Obama's Fulfillment of Low Expectations


Does he really surround himself with so many people with no imagination, with no ability to motivate and energize? Sputnik? That's what we aspire to? And we're really going to put a Russian word on our moment?

Yes, I understand the Sputnik reference but could it not have been acknowledged more cleverly? Would it have been so difficult to send a more prideful American message? This generation's Mercury moment? Gemini moment? Apollo moment? If SOTUs are about imagery and broad themes, American exceptionalism couldn't have been leveraged?

I wonder if the President's handlers are going to make replicas of the Russian satellite available for every American household so we can put them in our kitchens and dens and be reminded of our moment on a daily basis.