Love him or hate, pretty much everybody who paid attention to his Democratic National Convention speech Thursday night agrees: President Obama did not lay out a clear agenda for his second term.

True, he did recently tell Time magazine that he expects Republican opposition to “pop” like a “blister” if he wins re-election. But as conservative commentator Ramesh Ponnuru has noted, and liberal commentators Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein have agreed, that isn’t likely to happen.