Running for Daylight (Obama, Not Brady)
He wanted to do what he saw as right and have the public and the pols come along simply because he said it was right.
But when the Potomac didn’t part when he was elected, he got grumpy and decided not to play the game.
In the end, the speech told us less about the state of the union than the state of Obama. The state of Obama is strong, if solitary.
He doesn’t mind splendid isolation.He really thinks it’s splendid. He’s free to revert to being the consummate outsider who doesn’t see himself in the context of a system.