I couldn’t agree more with J. G. Thayer about both presidential humor and Barack Obama’s apparent lack thereof.  But I would put in a good word for Gerald Ford. While no John F. Kennedy in the wit and grace department, he did get off one of the great — and self-deprecating — puns in American political history when he warned the country in 1973, after being sworn in as Nixon’s vice-president, that “I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.”

It is interesting, to say the least, that those noting Obama’s lack of humor and grace are not confined to the likes of Contentions. Would you believe a columnist for Vanity Fair? If Michael Wolff is beginning to realize that Barack Obama is “cold; he’s prickly; he’s uncomfortable; he’s not funny; and he’s getting awfully tedious,” then this presidency is already in trouble.