He took us all to church, that was nice. I love a guy waxing poetic about the indomitable greatness of the American spirit and all that, and the man does have talent. All in all, though, from a policy point of view I didn't find much about the speech that was particularly amazing, or particularly horrible. It was a little interesting that after announcing an aggressive jobs program, he gave the Republicans some specific red meat with nuclear power and offshore drilling - but then only issued what I thought was a rather vague insistence that they get on board with health care or get out of the way.
From my amateur perspective, nothing matters to Obama's political future more than passing health care - and I think he could have gone further to put Congress on notice...a deadline, or something. The speech wouldn't have done anything on its own, anyhow, so maybe it doesn't matter. The next few weeks will be tell the true tale of whether Barack Obama really wants to govern.
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