IMPRESSED ME NOT: Walter Shapiro on Obama’s Press Conference. “The president’s response to the first question from the Associated Press about the risks of sounding too apocalyptic about the economy ran (or, to be more accurate, crawled) for nearly 1,200 words–and ended with Obama saying ‘Okay’ with an implicit question mark as if he were requesting permission to keep on talking.” More thoughts here. “What was needed was brevity and what was delivered was decidedly long-winded, non-committal and flat.”