WHAT BARACK OBAMA IS READING: “Meanwhile, let’s summarize: here we have the current frontrunner (barely) to be the 44th president of the United States (the son of a Kenyan man and an American woman, named Barack Obama), reading the top-selling current events book of the season (by an immigrant from Mumbai named Fareed Zakaria) called The Post-American World.” Kind of an odd picture, though — looks a little too GQ for a politician, more like a studio exec or something. I think it’s the sunglasses. Meanwhile, Obama ought to give this a read on his next flight.

UPDATE: Related item here: “In his campaign, Obama plays on his supposed resemblance to JFK, and his supporters respond to it. But it’s not so good to emulate the flaws of the man. See whether any of this sounds familiar.”