Obama’s Vanity

Here’s President Obama, at a fundraiser last night in Los Angeles: “[T]he American people, beneath all the pain and hurt and frustration … still want to believe that that change is possible, and there’s still that hope there. … Mario Cuomo once said that campaigning is poetry and governance is prose. … [W]e’ve been slogging through ‘prose’ for the last three years, and sometimes that gets people discouraged. Because people, they like the poetry.”

“[P]eople, they like the poetry.” Well, yes, I, along with many of my fellow “people,” do like poetry. Not so much the speeches of Barack Obama, which he seems to consider poetry. But actual poetry, written by real poets.