What’s Brokaw’s deal?

I noticed during last week’s Meet the Press that Tom Brokaw kept making vague anti-Obama statements in passing, which was unlike his performance in past weeks. Then, he said this tonight:

Being a former POW does not mean nobody can criticize you in the future. It’d be one thing if the democrats were criticizing him for his plane being shot down, but that’s not the case. McCain’s POW story is important and is a good showcase of his character, but it doesn’t make him right on Iraq (or Iran), it doesn’t make him any less anti-intellectual and it doesn’t lessen the degree to which he’s lined up with the republicans in the last few years.

Also, I’ve never been a big Clinton fan, but Bill’s speech tonight was really good. John Kerry’s speech was much better than the ones he gave while he was running, too.

Here are the C-SPAN versions of the speeches, which thankfully don’t have pundits inserting their commentaries mid-speech: