[Piquaboy]

The tearing down of him and his speech has already started.

[Mark Felton]

The tearing-down will be short-lived and quickly seen as shallow and self-serving.

The most a French journalist on CNN could do to tear it down was say that "Chirac and Bush agree on the goals, but they disagree on timing".

The most a German anti-American journalist could come up with was "but what about Sharon? The US must let the UN enforce resolutions against Sharon!".

very, very weak....and vaporous.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"Mr. (Ted) Turner, Tear Down This Speech!".... /sarc

[nathanbedford]

Watching the speech I was struck by the thought that the delivery was really quite good - paced and powerful.

Yes the tearing down will now begin, mostly by a thousand (celluloid) cuts. But it also occurred that Bush really has a gun in his holster which he can draw and fire when the democrat wannabees raise their heads above the ramparts.

I think it will be hard to permanently beat down his poll numbers when he can go directly to the people with a speech delivered with this power and effectiveness.