[RGSpincich]

Now I'm worried.

[PilloryHillary]

I just hope that there are millions more Democrats that have the same feelings Dick Morris does.

[Angry Enough]

He laid on us (the US) the mantle of a sacred and holy mission, our reason for existence. That's pretty big stuff, and 'substantive' just brushes the surface of what 'W' implied. For what it's worth, I think he's right. (Gen. 12 - "I will bless you so that through you all nations will be blessed.")

[ClearCase_guy]

In a speech that was at once eloquent and substantive, sensitive and dynamic, profound and familiar, Bush has risen to a level few presidents have ever reached.

Morris is not always wrong. I was bored at the beginning of Bush's speech -- it wasn't what I had been expecting. But that speech transformed itself as he went, and that man covered everything. It went a little longer than some expected, but it had to. I am amazed at what President Bush was able to accomplish in one speech.

[Lil'freeper]

George W. Bush has transformed the war into a battle for liberty.

You mean there was a time when it wasn't?? < /rhetorical >

[The Mayor]

Bump for President Bush!

[2banana]

I voted for Gore in 2000, as a true child of the Clinton era. But I decided to vote for Bush on Sept. 12, 2001 when I saw how he handled the threat we face. I used to back Bush because he offered safety; now I support him because he summons us all to an ideal. Before he spoke, supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor.

Holy Moley. Dick Morris is for Bush. I hope none of his "magic" rubs off...

[2banana]

I voted for Gore in 2000, as a true child of the Clinton era. But I decided to vote for Bush on Sept. 12, 2001 when I saw how he handled the threat we face. I used to back Bush because he offered safety; now I support him because he summons us all to an ideal. Before he spoke, supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor.

Holy Moley. Dick Morris is for Bush. I hope none of his "magic" rubs off...

[G Larry]

Thank you Dick, this was your finest editorial.

[Aetius]

Its hard to know what to think of Morris. I lost a lot of respect for his political acumen when he said that the GOP must nominate Colin Powell or Rice in 2008 or 2012 in order to broaden the appeal of the party because the GOP had 'run out of white people.'

How someone whose job is to know and study polls and election results can say that the GOP has run out of white people when W Bush got 54% of the white vote last time, versus 59% for his father in 1988, and 64% for Reagan in 1984 is beyond me.

Of course the GOP should strive to do better with non-whites, but they should also be active in trying to do better with their base.

[ThirstyMan]

a bid to assure safety..... George W. Bush has transformed the war into a battle for liberty.

A very good observation...and what's more, it's what is being done by our troops.

"Liberators" not occupiers.

Thanks Zell for leading us to higher ground! Now we must secure the future.

[xzins]

Advancing the banner of liberty.

I agree -- it is an honor.

This is Morris' best article. Fortunately, he doesn't predict anything in it. His predictions are normally exactly 180 degrees wrong.

[ImpBill]

I have had issues with GW's domestic agenda before and will in the future. Of that I am certain. Nuff said about that.

Last night President Bush not only reassured me he is the right man, for the right job, at the right time; he inspired me that he is indeed.

Besides the fact that we and the rest of the free world can't afford to have Kerry at the helm, Bush is indeed ---

The right man, for the right job, at the right time, and that time is NOW!!!

[PhatHead]

Does anybody know who Peggy Noonan is working for this year - because I definitely caught a whiff of Noonan in the tail end of that speech. "Buildings fell, and a nation rose..." etc. Anybody else share this assessment?

[cricket]

Wish Morris's first analysis was the uppper half of Drudge. . .

I thought it was an incredible speech that surely gave sharper contrast to the turkey-like Kerry shortly after; who looked even more cartoonish in his ramblings and with his inappropriate timing of his appearance.

Was more surprised by the commentating - even on Fox - where, for whatever reason; seemed unable to grasp just how 'great' GW's speech was; and just how great a leader we have in fact, in our midst.

Wondered if Brit Hume had taken allergy medicine or what. . .

[Shortwave]

"Before he spoke, supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor."

I love that line! Now it's my tagline.

[Savage Beast]

"He combined dignity and simplicity."

Yes, and elegance and sophistication. This is George Bush.

The elegance and sophistication of his dignity and simplicity are lost on the convoluted, hypernuanced pseudosophisticates of Europe and Democrat America. President Bush is to them as the simple, dignified, elegant, and sophisticated citizens of Athens of the Age of Pericles are to the decadent Romans of the failing and falling Empire.

[Vision]

I'm so tired of Morris. I think he's a know-it-all-know-nothing who changes his opinions like a hysterical woman. And like a stopped clock, he's right twice a day.

[McGavin999]

Bush has always spoken to our souls, it's just taken longer for some souls to hear it.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The speech satisfied every single political need. He contrasted with Kerry without appearing negative. He demonstrated emotion without pandering. He rose to a level of substantive specificity without becoming wonkish.

I know this is from Morris...but, it's still true ;-)