MAGAZINE: "After the Great Recession: An interview with President Obama," by David Leonhardt, New York Times, 3 May 2009.

I dare anybody to read this and not be impressed with the man's intelligence.

I know that every time I compliment Obama so, some suspect my "brown nosing" is designed to win me some job.

Hilariously untrue, I can only laugh in reply.

I simply could not afford to work for the government right now. The opportunity costs alone mandate I stay with Steve and Enterra for years to come, because we're just beginning to scratch the lucrative surface of Development-in-a-Box‚Ñ¢, which to me is more important in shrinking the Gap than anything I could possibly do in government.

I compliment the man so because I'm just so G.D. relieved.