Agreed. Unfortunately, I think the bar is so low for Democrats that anything that appears reasonable in delivery or substance is now praised. All Webb had to do was avoid a Dean-like scream, and since he managed to do that he's praised.
It's a sad state of affairs when no one in the MSM bothers to actually look at the substance of a speech and make the points you just did.
True but it's been the state of affairs my entire adult life and I don't expect it to change while I'm still exhaling a pollutant.