'Trainwreck' of a speech?

Josh Marshall calls it "already legendarily awful":



Michelle Malkin says, "It’s pedestrian–and even McCain seems to have lost interest in his text," and links Mark Levin, who calls it "a mash and tough to digest."

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton spoke in New York:



(Via Hot Air.) Hillary says:

So many people said this race was over five months ago in Iowa, but we had faith in each other and you brought me back in New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday and in Ohio and in Pennsylvania and Texas and Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and South Dakota. . . .
Now the question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we've come and where we need to go as a party, it's a question I don't take lightly. This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight. But this has always been your campaign, so to the 18 million people who voted for me and to our many other supporters out there of all ages, I want to hear from you. . . .
In the coming days, I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way.

Hopey also gave a speech:

In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we agree on everything, but because behind all the labels and false divisions and categories that define us; beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people, united by common challenges and common hopes. And every so often, there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this country great again. . . .
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

Notice how completely free from any actual content this speech is. It's all just vaguely cheerful rhetoric. I especially like the part about "make this country great again" -- implying that our country is now not great. I suppose Democrats imagine that somebody turned off the Greatness Switch on Jan. 20, 2001, and that, on Jan. 20, 2009, as soon as Obama walks into the Oval Office, he'll just flip the switch again.