Obama Should Start Sweating the Small Stuff

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May 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama likes doingthe big things. This is, after all, the man who claimed that hisvictorious 2008 campaign was “the moment when the rise of theoceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

He was roundly (and rightly) derided for the grandiosity ofthat statement. But it’s true that he has done some big thingswell: speeches, health-care reform, even bipartisan gestures, asRepublican Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey can attest.