I almost teared up. Here was the President of the United States actually talking intelligently and in depth about the substance of policy issues. It's been a long time

I was NOT bored. I was actually engaged the whole time in listening to a thoughtful, intelligent president with a full grasp of the issues, explaining things clearly and actually answering the questions he was asked.

I was and am thrilled.

I thought he inspired confidence, projected leadership, registered with people, and was absolutely honest and straightforward.

Oh, this is so wonderful. A president who knows how to lead the nation.

I'm terribly, terribly sorry that anybody had to sit down and think deeply about the issues and think deeply about what the president said about the issues and if his plans would actually work. So much thinking.

What this country really needs is journalistic speedball to get over it. On credit, of course.

Nearly all I heard -- and read -- tonight from political pundits were complaints about the length of Obama's answers.

Newsflash, people: Americans are GRATEFUL for a president who treats them like grownups.

Maybe we appreciate a president who sees himself as The Explainer, as well as Decider.

We have serious problems. Can we all try to be a little more serious? Please?

two in a row for Alex.....whatever happened to the old saying, if you don't have anything intelligent to say, shut the f#*@ up! Obama was so good in so many ways. The country has a president with a brain and a heart......and Salon seems to have a writer with only one body part, necessary to rid one of waste. What is the matter with you!!!

Funny you should say that. I just did a post the other day at The Confluence documenting astroturfed reactions to Obama's "Greatest Speech on Race EVAH" last year and how two different commenters just a few minutes apart claimed to have been moved to tears just reading a transcript of the speech.

Don't you guys ever use any original stuff?

My personal eyebrow-raising moment came after hearing this:

"I think that over time people respond to -- to civility and rational argument."

When was the last time we heard the word civility in any vicinity of the White House, from the mouths of the press corps, or at a news conference?

More importantly, when are the partisans going to realize that their current tactics amount to waging a Civil War?

Maybe. But I'm a nerd, and I love having a president that not only speaks in complete sentences, he speaks in complete paragraphs. And not the normal "ipso lorem" gibberish of politicians, but actual lucid thoughts.

When we have a president who can actually give substantive answers in clear, concise language, you consider that boring?

It's policy, not "Dancing with the Stars". It's not supposed to be "entertaining."

This is like complaining that spinach doesn't taste as good as ice cream.

Not bad for a beginner. Complete sentences delivered in a lucid format . Imagine that. Too bad he backed-off on the torturers question from that Huffington Post reporter. These war criminals deserve much much more than a "No one is above the law" pittance of a response. They tortured people for Christ's sake. Tortured! He needs to address these war criminal sooner than later when it will be viewed more and more like a "get even" response from the obstructionists who will continue to bedevil this articulate human lest he continue to expose their sophomoric illiteracy. The longer he and his wait to go after them the harder it will be politically to nail them. Nonetheless, let the games begin and investigations commence. It'll take the Bush-lites completely off their game. It's pretty much been a proven fact that they don't have the brains to "fight" two fronts at the same time. It'll slice and dice them.

Well that sucks.

"The President was boring."

John Dickerson, over in Slate, ran much the same article (albeit at much greater length).

You guys!

Politics *should* be boring. There *shouldn't* be any drama to it. It shouldn't be about evoking emotion and big dramatic flourishes--that's when you know that people are trying to bullshit you rather than sitting you down and having a long talk about good public policy.

For the last eight years--and really, even for years and years beyond that--we've had politics played "from the gut." You had to be tough. You had to take a stand against the terrarists, smoke 'em out, get 'em dead or alive.

What crap. But hey, it made for lively headlines and good political "theatre", right?

You get competent and "boring" or incompetent and theatre. Make up your fracking mind as to which one you think is better. And then sit down and shut the frack up.

this article bores me.

Draedus just detected a base ship. Fire up the FTL and prepare for a jump.

admitting one is not interested in the vital stuff which is keeping one employed while others are suffering is a sign that someone really need to experience first hand the effects of the coming depression so that one will not be considered a rank amateur with no sense of where he works and who he works for when he posts idiotic stream of consciousness ramblings without a clue.

Fire this this asshole, before Salon is considered a complete joke.

He is an insult to the intelligence of your stupidest reader.

Maybe you call a press conference full of factual answers boring. Maybe you consider a President who's articulate and informed boring. Maybe you really ARE that shallow. Too bad...

Wah...wah...wah...

So, three paragraphs that sound as if Bush was a master at press conferences (all the yukking it up from the WH press corps must really have worked to disguise his total incompetence and lies) only to say that ... wait... Obama was really good.

All the pundits' "reviews" are the same today. 'He's a bore, he's too smart, he's a failure... but gosh it is nice to have a real president.'