In Lee Cary's blog post Jeffery Immelt's Convenient Religion he notes: Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, said on Wednesday his generation of business leaders had succumbed to “meanness and greed” that had harmed the US economy and increased the gap between the rich and the poor…  It appears to me that like Lisa Lerer of Politico, Immelt is channeling his inner-Michelle Obama, who also believes America has succumbed to meanness and who counsels young Americans to not give in to greed. From a New Yorker profile last year of the now first lady: [Michelle] Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” And from a report of a campaign stop last year in Ohio: A former attorney with the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, [Michelle] Obama explains that she and her...(Read Full Post)