To Publish A Writer Who Attacked It On Tv? What Publication Would Continue To Publish A Writer Who Lied About It - On Tv And To A Washington Post Reporter? ... It's True: Ann Is Fearless, In Person And In Her Writing. But Fearlessness Isn't An Excuse For Crappy Writing Or Crappier Behavior.

Seriously, In 2008 We Elected A Community Organizer, State Senator, College Instructor First Term Senator Over A Guy Who Spent Five Years In A Vietnamese Prison. And Now He's Lecturing Us About How America's Gone "soft"? Really?

Historians Write Favorably, You Know, For Example, About Stalin Because He Was Doing Big Things.