Barack Obama's Spine of Steel Speech

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's Spine of Steel Speech AKA "This Election Is Not The Change We Seek"OK, I cannot even lay my hands on a final result, but the win is in. The victory is big enough. The junkie moments should be receding.

The next big thing? Parsing the major Obama players? From Rahm Emmanuel on down? ER

Or defining the course of an "Obama movement"? SOURCE Rachel Maddow will be relieved.

I most like the notion of a puppy going to the White House. Remember the little dog Fala. SOURCE

The brainy man with a Spine of Steel has a heart.

But for the rest of us:

Entitlement dreams will wrestle with traces of resentment at feeling out of the loop.

Aged and infirm will chafe at the idea that the real players of the future will all be young. But we know that won't be true. SOURCE Warren and Colin will sit at the table. Retirees will have a place.

We need some steel too. Think smart. There are, after all, only six degrees of separation.

And we have some recent intelligence, more useful than the Lear-like predelictions of the MSM regarding who is in and who is out.

Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; —
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies ...

The blueprint's in the Steel-Spine Speech, my name -- with apologies to Joe Biden -- for what we heard at midnight in the glow of victory.

Barack knows that all that has preceded this defining moment is as nothing, compared to the need to actually start doing the things that we must do to reclaim our country and to set its priorities right. The Spine of Steel Speech tells us that we actually managed to elect a real President, not someone who will lounge around on Air Force One, dissing folk eye-to-eye with made-up nicknames and other boorish self-revelations.

This is a man who will insist on seeing the matrix of the Presidency whole. Being unabashed to ask when he does not know. And then on taking the necessary steps to fill it. Not a bad recipe for whatever insistences we might conjure up -- for whatever matrix we might like to fill.







So before we try to figure out how we will fit in, or what the Obama movement should do or be, let's pay renewed attention to the Spine of Steel Speech, and see if it does not offer a salient clue or two.

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