Keeping up with trends

rickm debuted below with Megan's tone deaf initial take on Obama's extraordinary speech, but she's not done with the topic. Having decided to completely misrepresent the content of the speech because he said something she disagreed with, Megan kinda missed the forest for the trees. Even Pat Buchanan thought it was an amazing speech. We have to see how it plays with the people, but it looks like Obama has turned a bad situation into a net win. About the only people who agreed with Megan's first take were freepers. The media, at least, is back in love with Obama, so Megan was really out on a limb with her take on his speech.
And so....

I should say, now that I've cooled off a little, that Obama's speech was brilliant. This was the speech we've been waiting for him to give: a thoughtful, brutally honest, and deeply respectful treatment of a major issue. This was the best political speech I've ever heard a politician deliver--admittedly a low bar. I would be happy to have that in the White House.

Earlier:

And then he has to go and make possibly the stupidest remark in this entire campaign--or at least, Best in Class (you can't really expect him to outdo a television anchor.) "This time we need to talk about the fact that the real problem is not that someone who doesn't look like you will take your job, it's that the corporation you work for will ship it overseas for nothing more than a profit."

This is jaw-droppingly, head-shakingly, soul-cringingly, "Oh my God, maw, I think my eardrum just exploded" stupid.

This is jaw-droppingly, head-shakingly, soul-cringingly, "Oh my God, maw, I think my eardrum just exploded" stupid.
You can actually see Megan physically attempting to cover her pale white ass with the later post. "Oops, the whole media thinks it was a brilliant, perhaps even transcendent, moment, better jump back on the bandwagon." I'm surprised she didn't quote Yglesias or Ezra on the topic to mend fences.
I bet Megan called herself a Mets fan in the late 80s. Bandwagoneer.