Okie(s) in Florida

1) “He was driving on a runway at Miami International Airport.”

Dave Barry on bad drivers in south Florida.

2) Obama is apparently grandstanding “in front of white people,” according to the Rev. Al Sharpton.

“During what a source described as a “heated” phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was disappointed with the Illinois senator’s words on Friday, when Obama said “resorting to violence to express displeasure” was “completely unacceptable and counterproductive.”‘

3) “Swimmers were again cleared from a New Smyrna Beach Monday after a third swimmer in three days was bitten by a shark and treated at a hospital.”

Sharks around Florida are apparently hungry this year.

4) “He has left on-the-ground conservatives – the local right-winger, the town intellectual reading Burke and Kirk, the old Reagan committeewoman – feeling undefended, unrepresented and alone.”

Peggy Noonan weighs in on Republicans and Democrats.