After the race speech I noted its flaws, and its positive aspects. But I also noted that these were expressions of ideas that I have expressed before, that all thinking men have grappled with, that we all know it is time to get past. The question to my mind is how. The answers that “OH” has given, or that I can infer from his speeches, web page and past are not workable, will not achieve the results you want. It is one thing to extol the nature of what it is to be American, it is another to pass off as American the result of plans that do not come close to matching what is in the heart of any patriot I have ever known. The question is still one of individual vs the state, the answer is not in bigger institutions but gets lost there in. The questions arise in the large efforts to achieve maximum efficiency, the answers are found in the most inefficient of ways mainly by individual ingenuity and individual will and effort. The herd tramples the individual mind and spirit. While I recognize that for certain efforts there “is no I in team”. For all efforts there are four different and distinct letters forming the word in team.

I wrote my reply above before his speech was uttered, yet I think that the substance of the man still belies the substance of his heart. Yeah he is a politician, but what has he done? Yeah he sounds neat, but what has he done?
I do not believe he knows what it is that makes America great, his speech confirms it.