You remember when John Kerry talked about “passing the global test”? That was in the ’04 presidential debates. Well, if there’s one president who passes the global test — it’s Obama. And when you’re given the Nobel Peace Prize, you’re receiving an A-plus, for sure. This is basically the point of our editorial (here).

George W. Bush did not pass the global test (which is often the Democratic test, as we could see in the words of their ’04 nominee). Neither did Reagan. That does not mean those men were right or wrong — it’s just that they were bad global-test-takers. They themselves were more interested in other tests.

Here is a cheeky question from our editorial: “Whose approval would President Obama rather have: that of the Nobel Committee or that of the Rotary Club in Butte?” That may sound Agnewesque, but it touches on something important — fundamental, even.

Sometimes you can please both Norwegian leftists and the boys in Butte. Sometimes you can’t. Ronald Reagan once spoke of “a time for choosing.”

P.S. Forgive me if someone’s already made the “global test” point. The blogosphere, and the universe, are so vast, it’s hard to keep track, even if you want to.