You can get the transcript here. Reviews have been mixed -- and by that, I don't mean that some have been good and some have been bad. I mean that the most thoughtful reviews have been internally mixed; it was good and it wasn't so good. The only full-on good review I could find (although I didn't spend all night looking) comes from NBC's Mark Murray.
"Yes, the president's speech lacked specifics about how to achieve energy reform (But who thought that legislative specifics would be the focus of a 15-minute address on the spill and how to respond to it?)," he wrote. "It also was short, as the AP writes, on specifics about how he would be able to keep his promises on Gulf reconstruction and the BP fund to compensate Gulf residents...
"But if the goal was to assure the public that Obama is on top of the crisis, that BP will be punished, that Gulf residents will be compensated, and that energy reform is too important to kick down the road, it certainly met expectations."...[CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
