1) "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little
blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."

So wrote Obama in one of his books. The political class knows about this and is cool with it. Middle America does not, and probably is not.

2) Keep up the exotic import motif. Obama's about as American as beef stroganoff.

3) Get to the bottom of this Nadhmi Auchi thing. Might be nothing, but you never know.