WELL, GIVEN THE CURRENT OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, IT’S AN UNDERSTANDABLE MISTAKE: Tom Friedman thinks the President is some sort of “glorified alderman.”

Plus: “I have to clean my apartment. There is a lot of work to do, and I don’t feel like doing it. And this is why I hope that Michael Bloomberg will reconsider running for president as an independent candidate, if only to get the winner of this year’s presidential election to help me clean my apartment. Which I really hate doing, by the way.”

More on Friedman from Dan Mitchell.