While stumping through Ohio, at carefully chosen venues in deeply Democratic regions, something unexpected happened to the new U. S. Dictator.  

Obama said, “You inspire me.”

And you know how the members of that crowd in the most Democratic district of Ohio responded to that campaigning Democratic president’s professed sincerity this time?

They laughed at him.

“Okay,” Obama insisted, “you do.”

And the president, like a pro pol, continued with his speech, as if nothing had happened.