David Gergen actually said...

"I give credit to the president tonight for saying I am going to put forward a plan on the deficit. We've been waiting for that. Good for him. He's going to put it forward."

"One has a sense that the campaign really officially launched this weekend. We moved off spring training and we have now gotten the official campaign with the Ames poll and now the president coming out..."

"There's a growing sense that there's no one in charge. Normally in a crisis there's someone who steps forward, usually the president, who steps forward and you have a sense that someone has their hand..."

"I think a growing number of people think he ought to get off the campaign trail, pull people together and see if he can't get some answer, a bipartisan answer, on jobs."