I thought it was one of his better speeches. He ran of at the mouth a little toward the end with the very very's and the believe me's, and the USA chant, but when he stuck to his script, he came across almost presidential. I liked the parts where he acknowledged the fact that black children in Chicago deserve the same education and the same dreams as all children, but his LBGT "Q" came off as trite.
He started off in the right foreign policy direction by saying that we don't need to be nation building any more, and then turned it around to make it sound like he is for just blowing them up and letting God decide. I think he missed a real opportunity there to differentiate himself from Hillary in a good way. He also sounded like a 1960 protectionist when it comes to trade, nothing he said is borne out by fact other than we have signed some bad deals of late, but here again he runs off the end of the pier instead of just leaving Hillary on the beach. He is missing some opportunities to show how poor the left deals with problems without trying to one-up them in that regard.
But overall, one of his better efforts. It must have had an impact, because The Hill and Huffpo just went balls out today reprinting every evil thing anyone anywhere has to say about him.