[quidnunc]

It was a workmanlike speech.

It's too early to start revving up the base and going after the undecideds.

People can only keep a high emotional pitch for a limited time, and the time to start serious speechifying will be after the Olympics.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agonized over whether to use the phrase "fell flat." I'm inclined to agree with Q that the speech was "workmanlike." But it could and should have been far better.

And I stick by my conclusion that a heavy dose of history was entirely appropriate before the War College community, and to force the press -- some of it, anyway -- to DO THEIR D*MNED HOMEWORK.

John / Billybob