The speech was vintage Obama: illuminating, exhorting, cajoling, explaining, inspiring and shaming and much much more, all rolled into one amazing 50 minute speech.

BUT, I think the biggest take away was this: every one of us was complicit in getting the country where it is today, and in a sense enabling the thuggery of the last 8 years, so shape up America, and pay serious attention to the serious problems.  The two particular targets were the two intransigent Congressional critter camps: Rethugs and DemWimps.

He was a classic professor, as he always is when necessary.  I don't think he enjoys this aspect, but I think he does it when he has to, just enough to give him breathing room to do all the other things he needs to do to get us out of this incredible mess.  My heart just aches that he has to keep doing this periodically.

He also had a not-so-secret exhortation for those of the on the left, sitting here and carping at him: I am in your camp, I want to do what you want to do; our obstacles are in the Congress, go put pressure on them.   We have our marching orders.  Anyone want to join me in trying to do something about this very real problem?

Since I do not see any video post by the frontpagers on the absolutely stellar, seminal, and policy and politics filled speech that Sen. Obama gave this morning, I am posting a small segment I found on youTube:

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