Let's be grateful that Barack Obama's contempt for poli tics as usual is a matter of public record. Otherwise, we might be saddled with a White House that offers federal jobs to potential candidates it wants to keep out of Democratic primaries, and does it in such a crude fashion that it skirts the law. We might witness the release of pertinent news about one of the cases on the Friday before a three-day weekend in one of the oldest, most predictable PR tricks in the book. We might have to rely on a sketchy document purporting to outline the...