Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
Eric AltermanStylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.
Eric AltermanVeteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
Eric Alterman