Mr. Coal

OK, no more "benefit of the doubt." Wall Street bailouts get complicated, perhaps it's not reasonable to expect people to understand them. Give health insurers escape hatches from a national program, who'll even notice? Mountaintop removal for coal mining, that's a different story. The world tends to automatically classify people into two groups: those who wish to follow a lofty purpose in life, however imperfectly, and those who grub around in the dirt for advantage. At this point I really don't care what Mr. Obama's speeches sound like: his actions speak louder than his words.