[KevinTheOmnivore]

From whitehouse.gov, visiting a school in Mississippi, the President said "First of all, I want to thank the school principal for her hospitality. It's interesting, you know, she said she lost her school and lost her house, but I told her she hadn't lost her smile or her will to succeed."

Alright. Enough. Look, anybody who thinks I've turned into a conservative on this board can verify that I'm not really down with the Bush bashing. I like to play devil's advocate, and try to give the benefit of the doubt when avaialble.

But these cute, contrived, "real-folkisms" simply need to stop. No more of this. This reminds me of the time at a town hall meeting he told a woman working three jobs and raising kids "boy, there's somethin' really American about that, aint there?"

The president needs to get out of his insulated PR bubble and get his foot out of his ass. We need him to be louder right now, more of a leader, on the recovery issue, as well as iraq.