……….Obviously missing the verbal and intellectual dexterity of a GWB or Sarah Palin…….In fact it was another boffo performance in which the president demonstrated a total mastery of the issues

MSNBC’s First Read disagreed. In their morning assessment of the presser, NBC’s political team asked, “Honest question: Is there a point when the president knows too much about an issue? He got into the weeds a number of times on a number of different aspects of health care, which is what his diehard supporters love, but might not grab the attention of the average viewer.”