Saw it...the President sounded/looked discouraged, to say the least...he's mad.
"Saw it...the President sounded/looked discouraged, to say the least...he's mad."
Of course he is -- this SHOULD have been the Media's finest hour, and instead, they've been carping, whining, and demanding the impossible.
I'm sorry to say that this has proved my "Law of the Media:" "There is no situation so bad that the Media won't do everything in their power to make it worse."