No one had.
Yet now he's the new hero for the knee-jerk crowd.
Latimer loves Obama....as he said in the WP recently:
Obama is smarter than this. On the campaign trail, his speeches, in clear, coherent English...... Even some of us in the Bush White House studied Obamas speeches and marveled at their grace.
Dana Perino has already discounted his remarks. I think I’d listen to her first.