Would you tell him the election is over. Time to be President. Rhetoric only goes so far.
A statement of his political philosophy in a philosophical speech isn't campaigning. Also, do you really think presidents ever exit campaign mode?
I believe there was a basic ideological shift here, since he has been President he has concentrated on the soft power soft ball, throwing out apologies for America's past while praising other cultures, a rejection of American exceptionalism and reaffirmation of cultural relativism, this speech reverses course and does talk of America's exceptional role in the world, often by having to use military power.
I think he is switching gears here; he has tried the soft ball approach and got nothing from anyone, Russia, Iran, China, nothing.
He knows in his next year is going to have to play some hard ball, and he is setting the stage.
I disagree. My reading, of both the campaign and his presidency so far, as has been an emphasis on both shared power and shared responsibility. That we're willing to work with others, as long as they are also responsible. For all the talk of the liberalism in Obama's foreign policy, it's struck a much more conservative tenor than that of his predecessor. Gone is the Bush era focus on neo-Wilsonian arguments on great moral credos, and in it's a place a more Nixonian view of American power: gritty realism and focus on global balancing act.