Tin Ear

It’s almost breathtaking how little connected the Obami seem to what Americans really believe about their best interests and their country’s. It’s hard to think of a single subject on which they’ve gotten it right: Stimulus, no; health care, no; Iran, no; Israel, no; North Korea, no; even outreach to the “Muslim world” has been a failure. But some of the most egregious missteps have been taken by White House Counsel Greg Craig-he of the Clinton administration’s horrific Elian Gonzales debacle-and now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, his head may roll.