Or Just Get a Dog

Here's a letter to the New York Times:

Today on your Blogginghheads, Daniel Schultz and Mark Kleiman debate "whether President Obama is a great moral leader."  A much more interesting question – one likely to probe, not facile disagreements over political strategy, but genuinely interesting phenomena such as human irrationality – is "Why on earth does anyone look to the President of the United States for moral leadership?"

Barack Obama is a full-time politician.  Like every member of this...