Opinions

President Barack Obama was wrong to say at the Asia-Pacific economic summit that America has gotten “lazy” in the past few decades at attracting foreign investment.

What he should have said, in light of his administration’s handling of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, is that America has become quite adept at blocking it. To delay the project for more than three years and then, after giving every indication that it would go through, announce the ultimate decision will be kicked past the 2012 election takes hard work and brio. [Full Story »] 

A successful presidential candidate taps into the public mood. Newt Gingrich must be hoping the public is bristling with irritation and high dudgeon.

At the Republican debate on the economy, Gingrich eyed CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo the way Franklin Roosevelt might have looked at Adm. Yamamoto had the Japanese commander been selected to moderate a foreign-policy debate shortly after Pearl Harbor. A lawyer argues the law when he doesn’t have the facts on his side, and vice versa; Gingrich litigates the debate question even when he has a perfectly suitable answer. [Full Story »]