Obama...

Andrew Sullivan called it The Victory Speech.

AS follows up with, "Simply put: he sounded like a president."

He heard the words that were spoken. He heard what he interprets to be a presidential speech. He heard the things that in some ways he wants to hear. He heard the message for change that Obama preaches. He saw the demographic of 17-29 year-olds who put Obama over the top, even if it was by only 8%-age points.

What Sullivan didn't hear was the way Obama said what he said - the linguistics. What he didn't mention was that there was only one African-American woman in the group of people behind Obama on the stage and Obama claiming to be Black when he's been careful not to emphasize it.

I want to know how Obama's sout-side Chicago accent all of a sudden was there in his oration when up until this point only his perfected Harvard Law School speech pattern was used. I want to understand, after attending many African-American church services, how he would explain where the preacher speech structures came from in this speech. I want to know why he used speech ornamentation that mimicked Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is reported to be just over 80,000 African-Americans in Iowa. I want to see the percentage of them that stood behind Obama in the arcane caucus procedure. I want to know if there is a difference when the vote is private as in all other states and in all elections, where no one has to worry about what their neighbors will say or think.

I want to understand how this can be a different Obama than the one that was an Illinois legislator, a veritable do-nothing legislator that never made change, only compromise to not ruffle feathers. I want to know how a man who went back on his word to the citizens of Illinois that, if elected U.S. Senator, he would not run for any other office in order to attain the things he promised to them while not even lasting a year before entertaining and announcing a run for president.

i know i'm going to catch flak for this, but i'm just asking...