The art of Conversation....

Abe Greenwald:

"Yet for Barack Obama, there is no issue – be it as insignificant as a localized grievance or as towering as nuclear war – that cannot be addressed with a pantomime summit. This is perfectly in keeping with a presidency characterized by imitation health-care reform, counterfeit “post-racialism,” and so on. It’s as if Obama is, in fact, invested with the power of his faux-presidential campaign seal and not the real thing."
Instead of creating intelligent policy, Obama seeks to solve problems by giving speeches and then holding events in celebration of his words