Obama is a Liberal.
Obama is not a god.
I will not join mounting hysteria over this man based on this performance.
He is a typical young liberal. Which is to say that energy serves to distract from his message. AS liberals age they have to struggle with the loss of that vitality youth provides. Most lose their humor in the process. If you want the perfect example look at Katie Couric's decline as her wrinkles have advanced.
Obama's biggest obstacle, at the moment, will be if he can retain looks and energy as age progresses.
He is a possible threat down the line. The solution is not to attack him. It isn't to build him up into an undefeatable god. That will only serve to build his reputation as it served Clinton. The best procedure to counter him is to acknowledge it was a stylistic speech, hit the right upbeat note for the evening. Then focus on grooming young conservatives to counter him. Quietly, without making it seem it is down out of desperation.
Obama is not a threat in the present. It better that threat has been identified while the opportunity exists to counter him in future.
A little tidbit I'd like to point out. During the Illinois primary season, there were 4 or 5 candidates running with Barak Obama in the democratic primary. The frontrunner was a rich guy, I believe named Blair Hull, who was running ahead of the pack. Suddenly, Blair's divorce papers were outed stating that he had hit his wife. Obama denied any involvement in the outing of this information, but outed it was. Blair plummeted in the polls, and Obama, who had been running second was suddenly catapulted into first place, and went on to win the democratic primary. Jack Ryan won in the Republican primary. Now it was Obama vs. Jack Ryan in the general election. Now, and once again, Jack Ryan's divorce papers were outed, with Obama once again claiming that he had nothing to do with it (the Chicago Trib sought the divorce info through the courts, and got a liberal judge in California to release them). Ryan ends up quitting the race because of the outing of the divorce papers, and Obama is now the only candidate in the race for Illinois Senator, and it appears will win due to the lack of a viable Republican substitute candidate (Mike Ditka turned the opportunity down). Therefore, twice, because of divorce paper outings, once with Blair Hull and once with Jack Ryan, Obama has gained first place status and will most likely, barring any fluke, become the Illinois Senator to fill Republican Peter Fitzgerald's seat.
Now, with Blair Hull's outing, you could call it as just a lucky break for Obama. However, along comes Jack Ryan, and the same thing happens. You can call this coincidence, but in politics, I don't believe in coincidence. I see the fine hand of Barak Obama and his henchmen, facilitating the information leaks of the dirt on both Blair Hull and on Jack Ryan. After all, who benefited most by both of these "coincidences"? Obama. He, of course, has plausible deniability, but I'm not buying it. I smell another Slick Willy in the making. Don't you agree?