It is very easy, as an Obama supporter, to focus on language being important.  For one thing no one reading this would even be on TMP if they didn’t have some affinity for language.  We are all writing it constantly!  Secondly, after 9 years of George Bush (don’t forget we had to listen to him during the campaign) we are all starved for a simple sentence, let alone a coherent one.  When we first heard Obama speak, it was such a balm to the soul.  Was there someone in politics who was actually worth listening to?  Might that person actually be in a position to gain enough power to accomplish something, anything?  More importantly, is it possible that we have become accustomed, in this short period of time, to the sound of accountable language?  That is why Clinton’s melt-down Friday was so very hard to hear.  We all know that as sure as you are what you eat, you are also what you say.