President Obama:

I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I sat down for a round of interviews. Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy. I was asked several times about had I read Sarah Palin’s book. (Laughter.) True. But it’s an indication of how our political debate doesn’t match up with what we need to do and where we need to go.

Of course, Fox News’s Garrett asked about both the jobs bill Obama has proposed and the South Korean trade agreement. NBC’s Chuck Todd asked about the jobs summit and Chinese relations on human rights; perhaps the president simply chooses not to remember them.

Remember in 2007 and 2008, when all of Obama’s fans kept telling us about how great and cool and calm Obama’s temperament was? And how tough he was, and how under no circumstances would he turn into an insufferable self-pitying whiner eleven months into the job?