The very early consensus in the mushy mainstream is that, yes, Obama did himself good tonight. (Not so in National Review’s The Corner, whose writers heard a far more acidic, petulant, and nasty speech than I did.) Given that the only memorable passage was his lovely invocation of American optimism and toughness, I’m not sure how it will. There wasn’t much to rally behind, or toward, or about. And he gave his own party no cover. Indeed, he seemed to ask them to shoulder a lot of the blame for America’s anger and cynicism, in effect offering them as a sacrificial lamb for his own standing.
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