Yeah, he parked it.

The political reality of his national popularity forced Republicans to rise and applaud over and over for pretty much everything Obama said and proposed, even as he slapped the GOP and Bush around the room for fudging the budget to cover the cost of Iraq, for this "inherited deficit," even as every Republican looked sick at heart whenever the cameras found them.

He hit the G-spots on both sides: health care reform, tax cuts and deliverance from foreign oil for the people watching at home, cutting wasteful education and medicare spending for the Right, cutting defense spending and agribusiness subsidies for the Left, support the troops, teach the children, and we shall overcome. This speech had something for everyone, and he managed to square that circle while sounding authoritative and without pandering.

This was a pep rally to prepare the ground for the upcoming budget brawl, to inject some needed optimism into the national consciousness, to marginalize the GOP bitter-enders, and to cap the two-week project Obama began two weeks ago - with speeches in hurting states and his open-mike economic policy confab yesterday - to force GOPersd to publicly defend their resistance, to sooth the American people's fears, and to change the way an American president does business after eight years of Bush.

It was a pep rally, light on details and still a little too willing (in my humble o) to bestow actual relevance upon the Republicans in congress...but America needed a pep rally, and that includes those 52 million McCain voters who got several pats on the head tonight.

It was also a clarion call for a brave new country we can make out of this mess.

He parked it.

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your best one line synopsis please, Will. This response was written by The Daily Show, I swear!

Pay no attention.

. . . it was amusingly (and interestingly) parliamentarian-like.

Group therapy, as one observer called it the other day.

the Republicans and I loved every minute of it. What a great speech, and what a great Preisdent and First Lady.:bounce:

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-Laelth

that the brilliant use of the G-spot metaphor disqualifies this from wider dissemination.

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If you need to clean it up for wider consumption just change "G-spot" to "sweet spot".

I thought...

Problem is: nobody like that thinks like they do.

Touch 'em all, Barack.