Today’s Headlines
Stuff in teh nooz: President Obama actually thinks before making decisions. The Right calls this a sign of weakness, of course. Rumors say Lou Dobbs is planning to run for President. That’s funny enough, but here’s the punch line: He’s reaching out to Latino voters.

Obama’s China Trip Failed Everywhere But China
A follow up to “How the Liberal Media Behaves With Abject Obsequiousness to Barack Obama” — now some fellow at Spiegel is jumping into the “Obama’s China trip a failure” pool. Apparently Chris Matthews (and we know how sterling his judgment is) is calling Obama “Carteresque,” meaning weak. Conventional wisdom is saying that Obama is a sock who doesn’t now how to behave around those tough Chinese. However, people who actua

Some Things Are Certain
After any Democratic Party legislative accomplishment, even an accomplishment that’s not really an accomplishment yet, such as last night’s Senate vote, there are some reactions you can count on. Someone on the Right will explain why the accomplishment was not, in fact, an accomplishment, but a failure. Or a sign of weakness. Or a portent of failures to come. Someone on the Left will explain

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Reid haz them.

How the Liberal Media Behaves With Abject Obsequiousness to Barack Obama
By James Fallows, who lived and worked in China and Japan for many years: “Barack Obama’s recent swing through Asia was a relative success, and certainly nothing like the disaster that most U.S. coverage implied.” And in a more recent post, Fallows says the press corps is guilty of distorting reality by “compressing every complex issue into the narrative of the DC-based ‘horse race.’” Fallows quoted