This morning I was shocked to stumble across the rarest of things: a negative press clip of Barack Obama. Actually, it's not even that bad, but it is markedly different from the universal gushings we've seen recently. Jon Friedman of Marketwatch writes:
Barack Obama was the man of the moment at this week's American Magazine Conference in the desert -- but he failed to dazzle his audience.
He showed a conference of magazine editors and publishers that he can withstand the heat of the national spotlight. He has clear ideas about where the Bush administration has gone wrong in Iraq, its energy policy and the budget. But he failed to wow the crowd. At no point during the time he spoke to the throng did he leave any of us with a moment we'll remember, other than the spectacle of seeing up close someone famous. He has become a celebrity as an appealing Senator, author of the much-discussed new book "The Audacity of Hope" and a likely presidential candidate.
He was almost equal parts solid and stolid.
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