Please don't say WMD unless you have airtight proof that he knew they did not have them.

With Clinton and Bush you at least knew where they stood on issues. You might want to fact check them once the start trying to sell their ideas but you at least had a pretty good idea what they were selling. I think Obama's basic problem is not that he is so smart he can't talk down to the rest of us but that he is much more liberal then he wants to let on and because of that he is always out of his element. He can't just go with his instincts because he misrepresented what those instincts were. That is why he doesn't speak without a teleprompter. That only helps so much since most of his advisors are as liberal and out of touch with the rest of the country as he is. Blind leading the blind.

I don’t believe Obama needed to respond to this issue at all. If the city was behaving improperly it would have made sense for him to speak out. I think Obama may have sipped the kool-aid a bit and is buying into the idea that the real problem is conservative talk radio and Fox News not simply that the rest of country doesn’t agree him. He doesn’t need to react to at all to most of this stuff. I would say he is getting drawn off message but beyond “it is all Bush’s fault” I am not sure what his message even is.