Abbottabad
Our president's gutsy call in Abbottabad renewed my faith in the man for whom I had voted. Laying back and watching the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot on the budget and the debt ceiling and social safety nets was an effective if boring strategy. I was looking for bold leadership, a stroke of genius, a monumental shift in the cosmos. Turns out I was looking in all the wrong places. Then, again, I can't really fault myself. The world's intelligence community had OBL in a cave in Afghanistan (I'm not sure why we're there any more... can we come home now?) so how can I feel foolish if I thought that domestic issues were where President Obama would make his stand. A digression : Have you noticed that this president doesn't have an acronym, like IKE or JFK? Carter, Bush, Clinton, Obama.... aren't headline writers tired of writing it all out all the time? Are we so puerile as a nation that BO in bold on the front page of the NYTim...