In the wake of his miserable debate performance last night, what does Obama do now?  I mean, besides smoking a whole pack of cigarettes when he got back to his Denver hotel suite. One option would be to actually prepare for the next debate, instead of spending 3 days at a luxury resort and taking sightseeing trips to Hoover Dam. But does Obama know how to buckle down and really work? He already complained that debate prep was no fun ("a drag"), and that level of sacrifice of fun proved to be wholly inadequate. We know that despite being president of the Harvard Law Review, he never wrote a signed scholarly article for that journal, an unprecedented (to use his favorite word) dereliction of duty for one holding that office. We know that despite teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, he never published a scholarly article, or even participated in the intellectual life of the faculty. So there is good reason to suspect that Obama has never in his life had to buckle down...(Read Full Post)