Barack Obama is provoking the pundits.
Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column today titled “Can He Unleash the Force?†echoes rising criticism that he is “tentative about commanding the stage and consistently channeling the excitement he engenders. At times, he seems to be actively resisting his phenom status and easy appeals to emotion. When he should fire up, he dampens. When he should dominate, he’s deferential. When he should lacerate, he’s languid.â€
But Obama may be inventing a new and shrewd variation of the tortoise-and-the-hare story…