What a disappointment, in a string of disappointments:
His theme last night in the State of the Union was the "WTF," you know, "Winning the Future." And I thought, "OK, that acronym, spot on." There were a lot of "WTF" moments throughout that speech, namely, when he made the statement, Greta, that he believed that we can't allow ourselves to, I guess, eventually become buried under a mountain of debt. ...
That was another one of those WTF moments, when he so often repeated this Sputnik moment that he would aspire [sic] Americans to celebrate. ...
-- Sarah Palin, January 26, 2011, quoted here
Leadership seeks to elevate the discourse, to model the good that people may follow it. And this isn't it.