How to get a lot of votes: Obama's debt and deficit speech

"We contribute to programs like Medicare and Social Security, which guarantee us health care and a measure of basic income after a lifetime of hard work; unemployment insurance, which protects us against unexpected job loss; and Medicaid, which provides care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, poor children, those with disabilities. We're a better country because of these commitments.  I'll go further. We would not be a great country without those commitments."  - Barack Obama, April 13, 2011, George Washington University

HERE is James Fallows analysis of the rhetoric of the President's debt and deficit speech at George Washington Universityon April 13, 2011.   HERE is the insufferable David Brooks conceding that Obama will be re-elected.  HERE is the transcript.  And this is the video.