Jim, my answer to Brian is in the first sentence post 371040 Page 5 within a half-hour of Brian posting his question, plus my view of Brian's second-point about Obama's extemporaneous/teleprompter deliveries.

Attaching eloquent/cerebral to Obama is common, including recently in Maclean's, Canada's most popular national magazine. Question answered succinctly with alacrity, sourced, ship-shape in military fashion for Brian.

Your conjecture again is faulty. Ease up on your hand-wringing apoplectic rhetoric. The United States isn't going to hell. Americans won't let it happen.