Apropos Tikkun's Michael Lerner (Hillary's one-time guru):

What happened in Obama's first year is that most of those who had allowed themselves to hope began to appear to themselves and others as naïve fools, and the humiliation that they experienced will take some years and psychologically or spiritually sophisticated interventions...

Wow. Who knew voting for Obama would be so traumatic for his supporters? Maybe the President could put a line item in the next stimulus package to help provide these crucial "psychologically or spiritually sophisticated interventions." Counseling and sweat lodges on the house!

But, that aside: What is with naïve? We have all these wonderful English words which, although entirely confusing in their relationship of spelling to pronunciation, at least can be written with the 26 letters in our alphabet. And along comes naïve, with its pretentious, doubly-dotted "i"; requiring a special keyboard (or a cut 'n' paste off someone else's website, or a confusing HTML entity code) to produce it.

Go ahead, blame the French. They loaned it to us.