Even so, it was not Bush's best hour. He looked tired, distracted and on the defensive. This is how the voters will remember him going into the election. In the domestic policy debate Bush had better get his act together. Polls tomorrow will show the race tightening.
I remember Bush's speech on 9/11/01 as being rather weak and ill-prepared, but his speech nine days later will go down in history as one of the defining speechs in modern history. Wait until next week, this will give Bush a whole new level of forcefulness.