Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, every week we get to read former White House speech writer Peggy Noonan’s perspectives on the country.  Today’s column is as good as ever. Noonan suggests that President Obama may already be giving up.  Reconciled to being a one term president.  Why not?  All the lifetime benefits are the same!

Like a true White House insider, she catches the almost imperceptible nuances of power, and the weight of power:

“On the stump this week in the Midwest, he should have been on fire with

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the joy of combat, he should have had them whooping and hollering with fresh material and funny lines. But even at his feistiest, he was wilted. Distracted. Sometimes he seems to be observing himself and his interactions as opposed to being himself and having interactions. His audiences wanted to show support, it was clear, that’s why they came. But there was something tentative in their response, as if they wanted to come through for the applause line but couldn’t figure out exactly where the applause line was. The president was dropping his g’s, always a terrible sign, a kind of bowing that assumes he speaks from a great height. He also started saying “folks” again. That too is a tell. It’s the word politicians who think they’re better and brighter than normal people use when they’re trying to make normal people think they’re normal.”

The complete article is waiting for you at the Wall Street Journal

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics, Sonja Eddings Brown by Sonja Eddings Brown, Aug 19, 2011