Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

Let’s hit Obama right where he’s most vulnerable: his caesura-laden speaking style. We have him answering a reporter’s question at length, something about an obscure policy he’s wonkishly expert on. Then, halfway through, he pauses and says “uh” while transitioning, and the audience is like, “What’s this loser politician doing, working methodically through an idea and trying to express it as lucidly and eloquently as possible in a manner befitting the course of actual human thought instead of rattling off a series of prefabricated sound bites designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator?” Hmm … but maybe this one is too edgy and subversive—not sure the public is ready for the scathing satire …