A great caller to Cspan just finished saying the Democrats have NO IDEAS on how to help this nation - all they do is criticize the President. The caller said it several times and was not (surprisingly) cut off by the Cspan hostess.
1. The President called out the critics and refuted their comments on the war.
2. He detailed the successes in the war, and he talked about the challenges.
3. He talked about energy independence, and what we need to do to achieve it.
4. I am really glad to hear him talk about science education. My degree is in geology (which was what I did as a profession for a number of years) and I really think this effort he is proposing is long overdue.
5. Great, inspiring finish to the speech.
I am sure there were lots more points (taxes, Patriot Act renewal, use of NSA) but these were the ones that stuck out in my mind.