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The very first question President Obama should ask Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) when they meet next is: “Got a cigarette?”

Gone are the days of the soaring oratory and the early speeches better than any president, including Lincoln, has ever given. Gone is the original, elegant prose, the moving images, the complexity of thought, the subtle historical nuance of his early autobiography â€" and it went so quickly. He did write that stuff, no?

Now, as of last Friday, the eyes grow wide as he berates America in flowing formless and alien anecdotal vindictive and righteous indignation like a neurotic cat chasing a string. We are entering dire straits, says Dan Balz of The Washington Post, but both parties see only the end and not the beginning.

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