JAMES TARANTO: Tears of a Clown: Obama’s torpor sends Andrew Sullivan into a heartbroken rage. “Obama is a cipher with one great political talent: the ability to capture the imagination of people like Andrew Sullivan, to persuade them that he is what they wish him to be. Sullivan’s particular fantasy–and we are not making this up–is that Obama is the Road Runner from the old Warner Bros. cartoons, endlessly outwitting his opponents. Well, meep meep, Andrew.”