 The first 30 minutes of his too-long 93-minute address were riveting. He described what it was like to be shot in the ear. He said if the bullet had been just a little more to the right, he would not be there, but dead. Advance Word said this was supposed to be a unity speech. It was for a while. Then it devolved into a stump speech with various grievances we've heard before. It wasn't that he was wrong about many of them. It was just that we were led to believe this would be an optimistic address and a call for unity.