[Spiff]

I'd like to ask all those claiming this was a persuasive speech - what was the difference between what the president said this time, and what he said last time? He says we need to ratchet down the rhetoric, and have a debate, but he has budged not one inch from where he began on this issue.

VERY little new substance. Mostly a repackage of the same old stuff that conservatives and Republicans have already rejected. It is obvious that the only message that the President has got on this issue is that he had to find a new way to sell it. He's learned nothing.

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Full transcript just posted:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060515-8.html