Boston gets a shout-out!

Barack Obama says (in Berlin):

The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.

As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.

Hrm...ok...so we didn't make it into the happy uplifting part.

Mostly I draw attention to it because I thought the speech, as a whole, was a little...I don't know, boring? I agree with the sentiments, it's certainly pretty "safe," but I'm not really blown away. I guess I was hoping to see him do what he did (at least for me) with his race speech, which was not only a great piece of oratory but also was one of the most accurate diagnosis of race relations in America...in my opinion.

I'm curious about European and American (and Asian and African for that matter) reception to the speech.

Any thoughts? Anyone more impressed than me? Less impressed? Am I missing something?