I STILL PLAN TO DO ALL THE STUFF I'M NOT DOING...ONCE IT GETS EASY:

Nothing new in Obama's speech (JAMES CARAFANO, 5/22/09, Politico)

You would think it would be hard to argue that President Barack Obama’s Notre Dame speech and his speech at the National Archives on combating terrorism were the same speech.

But it’s not. Both, the more you examine them, really said nothing. And both were given for the same reason — to patch holes in the president’s seemingly impenetrable force field of popularity. [...]

In the National Archives speech, Obama could have been honest and said, “Look, we are a band of brothers with the last administration, struggling to find the best way to keep us both free and safe.” But he didn’t. Instead he whined, basically saying: “Look at the mess they left me. Feel for me, people.”

It is undoubtedly true, but nonetheless grating, that the President continually mentions how much harder it is to govern than he thought it would be.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 22, 2009 5:55 AM