Trailing Spouse: Obama edition

Blaine has been quite busy in the past week covering President Obama's visits to Japan and, today, to South Korea.

Here are some of his stories, often with WashPost White House correspondent Anne Kornblut:

Hiroshima: The dreaded invitation
Obama declines offer to visit the bombed city on his first trip to East Asia

In Japan, Obama stresses Asia's role in U.S. economy

Obama, Japanese premier at odds over air station negotiations

Obama to discuss vexing N. Korean behavior with S. Korean leader

In Seoul, Obama will confront trade and security issues

The flip side

In reading about the economic stimulus package passed today by U.S. House Democrats, I came across two editorials written in newspapers that seem to exist on different planets.

Here's the Wall St. Journal's "A 40-Year Wish List." Which criticizes the Obama Administration's "spending bonanza" on mass transit, childcare, arts, global warming, Medicaid, unemployment, food stamps and the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for "people who don't pay income tax"

And here's the New York Times' "The Stimulus Advances." Which praises the Obama Administration's "carefully" calculated spending on mass transit, childcare, Medicaid, unemployment, food stamps and the "good tax policy" of the EITC.

The contrast is rather amusing.