>Reagan's was prayerful, measured manuscript<
Icon, I think you just hit your third hole in one!
>(Bush) Related only in a vague and haughty way to the problems staring him in the face<
Perhaps not "haughty" but definitely vague, "in the clouds," manner. Condescending maybe a better word. Why disguise the true identity of the enemy? That's where the speech lost the power it was building up to.
The President knows where his source of strength is. His speech was only 'condescending' if you are unaware of that fact. And only 'vague' if you cannot grasp its point.
He's been curiously evasive about this from day one. He's now expanded our "enemies list" from the "axis of evil" to 2/3 of the planet!
All of us that voted for him should be embarrassed by the sight of his father out trying to 'splain his overblown rhetoric!