Another moment from the speech yesterday that struck me:

"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."

The camera immediately cut to George Bush, placidly listening Obama directly repudiate his policies and decisions. Awkward!

I was not the only one to notice it, and it brings to mind another time when somebody stuck it to Bush right in his face:

After thanking President Bush "for his service to our nation," Mr. Obama executed a high-level version of Stephen Colbert's share-the-stage smackdown of W. at the White House correspondents' dinner in 2006.

With W. looking on, and probably gradually realizing with irritation, as he did with Colbert, who Mr. Obama's target was -- (Is he talking about me? Is 44 saying I messed everything up?) -- the newly minted president let him have it:

"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals," he said to wild applause (and to Bartlett's), adding: "Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." He said America is choosing hope over fear, unity over discord, setting aside "false promises" and "childish things."