Full text of (President!) Bush's inaugural address

The White House, via grandforks.com ^ | 1/20/05 | A great American

[Publius6961]

Monumentally unremarkable response. "...it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this".

I know and love history, and it shall be remain the proper arbiter.

This ``nonsense," he says, reflects ``the difficulty intellectuals habitually have in distinguishing between the state of their minds and the state of the world." And it reflects what has been called ``the parochialism of the present," which Harries says is ``a condition resulting from a combination of ignorance of history and an egotistical insistence on exaggerating the importance of events that more or less directly involve oneself.
--- Owen Harries, editor emeritus of The National Interest quarterly, as quoted by George Will, Dec. 24, 2001

[hosepipe]

[ For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny - prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder - violence will gather, and multiply in destructive power, and cross the most defended borders, and raise a mortal threat. ]

Ah! so the plan is to do little or nothing on the Mexican border.. I see.. Getting the feeling president Bush is a security threat himself.. whatever hes smoking I wish he would stop it..
Who is his supplier, Nancy Pelosi.?.

[Publius6961]

Not you again!!!!

You can always complain to the admins that someone has offended your tender sensibilities in your sandbox... again.

[Defender2]

I wathched the entire Inaugural Proceedings. President Bush's speech was simply Outstanding!!!!:-)


D2

:-)

[discostu]

Your first ping, congrats. Thought your internet was highly monitored at work.

[eureka!]

Re#31 Yep. Incrementalism works both ways. W & Co. know it and are doing it. Today is a great day. Gotta get to work now. Take care....

[shield]

OK...I'll try

[LurkedLongEnough]

"From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth."

Can't dispute that without digging a hole for yourself.

[Publius6961]

If you are of the opinion that the Laundry List is a more substantive speech, this reveals a lot about your view of the role of government.

Putting words in people's mouths for the sole purpose of criticizing those words is evidence of a quite lazy intellect.

[free_life]

Great speech by a great President..thanks for posting it

[LS]

My wife said that ABC this morning was positively dour! They were so unhappy and angry that she turned it to Fox---and for some reason she likes ABC's morning show (never understood it).

[TASMANIANRED]

bump

[LS]

Ummm, I've yet to see you post anything sensible, let alone anything that would upset a "sensibility."

[Publius6961]

spoken like a true america hating liberal

Wow.
And welcome to Free Republic.

[goodnesswins]

bump for later

[liberty2004]

there are all sorts of privatized "easter eggs" that are going to open in the near future.

I hope you are right, but History shows that governments VERY rarely let go of our hard earned tax dollars. It is rarer still to see government parasites (opps, employees) let go. I pray you are correct, but I feel Bush is going against very strong forces within our government. The very weak Rep leadership in Congress will be of little benefit. 95% of Congress doesn't have anywhere near the belief in Liberty as does Bush. I told my nephew 10yr ago that you hardly hear Presidents use the term Liberty. He is excited every time he hears Bush mention it. I pray to God Almighty that Bush can succeed in reducing government in our lives.

As William Wallace said, Liberty is the best of all things!

[scory]

It will go down as one of the great inaugural speechs because it is entirely focused on a universal ideal and exhorts all to aspire to achieving it. Further it does something that no other speech by an American president has ever done (that I know of) by stating clearly that the American Revolution is humanity's revolution and not just America's and that America is prepared to act on this premise. All through the cold war I was troubled by our backing of any regime no matter how reprehensible if it professed to be anti-Communist. It always seemed to me that the issue was freedom and not just Communism. President Bush has now stated flatly that the world's conflicts are about freedom and that America stands squarely with any people who aspire to be free. If Americans take this seriously and act on it (as President Bush as acted on it in his first term) it has the potential to be huge. Freedom is the key to fighting poverty, disease, ignorance and the suffering imposed by humans upon one another.

[Ironword]

. . . the words of the Koran, . . .

Mondo magnanimity, unrealistic and a great weakness, too bad . . . the angel in the whirlwind now stirs.

[ccmay]

Pooh! That is a speech for the ages.

I share your dim view of Islam as currently practiced, but can you not give the benefit of the doubt to Mr. Bush? He is on a mission to reform Islam into something compatible with modern life and human liberty. He has said as much, many times before.

The only other option, if we wish civilization to survive, is a new Crusade for the destruction of Islam by force. I don't blame the President for seeking honorable alternatives before taking that step.

-ccm