greetings from the real world,
i have waded through the 51 comments thus far and there seems to be very little mention of your premise; that this should have been the speech given on 12 september 2001...? (by the way, i like that nifty abbreviation you guys have for quantanamo bay) any american president of any political persuasion would have been looking for somewhere to unleash the dogs of war that day. that is what happens in the real world, where actions have consequences and force is met with force. not just a vague muttering that we "hope" it won't transpire again and, why can't we all just be our better selves?
secondly, obama does not need you on the campaign trail. he knows how to get (re-) elected. he will amass an obscene $1 billion to do so (the price of democracy, apparently). he will galvanise an enormous "get out the vote" movement in his key constituencies. it is not compulsory to vote in the US. he's borrowing cleft notes from clinton on dealing with a hostile congress. and style points from reagan on appealing to the centre ground. any serious contenders are sitting him out until 2016. and george w bush won two terms.
anyway. palin/trump 2012 for me. let's see if we can really break this world of ours.
regards
a chump
