This article is excellent.The problem with the president's speech, and it is a very, very big problem, is that to be believed it would require a huge amount of trust in the president. The sort of trust that could only have been earned by a fair accounting of the critics' many and serious objections.And that accounting was exactly what wasn't in the president's speech.
The speech did nothing to explain, just a big fat “Trust me, I am Barack Obama!”
Anyone who doesn't earn trust but demands that you trust him is a con artist.
Fantastic point!!!