Cuff him.

Running the gauntlet through hostile crowds, and some wearing motorbike helmets to prevent injury.

They don't know what's coming, but they'll hear something off the cuff.

You wouldn't want to say something off the cuff that might be used against you.

And then everybody else would have to license this cuff or this sleeve because Joe Blow owns it.

It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on, so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.

What I will do is probably make a few off the cuff comments on the debate that has gone on so far, rather than read a written statement.

Conceived as a long overdue shift in resources and attention from wars and other urgent challenges in the Middle East toward the vast expanse of opportunities in the Asia Pacific region, America s much vaunted strategic pivot immediately ran into a gauntlet of unintended consequences (the handmaidens of inconsistent and poorly articulated policy).

Still, Obama has wisely thrown down the gauntlet, calling for a new era of government activism. He is right to do so, because many of today s crucial challenges saving the planet from our own excesses ensuring that technological advances benefit all members of society and building the new infrastructure that we need nationally and globally for a sustainable future demand collective solutions.