O’Donnell began his analysis: “When I hear a statement like that — read a statement like that from Barack Obama — who is, as we’ve said, an introspective and thoughtful and very wise man — and a brilliant writer. And he says something like he came 20 years too soon, my reaction to that is: What do you mean?”

He then went over the top as he elaborated: “Which is to say, I cannot possibly fill In the paragraph that that is the first sentence of, if it is spoken by Barack Obama because his mind is too supple, too complex, too rich compared to my own to fill out what the rest of that thought is.”