I caught about two-thirds to three-quarters of the speech on radio before getting out of the car. Apparently I missed the parts where Obama talked about how we got into this recession, how Freddie and Fannie played a role in the housing bubble, why all the stimulus spending failed to keep unemployment under 8 percent as his team projected, how all of this new spending will get different results than the stimulus he and his party passed, the figures he cited to explain how tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires are holding back recovery, how blaming the country’s deficit and debt problems on millionaires and billionaires doesn’t qualify as “class warfare,” and why what sounded like another campaign speech had to be given before a joint session of Congress. I’m sure I’ll find all that in the transcript.

I guess he didn’t want Styrofoam columns for his party-convention speech this time around.