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Poor Barack Hussein Obama. Fred Hiatt of The Washington Post thinks he has a "happiness deficit" because he hates his job. But we have another theory: Barack Obama isn't sad... he's afflicted by SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder. Hiatt—overlord of the worst opinion section in America—paints our president in such melancholy hues that you can imagine Hamlet slapping his back with a heartening "Buck up, kiddo." The problem, Hiatt writes, is that Obama "doesn't seem all that happy being president." Hiatt wonders with concern: "What part of it does he enjoy?" Obama bristles at "schmoozing with foreign leaders;" he only reluctantly...

The issue of Sen. Barack Obama’s Muslim past has surfaced again as his campaign steps back from its flat denial that he ever belonged to the Islamic faith. Earlier this year several media outlets reported that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Islamic school, when he lived in Indonesia. At the time, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs declared: “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.” The report about the radical madrasa turned out to be false. Now, in...