Obama can form a sentence while speaking extemporaneously, which is an art form that seems to get rarer and rarer in politics. Quayle couldn't, and yes, I'd look like a moron, too, if I did the same thing. Which is why I said I said that he'd handed himself to the media on a silver platter. All they had to do was quote him verbatim.

Perhaps we are defining "smear campaign" differently. (I'm saying this in all seriousness.)