If the worst his opponents can say about the speech is that Obama's really, really popular and go on to ridicule people who are inspired and believe in dreams, they have some serious problems. (Not the least of which is frustration that they don't have somebody better.)

SINS, he lost me about 5 minutes in, but I kept listening. It got better... a LOT better. I thought Olberman and Matthews were going to wet themselves. I sort of expected Olberman to praise Obama, but Matthews seemed very emotional afterward, and that surprised me.

I think it's fine to believe in the man and to believe in dreams. He'll get elected. Then we can watch to see how well he fulfills his promise.

Things only have no chance of improving when people stop trying.