Bush's Speech: Only 5 minutes?!

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Anyone feel assured by Bush's speech?

It is definately not a "Day in Infamy" speech....

I don't think Bush did a good job of assuring America and calming them and assuring that direct measures will be taken...

I feel that if Clinton or another president was up there, they would go on much longer, but they would ease America's consciousness


.. I don't know.. but I do know that the speech was too short for a matter this important.

Transcript of Speech
 
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isekii

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it's not really the length of the speech .. but what he said.

if he went on and on with senseless BS then it would have meant really nothing..

I think he did a great job.. during his speech to the People in the US..
 
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I thought he did a great job.

He could have rambled on about stuff we already know, but he didn't. He kept it to the point, and I think it was delivered well.
 
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"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

The best line of a good speech. It certainly helped me feel better.
 
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Capn

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Pavelow, and the most important line in the speech. I.E. note to afghanistan, yemen, whoever else "Help us, or you can go to hell on the same cruise missile Bin Laden will be traveling on"

Those criticizing Bush's speech, what would you like that he added? A subjective rating of "clinton would've made me feel better" doesn't really hold any water no offense. Do you want more details about american retaliation or rescue efforts, or.....?
 
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I'm FAR from being a Bush supporter, but i think he did a decent job. What else did you feel was left unsaid?

Personally, i would have loved to see some more emotions coming out of him.
 
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the day of infany speech was a request for a declaration of war not a reassurance for the people, bush did an excellent job at what he was doing and deserves the full support of all americans
 
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IcemanJer

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not a bad speech.. I heard it was ad lib?
I thought the best line was about hunting down those responsible for this cowardly attack.
 
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<< not a bad speech.. I heard it was ad lib?
I thought the best line was about hunting down those responsible for this cowardly attack. >>



i saw him read the entire speech. (through the see through thingy.. it was obvious he was reading)
not that it makes a difference
 
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boring and uninspired...

Bush does best when NOT using a prompter, and when not in the Oval Office... A speach from one of the Air Force bases without a prompter would have been better IMHO...

Jason
 
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What exactly did you want him to say? Did you want him to summarize what happened today or something? The media has already been doing that all day.

I'm not really a Bush supporter but I liked the speech.
 
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<< "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

The best line of a good speech. It certainly helped me feel better. >>

That just makes me more uneasy... does that mean we go in any nation that is rumored to have him and just bomb the hell out of it? even with protest again the world community? I think that we need to get together as a nation, and as a world to have a world wide support against international terriorism....
 
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Muadib

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That just makes me more uneasy... does that mean we go in any nation that is rumored to have him and just bomb the hell out of it? even with protest again the world community? I think that we need to get together as a nation, and as a world to have a world wide support against international terriorism....

If it's proven that he's responsible, you damn skippy it does. Violence is the only thing he and his supporters seem to understand. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
 
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Wow, i just watched the speech of condolescences from Prime Minster Blair of Britain, and it was sooo much more emotional than Bush.
 
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<< Violence is the only thing he and his supporters seem to understand >>



Can't remember who it was but someone released a statement that we have to remember the difference between revenge and justice.

I dunno about the speech, it wasn't the worst thing he has released but I dunno every other country has a president who *somehow* manages to conveyr emotion or at the very least memorize or read their speeches with clarity. Bush spoke 3 words at a time, it made me feel like the speech was just something quick and irrelevant to him.
 
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I was rather disappointed in the speech as well...

It seemed more that he was saying these things themselves because someone wrote it up for him to read rather than saying thing straight from his feelings... Of course, that's just my opinion...

I too think it would have been better outside the oval office in an ad libbed style. Here, he looked too much like Al Gore :).
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You may be correct that the speech was not as elequent as it could have been. But put yourself in his shoes...

President Bush has the job of protecting the 280million Americans in the US. That's a big task. Would you rather have him spend more time speaking to the nation in order to calm them down and make us feel safe, himself not being fully informed of all the gathered info? Or would you rather have him speak to Congress and other gov't officials/military to figure out how to keep us safe?

I don't know about you...

but I'd rather be safe...than feel safe...

---Ty
 
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Czar

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The lenght of it doesnt matter, it had the correct impact on people.

Though it was like some 15 year old had written it and was reading it to the class, absolutely no talent for public speech.
 
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bbqweed

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slective service is one of the last resorts...

I believe it is like this:

1st=national guard
2nd=active enlisted
3rd=active reserves
4th=selective service

of course ground troops are pretty much last, i believe...

first national guard
then air support (Air Force, Navy Jet Fighters)
next Navy, Marines
next, ground troops ---army
lastly...if need be...selective service.....

Plus don't forget that Russia, France, and Australia has expressed their full support for the US...


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<< like some 15 year old had written it and was reading it to the class >>


That may be true...but don't forget the stats that state the average REAL reading ability of MOST americans is somewhere around the 4th grade level...and newspapers are written the same way...Simple and short, thats how it should have been...


 
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Czar

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Did anyone catch the speech Tony Blair gave? now that was a extremely good speech.
 
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