It's customary to roll out the red carpet when a head of state visits a foreign country. But leave it to the inscrutable Chinese. When President Obama arrived in China for the G20 summit, the stairs weren't ready for him to walk out so he had to exit Air Force One via a back door.

What does it take to become a laughing stock? Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine is on his way if he keeps defending Hillary Clinton's refusal to hold a press conference for more than 274 days. "You see Hillary take questions from reporters every day. She talks to the press everywhere she goes," he told CBS. When that clip was played during a later appearance on CNN, a panel of reporters burst out laughing.

On this Labor Day, government employees in the U.S. outnumber manufacturing employees by almost 10 million. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports federal, state and local government employed 22,213,000 in August, while the manufacturing sector employed 12,281,000. That's disturbing.