Paul Begala actually said...

"I think the worst thing a president can do is vacillate and he has been vacillating on this for quite some time. Now he's taken a strong position."

"The president wasn't reading talking points, he wasn't reading a teleprompter, he wasn't repeating cliches."

"Younger people very much strongly support this. So it's a forward-looking thing."

"What the president is trying to do is say, 'I want to rebalance. Not invade, conquer and occupy huge countries but project our power in a more nimble way and then rebuild America back home.'"