Too professorial? Not really...

Mark Liberman neatly sums up the "Obama is too professorial" meme ...

This case is no exception. Mr. Payack trots out a few nearly-meaningless numbers, and the media (including many bloggers) obliges by arguing about whether the problem is Obama's elite aloofness or the public's bad education. In fact, the problem is none of the above: it's the media's shallowness and credulity.

And, yeah: he has a lot of numbers to back it up, including that Obama's speech used shorter sentences than many of Bush's.