The excellent Andrew Malcolm at IBD has an arresting piece today on a telling moment in an Obama speech speech in Ohio:
[h/t Ed Morrisey]
"Then, out of the blue Wednesday, came a tiny incident. A minute moment. There had been no signs of trouble, nothing to reveal that the Real Good Talker's real good talking had lost his touch or control of his sitting subjects. The rest of the speech continued normally. Many there probably didn't even notice.The president of the United States has said the next line so many times over these 1,080 days of his reign. He says it as a kind of democratic gesture, a compliment to a crowd of American citizens, a public obeisance that the most powerful man in the world is profoundly connected to them.Obama said, "You inspire me."
And you know how the members of that crowd in the most Democratic district of Ohio responded to that campaigning Democratic president's professed sincerity this time?
They laughed at him. More here.
[h/t Ed Morrisey]
