Obama's Afghanistan Speech; "Let's Get Out There and Wrap This Thing Up Before the Next Election!"

Of the many honorifics, both official and otherwise, that have been bestowed on Barack Obama - president, lightworker, FDR II - the one with which he seems to feel truly ill at ease is Commander in Chief. Never was this level of discomfort more apparent than in his speech on Afghanistan tonight at West Point, quite possibly the weakest he has delivered on U.S. soil, on any subject, since his election (Chris Matthews, by the way, is already being criticized for a controversial comment he made this evening; however, based on the concept of typewriters and a room full of monkeys, Matthews, in his own, quirky way, actually spelled out something coherent: Obama chose to give this speech "in the enemy camp". I'm reasonably sure that's the way, in a political sense, the president does see it).

Anyhow, Stephen Green drunk is way smarter than the Smartest President Ever. And Charles Krauthammer, as usual, provides the most intellectually elegant analysis.