Brief thought about the Obama presser

It's nice having a president who doesn't require a series of scripted softballs to muddle through a press conference. After the past eight years, I'd almost forgotten what it was like to have an honest-to-goodness policy wonk and high-functioning scholar in the White House.

But I was a little more skeptical of this line, near the end: "I think over time people will respond to civility and rational argument."

President Obama is talking, of course, about a political party headed up by a guy who tried to argue - without a hint of guile - that teachers, cops, firefighters and postal workers don't really have jobs.

Eh. I suppose that's why he calls it the audacity of hope. Continue Reading »