Posted on 01/20/2005 9:21:56 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
The Koran does contain a lot of decent moral teachings (I believe). Unfortuntately, it is mostly restricted within the umma. I.e. be nice to muslims. Don't kill muslims. etc etc. Like Judaism it is a very us-against them sort of faith.. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Great speech btw. Brought teers to my eyes.
Freedom vs Submission
It's going to be a bloody fight.
exactly
Well said, clean the stables at State.
It was a great speech: visionary, philosophical, historically grounded. I think it will stand the test of time, and be studied and restudied many years from now.
ABC was unhappy and angry? What would you expect from a news organization opposed to Bush's re-election?
Hehehe. Yeah. Mine is made by the same guy who made Col. Killian's "special" typewriter.
Will we be able to have the freedom to, say, decide whether or not we want to wear a seatbelt?
Will we be free to choose our own toilets, or will we still be considered criminals for smuggling in Canadian units that actually work well?
Will motorcyclists be free to wear a helmet, or not, as they see fit?
Will residents of Washington D.C. (from whence emanated the big platitudes) be free to possess weapons to defend themselves from thugs dwelling in that hellhole? Or Chicago? Or New York City?
Will we be free to escape crooked Ponzi Schemes like Social Security entirely, or will we still be chained to a dying scam?
Will we be free to live our lives as we choose if we're not harming others?
But see, this is all the easy stuff by comparison. We could start with the easy stuff. Or not.
Oh, wait. He's talking about freedom for other countries. Never mind.
Amen.
He only used the word "democracy" once, but used "liberty" nine times by my count.
He seemed like a different person today.
LOL. Funny and true.
And what % of the entire "Islamic" population is radical?
Exactly! That's what was so good (and so unusual) about it.
We really haven't heard any philosophical speeches by a president since JFK and Ronald Reagan.
I am glad so many liked the speech so much, but I found myself quite underwhelmed, particularly compared to his first inaugural address and his speech to Congress after September 11th and when I consider these historic times in which we live.
In regard to the reference to the Koran, I do think the correct choice would have been not to mention it. I doubt anyone would have thought anything of it. But the way he mentioned it was a slap in the face to every American who has suffered at the hands of those who follow Islam.
I agree, but you're too kind.
It was a speech that shouted the bullying hubris of a challenge to half the planet to shape up or face our wrath, but, once again it displayed the shameful timid failure to actually name our preeminent enemy.
IMHO, It fell somewhere between nonsense and national shame.
Keep the bread, circuses, and body bags coming!
And I am ever so thankful that this task has fallen on President Bush, and not on Senator Kerry.
This is one of the greatest inaugural addresses ever!
In the end, GWB will have two monumental legacies:
1. He will have begun and fought the War on Terror and, in the process, have propagated freedom over much of the world.
2. He will have begun the reforms that will lead to greater individual liberty and economic freedom (and, with it, prosperity) in the United States -- by way of these "easter eggs" to which you so aptly refer.
George W. Bush will be celebrated as one of our greatest Presidents, forever associated with Freedom and Ownership. He will have changed the country...and made it better.
(edited closing remarks by W)..........."I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE RATS FOR A REALLY BOLD ATTEMPT TO FOOL THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, WHOM WE ALL KNOW ARE BUMBLING IDIOTS AND CORN SHUCKERS FROM THE MIDWEST." (Camera pans crowd as Slick Willie, and Jimmy Carter, look at the ground with their wives spewing daggers of contempt for the current occupants of the White House)............
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