I think it's fair to say that I've been as strong an advocate of tougher "class war" attacks by Obama as anyone, but I actually thought Obama's two minute, sober demand for fixing the rot of the regulatory system and helping working families was exactly right at this crisis point. There was plenty of time to hit at the complete greed of the corporate execs before the immediate crisis -- which I wish Obama had done a bit more of -- and there will be time during the cleanup aftermath where we should sharpen the class warfare language. But right now, we needed a steady voice in a crisis.

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