Tonight's speech

I don't know if it's just because I've spent the past 8 years listening to a barely-literate doofus stammering through monosyllabic words, but goddamn can President Obama give a speech.

Seriously light on actual policy, of course, but you know what? He didn't spent thirty minutes talking about the terr'rsts and how we've gotta go get 'em, so I'm pretty happy.

Bonus points for "No one messes with Joe" (just pure awesome), listing community service/volunteering as exactly equal with military service, and pointing out that our military needs aren't the same as they were fifty years ago and maybe we should stop funding retarded Cold War era projects that don't work (*cough*missiledefence*cough*).