Obama's 2012 relection campaign playlist.

Wilco and Arcade Fire. Earth, Wind and Fire. E.L.O. REO Speedwagon. I like this one by the little-known Portland band AgesandAges:

Obama has good taste. His favorite character on The Wire was Omar Little, a gay vigilante. And his Firebagger critics on the Left always argue he wasn't tough enough. He's liberal on cultural issues and I suspect the positions he takes as a candidate and President are sort of politically calculated regarding gays and women's rights.

Noam Scheiber on Obama's Worst Year.

It's a replay of FDR in 1937 with Obama mistakenly listening to the advice of Orszag, Daley, Plouffe, Emanuel, and Geithner/Bernanke. He should have listened to Romer and Summers.

(Via DeLong)