++Douglas Brinkley and other historians said it was a speech for the ages, written "in poetry".
++Comments on Huffingtonpost range from this is how a real President speaks to comments on the contrast of Republicans attending a war-speech by Bibi and boycotting this one.
++Weirdly business insider loved the speech and focused on the woman CEO who would have been in the secretarial pool.
++In my previous remarks, I forgot to mention President Obama calling the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel in our democracy, and his call for the 100 members of Congress to go home and pass another one.
++Several commentators noticed that President Obama came close to saying the "f-word" when referring to people not voting. He said the people who crossed Pettus Bridge were willing to die for the right to vote and now Americans are giving away their power by not voting.
++I disagree that this speech was close to his Philadelphia speech on race. I thought this one was better while the other one just dealt with then whole flap over Reverend Wright. Good but it didn't encompass a whole vision of America like this one did.
++One commentator commented that this man knows what it means to be an American, while others just live in the country.
++A few commentators said they would vote for him a third time. I wondered how any of the 2016 aspirants could match his eloquence.
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