for these wise comments....  How meek and week this sounds.  Again, having listened to almost all of Obama's speeches, this one, again, managed to floor me in it's coherent and convincing message, it's tone as well as delivery.  I really appreciate your analysis, Al, (& will put my $ where my heart is), and cannot help but to contrast that to Kos' churlish stance yesterday, refusing to send in $ support until Obama "gave him reason" for it, all because he "threw Clarke under the bus".  I blogged that Sen. Obama has given us many reasons already, and, if he needed a reminder, he should listen to this speech.  My statement that no one is perfect, but sen. Obama makes me aspire to be "better" got bad reactions, too.  When did we last hear a speech from any other politician (besides Cuomo sr. so long ago - Dukakis?) that make us think, show us the underlying thinking in his reasoning and weave it together to show a path for growth?  Thanks, Al et all.