Here is the released text of the upcoming speech.
Wonder if any other speaker has used the speaker in the round set up for an acceptance speech?
Bush opened up with thanks to family.
He moved next to a simple recollection of 9/11.
Bush is now moving onto economic issues.
It is a bit of a laundry list and short on details. In particular is the commission on tax code simplification. Sounds good but can you give us a peak at what is on the table? Flat tax? Sales tax?
Now, he is onto health care. He is talking insurance portability and medical malpractice lawsuit reforms.
Okay, so this is being folded into this notion of the "Ownership Society." It is about owning your health care, home and retirement plan and having more control over your life.
Transitioning to education.
Bush uses Spanish to say, "We will leave no child behind."
Next up is health care for children.
This speech is turning into a bit of a State of the Union laundry list.
He gives a brief counter-punch at Sen. Kerry.
He is now hitting the hot button social issues. He mentions protecting the unborn and protecting the institution of marriage.
Bush is seizing on the conservative values theme and pointing out that Sen. Kerry isn't a conservative.
Bush is now back on the war on the terrorists and restates his determination.
The camera has panned over to apparently the security people pulling somebody out of the auditorium. What the heck? What kind of security do they have here?
It is happening again. Another demonstrator is being ushered off.
I suppose they can get in but as long as they don't carry anything dangerous.
Bush is talking the future of Afghanistan and Iraq and the hope of democracy over in those lands.
He now speaks directly to the soldiers and their families and thanks them for their sacrifice in liberating the oppressed peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq.
There is that famed I voted for and then against the $87 billion Kerry flip-flop.
Bush thanks the world leaders who have supported the liberation of Iraq and chides Sen. Kerry for saying they are the coalition of the bribed.
The theme now is on liberty and freedom throughout the world and thus making all safer.
Some self-effacing humor about his mangling of English, the swagger which Texans call walking and then his straight talk which he thanked his mother for.
Now, he is speaking movingly of the military families he has met and extols the character of the American people.
He tips his hat to the New Yorkers: here buildings fell, here a nation rose.
"To everything we know there is a season — a time for sadness, a time for struggle, a time for rebuilding. And now we have reached a time for hope. This young century will be liberty's century. By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America. Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom. This is the everlasting dream of America — and tonight, in this place, that dream is renewed. Now we go forward — grateful for our freedom, faithful to our cause, and confident in the future of the greatest nation on earth. God bless you, and may God continue to bless America."
Instant analysis: A "B" effort. Bush is most moving speaking about the stakes of the war against the terrorists and linking the progress of liberty abroad to security at home. His jabs against Sen. Kerry were perhaps a little bit much but certainly nothing like the fire and ice of Zell Miller and VP Cheney last night. The domestic part was a bit cut and pasted. The "Ownership Society" theme could have been more clearly announced.
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