Obama's speech was both vague, underwhelming

Media critic Howard Kurtz passes along Team Obama's take/spin on President Obama's speech and its tepid reaction (among professional campaign watchers, at least): Obama and his advisers had taken great pains to avoid soaring rhetoricRereading the speech this morning, I find that (as Mark Twain once said about Wagner) it wasn't as bad as it sounded. It lacked poetry, but it managed a reasonable balance between acknowledging that the economy stinks, asserting thatAny good thing that happens (if it happens) will be because of Obama. This stuff won't convince anyone who

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