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Linda Douglass is leaving the media to take up a post in the Obama campaign. We wonder if she’ll even have to change health plans.

What keeps Barack Obama up at night? His fat and happy compatriots. “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say, ‘Okay,'” he said on the campaign trail. Instead we should “lead by example” on global warming. Obama was not committing the vulgar fallacy of assuming that the world economy is a zero-sum game, in which every gain is someone else’s loss. His analysis was not sophisticated enough for that. He bridles, and therefore assumes that the world bridles, at American prosperity, and believes that we will make ourselves better and others happier by doing without. Add to the emerging personalities of Obama-the racialist, the lefty, the naïf-the noodge.

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Linda Douglass is leaving the media to take up a post in the Obama campaign. We wonder if she’ll even have to change health plans.

What keeps Barack Obama up at night? His fat and happy compatriots. “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say, ‘Okay,'” he said on the campaign trail. Instead we should “lead by example” on global warming. Obama was not committing the vulgar fallacy of assuming that the world economy is a zero-sum game, in which every gain is someone else’s loss. His analysis was not sophisticated enough for that. He bridles, and therefore assumes that the world bridles, at American prosperity, and believes that we will make ourselves better and others happier by doing without. Add to the emerging personalities of Obama-the racialist, the lefty, the naïf-the noodge.