MY TAKE: For a man who's delivered more than a few spectacularly good speeches (National Cathedral, the impromptu on The Pile, the Address to the Joint Session of Congress, "freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to mankind...", the announcement of war with Iraq...) this one was just pathetic. Watching with David, we came up with two very trenchant observations, I thought: 1. It went on far too long-- the speech seemed designed to fit into a prime-time schedule. 2. The applause lines ruined the speech... especially since they seemed designed to fit into every 3rd line. and, while we're at it, 3. The fact that there was nothing in the speech that demanded it be televised. Someone smells Karl Rove taking the reins back from Paul Wolfowitz.
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