Last night, President Obama talked about raising the minimum wage, and invoked Gov. Romney in his speech.

Oh, how lovely it is to read about what our government officials are paying in taxes.

This New York Times Magazine feature on how Obama's early experience in the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Roseland in Chicago kindled his political ambitions for change, and made urban poverty a focus of his campaign is comprehensive and very interesting—mostly because urban poverty has virtually disappeared as a key issue for the president.

But later that night, the President went on Jimmy Fallon's late night show and slow jammed about why Congress needs to extend the 2007 College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which would keep interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans at 3.4 percent, and I thought, okay, yeah, that's cool.