Depressing.

So remember that mediocre speech given the other night by the President? Apparently it can be summed up something like this:

Obama's nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 "Yes, we can" victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack [Paul J.J., president of Global Language Monitor] said.

"The scores indicate that this was not Obama at his best, especially when attempting to make an emotional connection to the American people," he added.

The President was not at his best when speaking at a tenth grade level because that's too high to connect to the American people.

OFFS x10000000000000000000000000.

Edited to add: stellamod, in comments, passed along this article which refutes Mr. Payack. So, nevermind. Perhaps his claims are just shite.