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analyst and associate editor and pulitzer prize winner writer for the washington post. thanks for being here tonight. i want to start with the last clip we showed was president obama getting kind of cranked up, getting forceful, making the case. but i thought there was a tone strategy last night not to oversell. richard, what do you think about that? you know, ed, let me say, i m getting more than a little sick and tired of hearing that republican critics make this claim that this tone, the pitch of this speech was flat, there was nothing in it, and it s been repeated through the day by lazy journalists with all of the recall of a goldfish around a very small glass bowl. this president as a candidate and in office has always taken these big moments and toned things down. you don t have to be flying on the wings of oratory at these moments because the big moments speak for themselves. i was in the arena. there were people out there who