“You’ve got all the stereotypes that you’ve always had, there’s sunny people down south in places like Italy and Spain and Greece and they’re lazy. They’re yelling, they wave their hands, they don’t know how to do accounting, they take siestas. Then there’s all these rigid, Nordic and Germanic peoples working from 6 to 6 to pay for them....
'The American people aren't stupid," thundered President Obama yesterday in Miami, ridiculing Republicans who are blaming him for rising gasoline prices. Let's hope he's right, because not even Forrest Gump could believe the logic of what Mr. Obama is trying to sell. To wit, that a) gasoline prices are beyond his control, but b) to the extent...
