You will notice that President Bush never mentioned himself once in that speech.
He referred to us, we and our.
God bless and keep him safe.
I cannot even imagine our current occupant of the White House giving a speech like that. And did you notice he was not using the teleprompters that were there? He spoke from his notes on the podium.
It's been too long since we have had a true statesman as POTUS, 3 years too long.
On the bright side, we were damn blessed to have Dubya' to get us through 9/11.
But I'm willing to forgive that because Clinton at the end of his speech did commit to raising the funds needed to complete the Flight 93 memorial.
And Biden actually was very gracious towards Bush's 9-11 response.
I'm sure that had heads imploding over at DU.