More scattered thoughts on Obama’s speech, with the video when I find it, in the future, but not yet, just kidding now we have it (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Here’s the video! Finest speech I’ve ever seen from him, and that’s saying quite a lot. I cannot wait to see his inauguration speech:

(h/t The Poor Man Institute, whose caption for the speech is “Owned!”)

Overall, I think he hit all the right notes…if you want to read the whole thing, clicky clicky.

Thoughts, out of order:

1. He hit the abortion issue in a way that all but the most rabidly uninformed “pro-lifers” should be able to understand:

“…whatever we believe about abortion, we can all agree on lowering the number of unwanted pregnancies.”

2. The line about McCain being willing to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, but not to the cave where he lives was perfect, considering the fact that McCain is on record saying he’s not willing to go after bin Laden in Pakistan.

3. Big fan of this line: “You don’t defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.”

4. The forceful “Enough!” sent the right message. So did 75,000 almost 85,000 Americans screaming “Yes, We Can!” and “Eight is Enough!”

5. Bob Cesca comments from his live-blog, which I happen to endorse wholeheartedly:

10:16PM
“ENOUGH!” This could be his strongest, greatest address to date.

10:41PM
He said “temperament” to be commander in chief. Hoo-hoo! Take that, St. McAnger.

10:48PM
“So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.”

10:58PM
Wow. I’m floored.

11:01PM
I’m seriously speechless. Extraordinary. It was smart, bold, strong, a lot eff-you-McBush. After so many years of despair — we’re on our way out of the dark.

11:09PM
Like it matters, but Bill Kristol just said “Obama exceeded expectations” and went on to praise it for a number of reasons including Obama’s love of America. Finally, Kristol is right about something.

Haha, Bill Kristol was right. Never thought that would happen. I was equally floored, and I’ve seen Obama speak quite a lot. Later on, Cesca quotes a piece from the AP (via Fox News), which criticizes the speech. In this campaign, under Ron Fournier, if the AP doesn’t like it, it must have been brilliant. Especially considering the fact that the douchetard AP writer posted the article before the speech ended.

6. Jed Report:

In one speech, Barack Obama not only destroyed every single argument John McCain has made during this campaign, but he also explained who he is and what he’s fighting for.

But Barack Obama wasn’t just talking about the election tonight. He was talking about America. He wasn’t just addresing the challenges his campaign must confront. He was addressing the challenges our nation must confront.

A conservative friend wrote me after the speech ended: “Barack Obama is going to win in a landslide,” he said. There’s a lot of work yet to be done, and I don’t know that we’ll win a landslide, but as I said yesterday, I have no doubts we will win. The question is by how much.

There you have it.

And that’s going to have to be all until I find the video later. I’m hungry.

Picture above also via Jed, by the way.