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Angry Obama?
Obama didn't seem angry to me. Might you be projecting what you imagine he must have been feeling? Compare his style to his Iowa victory speech, and it's much the same.
He did throw, I suppose, a few elbows -- such as his comment about a campaign in which you're not supposed to acknowledge a "Republican idea." But there's another explanation besides throwing an elbow, and that's that he had a national stage and took the opportunity to say to all who were listening that he did not praise or admire Reagan's ideas. He also provided all his supporters with a simple, to the point response to anyone who says, "Yeah, but he praised the GOP as the party of ideas!" And he did that all in -- what -- ten words?
Pretty smart campaigning if you ask me.