Obama Hearts Friedman

"The president is a known fan of Friedman, who opened a recent column with a joke he told Obama. The reader-in-chief not only referenced the columnist’s latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded during the campaign, but was then spotted reading it during his Martha’s Vineyard vacation – inspiring the Daily Beast to take a look at just why he’d been reading the same book for so long." (thanks Electronic Ali)