"I swear man. Every time. Like, every single time. They pile on they write him off and then he does his thing and gives a great speech that hits the points just about right. They said he was throwing the public option overboard, then he put 7 paragraphs of it in the speech. They said he was going to give his liberal base the cold shoulder, then he smacked the GOP around. They said he wasn’t emotional enough, then talked about Ted Kennedy, average Americans and the moral urgency of health care reform. Damn you Barack Obama for bringing honor back to the presidency." —Oliver Willis
And he tricked the Republicans into not applauding for fiscal responsibility. Brilliant.