The president was pitch-perfect, but the raucous and inappropriate setting and surroundings brought the evening down:
Never before in the annals of national moments of mourning have the words spoken been so wildly mismatched by the spirit in which they were received. The sentences and paragraphs of President Obama’s speech last night were beautiful and moving and powerful. But for the most part they didn’t quite transcend the wildly inappropriate setting in which he delivered them.
You can read the rest of my take here in the New York Post.
