At both Make Something Happen and The Point, we talk a lot about the Carrot Model. For this reason, we couldn’t help sharing this bit from Maureen Dowd’s op-ed in today’s New York Times:

[Sen Obama's] meeting with Angela Merkel taught him a whole new expression.

“When we were talking about Iran,” he told me, “it turns out that carrots and sticks in German is sweetbread and whips, which I thought was a little more evocative.”

-Filed in The Point