i agree it wasn t. i m not sure it was the right decision. my sense of why that was is because they were spooked by one of the republican lines in the attack against president obama. 23 million is the number. 23 million out of work, chronic economic pain in this kuncountr and this guy is sfuk in the clouds. sort of ab tract stuff. people struggle day to day. think of the line in romney s speech and a lot of people at the left mocked it about the oceans and healing the planet sxaul of that. it wasn t about the ecology but to make the point that obama is up there in the clouds and i m saying i want to help you and your family. that s what romney s pitch was. it was designed to address that. what obama was trying to do is intentionally avoid the big speech obama we came to know and focus on the meat and potatoes recitation of we did this, we did this. make it stound to the casual viewer not so much they re caught up in the policy details but that you take it all as a