London’s Daily Telegraph dubs Matt Drudge the “world’s most powerful journalist” in yet another testament to how the internet is sweeping the old world away.

Michelle Obama, who used to work for one of the most prestigious law firms in America, told a group of young supporters at a local day-care center they should avoid the professions and “corporate America” and instead pursue careers as social workers and so forth.

More leftist “do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do” of course, but it rings a little hollow from the well-heeled Mrs. Obama, who proceeded to moan and cry for a bit about how much she has to spend on piano and dance lessons for her two children, an amount equivalent to almost 1/3 of the median household income of the town in which she was speaking.

Barack Obama could not be where he is today if he’d followed Michelle’s advice to these young women, who live in a town where only 12.2% of adults have a college degree and 20% are high school dropouts. But this is the left’s line, from Chicago to Cambodia to Chelyabinsk: the proletariat should “serve the needs of society”, while the elites should organize everyone for the greater good.

Has it ever occurred to you that socialism is just the old aristocracy, dressed up for a politically correct age?

Here’s a really insightful piece — a three-page essay for the leftist Time magazine — by George Bush’s most unlikely fan, Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof. Geldof and pal Bono are among the world’s most dedicated activists in the cause of relieving African suffering, and both take the view that George W. Bush has done more for Africa than anyone else alive.

Which, of course is true; although, as Geldof points out, you (tragically) aren’t likely to know it.

Geldof’s rather strong differences with Bush come through loud and clear in the essay, which only serves to highlight all the more the degree of his admiration for the President, the transformative nature of what the Administration has done in Africa, and the degree to which this foreigner is willing to work “across the aisle” in an important cause when his American co-partisans are not. Demonizing your opponents has become the first resort of the American left. It would appear Bob Geldof didn’t get the memo.