That was a great line, as was the line about how (paraphrased) “your people will judge you by what you build, not by what you destroy.”
The speech had many strong lines in it, but not especially soundbitish lines. Not sure I can explain the difference.
I also liked the line about (paraphrased) “we reject the idea that we must choose between our safety and our ideals.”
Daniel
I thought he was just chuckling because they were both showing their nervousness.
Presidential prerogative? 
Nah, actually, I don’t think that fits. Obama’s a constitutional scholar, so I think the chuckle was just his way of affirming the fumble. Either to put Roberts at rest or to let the watchers know he “got it.”
I’d have done the same, if it was in my area of expertize - just the same way I cluck when I see a boom shadow in a film or catch a badly organized computer at work.
Please elaborate. In the -99 household, that was a fantastic speech.
Well, exactly. WAY more than halfway decent. Clearly, Obama overshot. 
What the hell is this? I go to the Free Republic to get my RDA of crazy. These people sound entirely reasonable.
Ah, that’s better.
It’s nice to finally have someone in charge who brings an ability to speak, a desire to make friends of enemies and the balls to also say (effectively) “Knock this shit off or we will seriously fuck you up!”
A perfect leader would be nice, but Obama will definitely do. Dude had me all misty because I actually believed in the vision he was laying out.
See, Obama’s already increasing the IQ of the nation!
Mayhap they belatedly remembered how they’ve spent the past 8 years defending a man just barely capable of human speech.
They did, in large numbers (not everyone, but it’s a hard anthem to sing). But the broadcast you heard probably suffered from the Howard Dean mic effect: to get right the choir’s sound, the fellow riding the mixing board potted down the ambient-sound mics. You don’t sing as loud as you cheer, so you don’t hear background.
And it was a fine speech. No immortal line a-la FDR or JFK, but fine nonetheless.
I concede this ***** bit. Even our footy fans start mumbling after the “God save our gracious queen” bit. They should have had the sound guy from Woodstock on the mixing board…“Come on. There’s about 2 million of you fuckers out there. You can do better than that!” Country Joe or Bono would have had the place bouncing! 
Can’t fault that.
Remember, our new President taught Constitutional Law. I knew that the Chief Justice flubbed it as soon as he said it. Obama wasn’t expecting it, but IMHO gave the CJ a break, and continued on…then the web site crashed, and I missed the rest of the oath. Boo-hoo :mad: :smack: 
If you don’t want to wait for Stephe96 to respond, you can go instead to the zoo and watch the monkeys rubbing poo on their heads.
At least Obama said “so help me god” instead of “so god help me”.
You guys.
Okay, that would have been awesome.
WTH is Free Republic?
I have not had the courage to visit, but I think it’s a right-wing board, with lots of screaming invective. There’s a link to it in the second post.
I saw that live, and it seemed like Chris Wallace started to realize how stupid that whole angle sounded even as he was saying it.