Obama Scores on Speech

I tend to be in the minority (well, at least for people not named Andrew Sullivan) and to be honest, I haven't watched the entire speech but I've read it and it's pure genius. I don't know who wrote it but it may just have won Obama the nomination and maybe even the Oval Office. Note: The video of the speech is at the bottom of the Drudge link.

He needed a homer and hit--maybe not quite a grand slam--but a two run shot to take the lead. He turned the tables and was conciliatory--his hallmarks. He didn't take the politically expedient route of throwing Rev. Wright under the bus but did say he didn't agree with the man's more bigoted and divisive statements. The Wright issue will remain but Obama took most of the sting out.

We'll wait and see just how many people watched it and how many people had their minds changed or at least put at ease. The polling numbers should be interesting.

To conclude, the speech was pure theater and the Obama camp deserves kudos for the spectacle. While he didn't adequately address his continued affiliation with the church, he did gloss it over enough to retain the votes of those who were wavering.

Update: For the record, I'm not saying Obama said or did anything extraordinary. He didn't nearly anwer the important questions. I am saying that he did indeed do enough to win over those who were second-guessing themselves. That was the target audience and he probably made them feel good enough listening to this drivel that they feel OK supporting him.