I didn't think it was a good speech. He may have been under a lot of pressure from all those stately speeches past already given. We were warned it would not be surprising. I thought the speech did not appreciate enough of the Anglo-Saxon words, instead using words like "gross domestic product", which sounds like jargon. I know what it means, but it isn't a phrase that will last for the age. No one will remember it by heart, or say it every day. It helps make him human, I suppose, prone to Senator-speak.