And as a result, there was a real stridency, a need to distinguish himself.
In a speech earlier this year, the party's charismatic leader, Hassan Nasrallah, signalled both stridency and fatalism.
This is partly prompted by fears of growing unemployment, yet it also seems to reflect a general waning of revolutionary stridency.
However, stridency from that opposition and weakness of the Republican field put Obama in much better position than the situation should allow.
Last week, when John Rowe, Exelon's CEO, slammed the Chamber's "stridency against carbon legislation, " he was clearly casting his company as a green knight.
Mexico, after the failed presidency of Vicente Fox, risks a lurch back to the populist stridency that took it down for much of the 20th century.
But in political terms, the new stridency among senior British Muslims is probably the bare minimum of assertiveness they could show while keeping any credibility with their grassroots.
The more they vent, the more their stridency softens.
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But Gore's stridency and class warfare rhetoric were off-key.
Liberal and left-wing Israelis were shaken earlier this year by the stridency of a countrywide campaign against an old-established charity, the New Israel Fund, active in liberal causes among both Jews and Arabs.
In terms of the hearing itself, what struck me was the stridency of some of the questioning from Republican critics, his former colleagues and the focus on a war that this President ended over which we can all agree there is disagreement.
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