Michael Kinsley: "No Major Terrorism Episodes"

Michael Kinsley reports from very, very deep inside the mainstream media cocoon.

He hasn't gotten us into any wars, and there have been no major terrorism episodes on his watch. That seems like a pretty good record.

True, Obama added $4 trillion to the national debt. But that was a conscious exercise in Keynesian demand stimulation, not a careless waste of taxpayer dollars. You can argue that it was a mistake. But a smaller deficit — i.e., a smaller stimulus — hardly would have created more jobs.

That wasn't terrorism in Benghazi, just "bumps in the road."