It was an inspiring speech from an inspiring politician. The US(and the world at large) is heading into some very troubling economic times and will need a leader who can lead, a leader who can inspire, a leader who can make people pull together for the common good.

Think Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy (tragically truncated though his term was).   

Maybe inspiration won't be enough; it may take something like a miracle to pull the country up out of the muck and mire it has been dragged down to in the past eight years, but without inspiration IMHO, there isn't a hope...there isn't a hope in hell.