Never mind. Obama’s speech is likely to be soaring.

Those days are over. No more ladies to be photographed swooning (were they actors provided by AFTRA?), no more rock star. The swoonable speeches were backlighted by press-enhanced hatred of the Bush admin, coupled by a deluded willingness to believe in hope and change, and always followed by press-enhanced rave reviews DESPITE their lack of content.

Now that there’s a ten-month track record of this indecisive and cynical boy wonder, the factors that led the cheerleaders to believe they’d just heard the best speech since the Gettysburg Address have faded enough that we can all see the content, in addition to the form, of the speeches. The sneering backhands demonizing strawman opponents, the persistent incomprehension of world politics, which are not the same as using Tides Foundation funds to purchase rentamobs in Chicago.