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Live thread for the Restoring America Tea Party event and Sarah Palin's speech! SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (11am CDT - 2PM) Bands and vocalists Tea Party of America Co-founder Ken Crow will welcome the crowd and recognize veterans in attendance Bagpipe music from the Mackenzie Highlanders Pastor Warren Rogers of the Faith Church of the Nazarene in Des Moines will sing a hymn and give the invocation. Russ Saffell of the Des Moines Tea Party will lead the Pledge of Allegiance Carrie and Stacie Stoelting, two sisters from Iowa, will sing the National Anthem Simon Conway, conservative talk show host with...

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary August 31, 2006 Remarks by the President at 88th Annual American Legion National Convention REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT 88TH ANNUAL AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL CONVENTION Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, Utah 9:08 A.M. MDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. Please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's great to join you here in one of America's most beautiful cities. I appreciate your hospitality. I'm proud to stand before some of our country's finest patriots, our veterans and their families. (Applause.) And I'm pleased to call you...

President Bush to Hold 10 a.m. News Conference (Just Breaking No Info Yet!)

(snip) > I love how some FReepers believe putting a P.R. speech into context is propaganda: "CNN has not completed a fairly effective if formulaic set of pre-speech programming, intended to twist people's minds so that their mental filters interpret the President's speech as bogus," one person writes... (snip)

“This nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will take the fight to the enemy. We will defend our freedom.” – President George W. Bush, June 28, 2005.In his emotional speech last night to an assembly of soldiers at Ft. Bragg, NC, President Bush did something no commander-in-chief should ever have to do: assure the troops the American people support them, that their sacrifices are not in vain, and that their heroic service is keeping America free. His address should permanently quiet the leftist assertion that Iraq is not the “central front in the War on Terror.” To drive home...

President Bush told the nation last night that the war in Iraq was difficult but winnable. Only the first is clearly true. Despite buoyant cheerleading by administration officials, the military situation is at best unimproved. The Iraqi Army, despite Mr. Bush's optimistic descriptions, shows no signs of being able to control the country without American help for years to come. There are not enough American soldiers to carry out the job they have been sent to do, yet the strain of maintaining even this inadequate force is taking a terrible toll on the ability of the United States to defend...

Congressional critics of President Bush's stay-the-course commitment to the war in Iraq argued Wednesday that the administration lacks sufficient troops on the ground to mount a successful counterinsurgency. Democrats in particular criticized Bush for again raising the Sept. 11 attacks as a justification for the protracted fight in Iraq after the president proclaimed anew that he plans to keep U.S. forces there as long as necessary to ensure peace. Urging patience on an American public showing doubts about his Iraq policy, Bush mentioned the deadly 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington five times during a 28-minute address Tuesday...

Up to the Challenge A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released after last night’s speech by President Bush shows a very positive response to his message. 74 percent had a “positive reaction” to Bush’s speech. 63 percent now feel Bush has a “clear path” for Iraq, compared to 56 percent before the speech.

The inaugural address was in several respects confusing. The arresting feature of it was of course the exuberant idealism. But one wonders whether signals were crossed in its production, and a lead here is some of the language used. The commentators divulged that the speech was unusual especially in one respect, namely that President Bush turned his attention to it the very next day after his reelection. Peggy Noonan and Karen Hughes, speaking in different television studios, agreed that this was unusual. Presidents attach great importance to inaugural addresses, but they don’t, as a rule, begin to think about them...

The Detroit News' front page coverage of the inaugural speech includes four quotes from Michiganians about the speech. Two are pro-president Bush and two are anti-president Bush. "I thought he did a good job. He basically said freedom isn't free." Anne Stevens, 40 "I think the speech was outstanding. Bush seems to be in touch with the country's needs." John Hughes, 70 And then... "I think the entire inauguration for Bush... is a total waste of millions of dollars when we have people overseas serving in a war." Troy Williams, 19 "It's a little crazy to spend that kind of...

<p>Former White House political adviser and sometime presidential speechwriter Dick Morris praised President Bush's inaugural address Thursday night as the best speech in more than 40-years - and one of the top inaugural addresses in American history.</p> <p>"That was the greatest inaugural address since John F. Kennedy's and one of the five or six greatest of all time," Morris told the Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. "It was beautiful. It was poetic. Those of you who didn't see it missed a lot," the one-time Clinton advisor said.</p>

I missed the speech today....does anyone know where I can watch the video online? Thanks. Jim