What, me worry?

  That speech from the Oval Office was just great, wasn't it? So lifelike, eyes fixed on the teleprompter, shifting from line to line.
  The Incredible Shrinking President, over at Powerline:

Obama has developed a specialty of telling us, in balanced-sounding terms, what major players have done and what they done wrong. The players he has judged in these terms include the Arabs, the Israelis, the Africans, and the United States itself. I would argue that, assuming this is worth doing, it is possibly the only thing Obama does well as president.

But when the best Obama can say of George W. Bush, in a speech delivering the "summation" on Iraq, is that he is patriotic and supports the troops, Obama isn't even performing his "philosopher king" role well.

I'm no longer bothered by this sort of thing, having resigned myself long ago to the fact that Obama lacks the grace we all should hope for in a U.S. president. At this point, he is only hurting himself, as he looks smaller and smaller with each appearance.