Obama's Awakening?

While I still hear reluctance in his voice, as well as in the policies he's implementing, the President's speech yesterday was a welcome sign nonetheless that maybe, just maybe, he and his Adminsitration are beginning to take at least a bit more seriously the threat we face as a country. Unfortunately I fear it's for the wrong reason. I'm thinking it very slowly dawned on Obama and at least some his advisors that had the Christmas Day bomber succeeded, his presidency would have been effectively over. And that the liberal dream of universal government-run healthcare, heck, the liberal dream of universal government-run everything, would have been over as well.