Trolling around the ‘net, doing my usual morning reconaissance for Catholic news nuggets, I found this review of Barack Obama’s speech last night, from a Catholic priest:

The Obama speech was tedious, verbose, unoriginal. I thought I was at Confirmation listening to the bishop’s sermon: destitute of any original thought whatsoever.

Well, I wouldn’t go that far. It was too long. And there wasn’t a lot of uplift or inspiration there — less stained glass, more steel. (Interestingly, Fred Barnes, on FOX, was sputtering to the point of speechlessness with praise last night.) But I think the candidate made his points and, in every sense, preached to the choir. The test will be whether he reached those outside the walls of this particular church.