 I'm not sure he did enough to assuage the doubters, but he might have done enough to hold back the rush, and he might just live to fight another day politically. The problem he's got is every single event like this takes on such enormous consequence. Ultimately, he probably got what he needed, but there's probably a lot of Democrats out there who either wanted him to knock it out of the park or fall flat in his face so they could go one way or the other, and maybe being in the middle is not where they want him to be.