Pundits have been praising Obama's speech, with even the veteran Republican consultant David Gergen calling it "memorable" and the best of the campaign. You can read a transcript of the speech here.
Matt Yglesias, on his blog, is highly impressed:
Electrifying. Exciting. It's easier, of course, to be excited and exciting when you're winning but he's doing it. Hitting some populist themes strongly but with a bit of subtlety and grace; emphasizing the idea of organizing and mobilization as more than just election tactics but as integral to changing the world.
Over at Tapped, Ezra Klein lauds Obama's speech:
The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence.
