A couple of notes on the national scene……

Beautiful quote from Hillary Clinton following the news that she and her husband of made $109 million over the last eight years:

“Now don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against rich people,” she said. “As a matter of fact, my husband, much to my surprise and his, has made a lot of money since he left the White House, by doing what he loves doing most — talking to people. But we didn’t ask for George Bush’s tax cuts. We didn’t want them, and we didn’t need them.”

I also remember during the last election a neighbor of mine crying that ‘the rest of the world hates us!’ Mona Charen answers on today’s N&R editorial page:

Sen. Pat Leahy offered the standard version in his endorsement of Obama: “We need a president who can reintroduce America to the world and reintroduce America to ourselves.”

….Contra Pat Leahy, we do not need to reintroduce America to the world, we need to remember that the world’s moral focus can be strangely distorted.