After going through how often Obama declares whatever he’s talking about a highest priority, or the highest priority, I wondered how often he used that other tired cliché, “we will not rest until” . . .

A bit less often than I thought, but several times since the oil spill began.

May 18 in Youngstown, Ohio: “That’s why I wake up every morning insisting to everybody who works for me that we’re not going to rest until the future brightens for middle-class Americans all across this country, hardworking people.”

May 14 in Washington: “I’m not going to rest or be satisfied until the leak is stopped at the source, the oil in the Gulf is contained and cleaned up, and the people of the Gulf are able to go back to their lives and their livelihoods.”

May 7 in Washington: “So to those who are out there still looking, I give you my word that I’m going to keep fighting every single day to create jobs and opportunities for people. Every one of my team that’s standing alongside me here has the same sense of mission. We’re not going to rest until we put this difficult chapter behind us. And I won’t rest until you and millions of your neighbors caught up in these storms are able to find a good job and reach a brighter day.”

Obama played golf Saturday; apparently he was trying to figure out how to plug holes on the green.