Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a somewhat deliberate speech-giver himself, praised President Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention, and jokingly marveled at its brevity.

“There’s nothing in there that surprised,” Silver said immediately after the speech concluded. “He did everything in a half hour, that was probably the biggest surprise, but it just flowed, flowed right through, hit the themes that we’ve been talking about for a long time.”

Silver was given the hook the night previous during the delegate roll call. While praising the many different geographic and cultural aspects of New York in his capacity as the delegation’s leader, Silver was asked to speed up how the state was voting for the presidential nomination.

Overall, Silver praised the speech for hammering home what former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday night.

“I think he hit all the issues, he reiterated a lot of what Bill Clinton said yesterday,” he said. “He defined the differences between Democrats and Republicans and what the vision for the future is.”

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