THE NOTE: Obama Returns to the Trail in Weakened State. “It’s President Obama as a salesman-in-chief now — and he hopes that what Washington isn’t really buying still sells to an outside audience.”

UPDATE: Ann Althouse is liveblogging Obama’s presser. Excerpt: “He’s filibustering — using the boring professor mode.”

Plus this: “That’s the characterization of the opposition to the stimulus. Make those of us who are hesitant sound like some kind of disease. . . . Well, I respond to civility and rational argument, but I believe you just talked about me like I was some kind of disease!”

And Althouse voted for Obama.