"Barack Obama's temperament is famously unflappable."

Remember that meme? "No drama Obama"? It help get him elected. I believed it. Now, look at him here:



"We're not moving quickly because we are trying to jam something down people's throats." Ugh! That makes me feel like he's trying to jam something down my throat!

AFTERTHOUGHT: Oh, but maybe the reason Obama seemed — last fall — to have such a measured, even temperament is that these things are relative.