Noonan on the Presidents "Rubble"

In a wonderfully-written article by Peggy Noonan (I've always liked her style), she explains why it's time for the President to "own" his lot in life. The take-away quote for me, however, is:

"...It is never a good sign when the president gets folksy, dropping his g's, because he is by nature not a folksy g-dropper but a coolly calibrating intellectual who is always trying to guess, as most politicians do, what normal people think. When Mr. Obama gets folksy he isn't narrowing his distance from his audience but underlining it. He shouldn't do this. "