[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

He has undisputably led this country since Jan. 20th!

[PoisedWoman]

I checked out tapes of Reagan's speeches from the library last week and have been listening to them. IMO, Bush's speech is easily as good if not better than anything of Reagan's.

BTW, my liberal librarian curled her lip when she checked those tapes out to me.

[JohnHuang2]

Bump!

[holyscroller]

Thank God we were not listening to President Gore tonight. Isn't that a frightening thought! And Mad Maddie Half-bright bombing her enemies. We'd be in nuclear war by now.

[madison46]

Andrew has had some of the BEST writing since Sept 11th. Some of the best.

Hey Pokey, no more Jill or I'm going to be miserable for the next 4 weeks ;-)

Be with you Saturday from CA. RTR

[Plummz]

My cherished moment was when he rightly described this threat - and its twisted ideology - with the other great evils that have threatened freedom in the last century and before. "The unmarked grave of discarded lies" is a phrase that resonates deeply and truly.

I noticed he named as those evils in the last century, "Naziism, fascism and totalitarianism." Where was "Communism"? Did Uncle Prescott ask him not to cheese of the ChiComs by calling their twisted evil minds what they are?

Oh well, at least he didn't have the Congress stand and cheer their General Secretary.

[Timesink]

Somewhere, at this very moment, Al Gore is sitting on a sofa, eating from a giant tub of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream. And resolving never to shave again.

[AquariusStar22]

Andrew Sullivan has expressed so beautifully and succinently how we all feel about this speech tonight.

He also has a fabulous article in Salon on why liberals and other Bush bashers should give him a chance.

Tonight we saw a man grow to the stature of the awesome office in which he has been entrusted. After 8 years of a diminished presidency it was a moving and inspiring thing to see it's occupant elevate the highest office.

I always knew in my heart that GW would live up to the honor we gave him..but now I see that he will exceed our best hopes and expectations.

The makings of greatness are there.

[FReethesheeples]

Big Bump!

[1John]

I know I've posted this elsewhere, but this article is a particularly apropos place to say it again.......

In "Fate is the Hunter", Ernest K. Gann tells us of a fellow pilot with whom he had occasion to share a long flight.  The pilot's name was Park and he was from Texas....

"Park was what so many Texans think they are, or would like to be. He was long and lean and hard. His pale gray eyes belonged behind the sights of a gun barrel and his walk seemed wrong without the clinking of spurs. He was a shy man and quiet spoken, a wonderfully simple man and if he had any nerves I had yet to observe them."

And later.....

"Park's voice suddenly faded away as it often did when he had pronounced the meat of his thoughts; He had no use whatsoever for verbal trimmings."

I cannot imagine a better description of one of America's finest Presidents - George W. Bush.

[onyx]

Our President Bush is an honest man. God Bless President Bush.

[Storm Orphan]

Sullivan nailed it.

The only thing missing from the ultimatums to the Talibans was a hard deadline.

I know Bush will move fast as possible - I just want a countdown to look forward to.

[Poincare]

Small wonder that Hillary(TM) grimaced and sneered during the speech. Clinton who??