I hope not. Charles Blow asks many questions in the op-ed. The most important are:

But, in the end, it was just another speech. It didn’t answer definitively the larger questions that remain for this president:

Has he truly shifted strategy or is his tonal shifting merely temporal?

Has he finally realized that you can’t rub the belly of the beast that wants to eat you, that you have to fight your way off the plate and bring the monster to heel?

Has he come to understand that Americans value valiant struggle over bloodless surrender?

Does he have any interest in becoming the Obama of people’s imaginations, the one they thought they saw through the showers of streamers, and explosions of confetti in 2008 — the man who only ever existed in their own minds?

Is the “transformative president” more than an opportunistic transformer, shifting shape to suit the moment, but truly settling on none?

I don't know the answer to these questions. As Charles Blow writes:

Obama can and must answer these questions, and quickly.

The issue is simple.

Americans want him to clearly identify his core beliefs. It’s simple: They want to fully understand his values and how they apply to us as individuals and as a country. Moreover, they want to be completely convinced that he is willing to defend it all. The vacillation between hot and cold, stern and pliable, resolute and accommodating hasn’t inspired that confidence.

More importantly if President Obama does not address these issues then we may have Rick Perry win the presidency. I wholly agree with Charles Blow.

This man shouldn’t even be allowed to traipse his boots and spurs into the White House for a visit, let alone take up residence there.

Yes we must call, write, e-mail, carrier pigeon our representatives pass this bill. But president Obama must also show us this speech is not a part of a larger pattern of triangulation.