The man in absolutely unflappable. It’s like his superpower is the ability to remain absolutely dead calm even in the face of outrageous, um, outrage.
I started posting Obama’s weekly addresses because I thought they were an interesting step into the Internet age for communication between our leaders and our populace. I saw them as something like Roosevelt’s fireside chats (which went out over the radio, of course). But I wonder if those who even bother to watch these get anything at all out of them. This one in particular reminds me of that Monty Python sketch — in The Meaning of Life, I think — about the teacher lecturing his teenage students on sex, complete with a demonstration, and it’s so dull that the kids are goofing off or staring out the window: just not paying attention at all.
