The question that flummoxed the great orator

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/g20-barack-obama-nick-robinson-question