I didn't read anything past, "Shes back on the trail, with the tumbling hair and tumbling thoughts."
So I'm afraid I will of little help to you in figuring it out.
Go ahead and read it. She summed things so far up this way:
“If we could see a Reduced Shakespeare summary of Obamas presidency so far, it would read:
Dither, dither, speech. Foreign trip, bow, reassure. Seminar, summit. Shoot a jump shot with the guys, throw out the first pitch in mom jeans. Compromise, concede, close the deal. Dither, dither, water down, news conference.”
Finally, something I agree with!