President Obama is scheduled to speak in one hour and the girls behind me are desperately trying to start the wave. A perky, hooknosed girl stands up and says, "Okay, everyone, on the count of three. One,two, three, go." I try not to look behind me. "Guys, come on," she announces to the crowd, her tone growing sharp. "Were you even listening?"
We're at the University of Maryland's Comcast Center, waiting for the President to sell us on his health-care proposal. The crowd waited in long lines on a drizzly day, and now that we were inside we felt impatient.