Last night's speeches

Tom Bevan reviews last night's speeches at the RCP Blog. I'm glad that some of the punditry also thought that Obama's last paragraph was just a step too far:

The climax at the end also struck me as a bit over the top veering dangerously close to the kind of messianic rhetoric that might make people's hair stand on end (generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment... when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal).

Jonah Goldberg at The Corner, hit a little harder, calling the last section "an enormous gust of gassy nonsense".

One point that I forgot to make about Obama's speech last night was in regard to the McCain cheap shots, especially the, "They will come here to nominate John McCain, a man who has served this country heroically. I honor that service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine" (picked up by Mark Hemingway at The Corner). Aside from being totally uncalled for, it's the type of lame stunt that renders a great speech very ordinary in eyes of history -- it was a shame to see it, but equally, it's something we've come to expect from Mr Duplicitous: even though I could attack my opponent for all of these reasons, I'm not going to do it (--it's as bad as Huck's anti-Romney, 'I'm going to show the press the attack ad I've decided not to run' stunt from during the primaries).