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For a pull-no-punches frontrunner to take the GOP field. Current roster? Not promising. It’s not going to work if Romsman or Huntney is the nominee. Bachmann and Palin are too polarizing. Our personal favorite is Pawlenty, but he’s got to sharpen up. His interview with Chris Wallace was dismal. Herman Cain is an interesting guy, but not up to speed on foreign policy, especially the Middle East.

Thankfully there is a year  for someone to decide to run a hard-hitting campaign and get up to speed. Here’s another idea: quit subjecting the American people to two YEARS of campaigning, get your act together BEFORE you come out and let us have it in the six months prior to the election. If you’re what the country needs, we’ll elect you. We’ve done it before!

“In fact, four of the top ten richest counties in the nation are concentrated in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and a fifth, Howard County, Md., is equidistant between Washington and Baltimore.”

As an aside, ABC News reprints this Forbes article with attributions so minor the casual reader might mistake it for original content.

Holes in the Chinese facade or perception? Infrastructure defects and damage to the ecology? Has anyone tried to breathe in Shanghai lately? Macro-growth, but micro-issues like food and energy prices are still problems. How do we really know? Has it all just been a mirage?

. . . you wear a white t-shirt to school?? Seriously? A white t-shirt.

AP Poll: Obama Approval at 60%

Note: the above link doesn’t include a link to the sampling, which was 46% Democratic, 29% Republican and 4% Independent. The article states: The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted May 5-9 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,001 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. The laughtrack was disabled as well.

Mara Liasson regularly spars with the likes of Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer on Fox News panels.  Even though we happen to agree more with Bill and Charles, we’re usually impressed with Mara.  She argues her perspective with grace and eloquence, as one might expect others on the left side of the spectrum to do more frequently.

(Note to Jacob Weisberg:  Titling a column “Why Fox News is Un-American” is probably not going to staunch the hemorrhaging at Newsweak Newsweek, just sayin’.  A review here puts the smackdown on Weisberg:  “Commentator Jacob Weisberg assumes that Fox’s rightward tilt results from a disingenuous desire to boost ratings, when it more likely springs from a philosophical perspective that is so foreign to Weisberg that he takes refuge in cynicism.”)

Recently, Mara was under some pressure from the higher ups at NPR to “reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said.”  Politico’s report on the matter cites an anonymous source as saying the White House’s recent campaign against Fox News as prompting the request.  Liasson declined.

Of course, now the little tiff between the WH and FNC is pretty much over, although I’m sure you won’t see Chris Wallace (who called the West Wing a bunch of “crybabies”) and Robert Gibbs having a beer together anytime soon.

” ‘NPR has its own issues in trying to convince people that, ‘Look, we’re down the middle,’ the source said.” You bet they do. Asking someone not to appear on Fox is just one of them.  Good on you, Mara, for telling the prigs at NPR where they can stuff it – in the nicest possible way, of course.

. . . so, invite a bunch of guys over and  sit around and talk about jobs.  Honestly, what is the big deal?  Talking about stuff is what this President does.  After lunch, there will be advanced-level coursework in Smoke and Mirrors.

On the bow to the Japanese Emperor:  “When the president heard that some people had complained, I’d characterize his reaction as: The notion that the United States is somehow humbling or humiliating itself by showing respect for a local custom, when it is transparently the most powerful country in the world, leaves me speechless.”