"In this winter of our..hardship"

44 takes to the podium for the speech prior to his presser and almost let's some Shakespeare roll trippingly off his tongue.

Pretty agile mini-speech here by Favreau/Obama. Deftly maneuvers the minefield of high minded bipartisanship ("an unprecendented amount of input from both democrats..and republicans") while painting a bleak outlook on the economic days to come (so we know who to put the finger at if the bill doesn't pass and unemployment jumps t0 15%.) The heartbreaking anecdotes from his short stop in Elkhart today really hit home, and he uses the urgency of the moment to innoculate himself against the bills imperfections - acknowledging that many ideas in the bill might not grow magic beans immediately.