[MinuteGal]

If you re-read the fourth paragraph of my post # 1453, you'll see that I DID NOT call for him to "hit the Dems harder", nor hit anyone else for that matter. Well-written speeches don't have to do this. The points are made rapier-like but with the utmost subtlety.

I agree that President Bush was speaking to rational Dems and members of the mushy middle. But his conservative base was listening, also. Were we incorrect in hoping he'd identify the enemy, how we're mopping them up, how cut-and-run talk at home demoralizes our troops in Iraq, how seditious leaks and divulging military secrets place our country in mortal danger, etc. instead of talking all around these points?

Sorry, his speech last night was barely memorable, and IMO many viewers like myself in the country were waiting for something better than they got. I can tell how run-of-the-mill the speech was by the plethora of posts here scrambling in every which way to make the speech and its stale points into something it was not.

My opinion ramains......this was not a brilliant speech, nor was it an awfully bad one. It was just blah. However, this is all a speechifying debate and open to disagreement depending on emotional resposes to contents of the speech itself. It could go on forever. In the long run, and no matter how articulated, the President's moral positions will always win out over those of his amoral and traitorous enemies. I remain, as ever, an ardent Bushbot FRiend,

Leni

[ohioWfan]

As long as you know that your opinion is just that.....your opinion, and that the majority of his base (judging by the reaction here), was fine with the speech.

I'm looking for more toughness in today's press conference. It's the appropriate place for it, IMO.

And here we go.........