In other news, Andrew Sullivan has blogged about Obama’s gay rights speech, and I think in this case his reaction sums up that of activists for gay rights on hearing it:

But the sad truth is: he is refusing to take any responsibility for his clear refusal to fulfill clear campaign pledges on the core matter of civil rights and has given no substantive, verifiable pledges or deadlines by which he can be held accountable. What that means, I’m afraid, is that this speech was highfalutin bullshit. There were no meaningful commitments within a time certain, not even a commitment to fulfilling them in his first term; just meaningless, feel-good commitments that we have no way of holding him to. Once the dust settles, ask yourself. What did he promise to achieve in the next year? Or two years? Or four years? The answer is: nothing.

A lot of nice rhetoric, but Obama didn’t give any specifics, which is exactly what the gay community and those on the left angry over the inaction on DADT and DOMA want.

Here’s Sully.

Obama is going to draw all the ire of the religious right and of the so-con/theocratic wingnuts for that speech, while also - at best - mildly placating people who care about this issue.
It was a good speech and good ideas, but the fierce urgency of now has apparently turned into the fierce urgency of ‘whenever’.