Nick Kristof delivers his best Peggy Noonan impression, Mr. Obama, It's Time For Some Poetry. What a piece of hagiolatry.

If Obama were as great as you think he is, Nick, he wouldn't need your advice, and this economy wouldn't be where it is right now. He would have put off taking advantage of the crisis by passing huge additions to the national debt, and made his first move the extension of the Bush tax cuts. We'd be coming out of the weeds by now, without any spending increases.

I wonder how Kristof forgot about the shovel ready jobs that never existed, the promised millions of new jobs that are now referred to as jobs that he "saved."