"The Obama Diaries." by  Laura Ingraham. Threshhold Books. 2010.One of the few genuinely funny jokes about Reagan from Al Franken dealt with what the president's energy level was really like behind closed doors. Aired during the Iran Contra hearings, this skit showed a hyper Reagan working his staff to death and then reverting to doddering type when appearing before the cameras.For this joke to work with our current president, a writer would have to reverse it. Obama's public image-energetic, idealistic, even knee jerk-would have to be a façade for the private one, where the president is lazy, pragmatic, unattached to unions and other special interests, uncontrolled by Pelosi.But by all accounts, Obama is what he appears to be before cameras. Witness his ferocious lobbying and buy-offs during the Health care bill debate and you get that rarity: a politician who is what he says he is--maybe even more so; unlike the poll-driven Clintons, he is a true believer...(Read Full Post)