[beyond the sea]

I pretty much agree, but some here earlier have explained to me that it was a "lay out the facts type speech" (post # 642 was very excellent). I'll go with that, but I was hoping for something with a spark near the end.

I've listened to a few fair-minded people speaking of G.W.'s speech in the past two hours on the media, and they were far from impressed.

I've watched G.W. make great speeches and make really poor ones, and I've seen him do badly in interviews. But he is what he is. It just seems that he is so inconsistent in his delivery.

But maybe we should wait for his next speech on this tragedy for him to rally the country.

[txrangerette]

It wasn't a "speech". It wasn't meant to be a "speech". I liked it. It was what I was looking for from him at this time in that setting.

Delivery? Spark? Good Grief. He "looked and sounded exhausted"? What if he truly was those things? What was he supposed to do then? Go hide and refuse to appear until he felt all rested and perky?

Others have given you a pass, the benefit of the doubt and all that. I don't. You're as off base as you can get, as inappropriate in your ivory tower, distant critiques as possible, in my book.

And that goes for the people you say were "far from impressed" with the "speech" (which was not a "speech").