Most of the electorate still isn’t paying attention, so what we are seeing now is just sparring. Any knockout blow will have to come later, quite likely around the time of the debates.

It’s quite likely Obama’s team will think he won the crucial encounter, at the very moment that the bulk of the electorate concludes that he is too slick to be trusted.

Obama is a true heir to ‘Slick Willie’, except that he frequently feels a compulsion to display a contempt for his audience. Leftists don’t notice this because they share the underlying attitude.