Obama back in campaign mode

I just finished watching the video clip of President Obama giving a speech at the Apollo Theater in Harlem -- obviously a very supportive audience.  It's being billed as his preview of his State of the Union speech next Tuesday evening.

Whatever they conceived it to be -- it was a grand slam home run.  He is back in campaign mode -- with grayer hair (he pointed out) but with all the soaring rhetoric, sounding all the right notes to rev up those who loved him before.

What made all the difference, in my opnion, was that he did not read a speech.  He spoke, sometimes a bit haltingly, searching for a word -- but it felt spontaneous and real -- unlike the carefully worded speeches he reads.

To be candid -- it made the clowns we've been watching in the GOP debates for months look like just that, clowns.

It is worth watching the video.  Here's the link.  Anyone who has lost faith, please watch this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-marshall-crotty/obama-sings-republicans-g_b_1219995.html?ref=politics

Ralph