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Another check of the iTunes music store today and they have now posted the speeches from Thursday, including President Bush's! It is completely unedited (1 hour 2 minutes!). They are being made available as free audiobook downloads. Requires iTunes for Mac (OS X) or Windows (2000 or XP) (available here) plus an iTunes account. If you already have iTunes software and an account, clicking on the source URL for this thread should take you to President Bush's speech. Search "RNC" to find all 21 speeches available.  

Speech? What Speech? The networks curbed their enthusiasm. Conservatives are not in the habit of sitting down to the morning TV-news shows to get a boost, and they certainly wouldn't have felt a boost this morning. President Bush's speech was a second, maybe third or fourth, thought today. It might be understandable: A major hurricane is pressing on Florida, and a dramatic school-hostage crisis in Russia may be ending in gunfire. But even after all that, the networks were more enthusiastic doing an autopsy on the Kobe Bryant case than discussing the Bush speech. On the Friday after Kerry's speech,...

<p>Sometimes a strategist just has to sit back and gasp. Occasionally, a seasoned political observer needs to realize that he has seen something extraordinary.</p> <p>The Bush speech was akin to a State of the Union speech, surveying the landscape of American issues and articulating a proactive agenda for the next four years. But, like his stirring address to Congress in the aftermath of 9/11, he issued a ringing declaration for freedom, injecting the historic concept of freedom into the center stage in the 2004 election.</p>

I am betting that Peggy Noonan wrote GW's speech. Can anyone confirm this?

September 1: "Garden Party" The speeches: Last night, the speeches went from the sublime to the ridiculous. Governor Arnold Schwarzengger was simply electrifying, hitting all the right themes about what a great country this was, and how immigrants are welcome into this country and the GOP with open arms. He seemed strong, principled, optimistic - he was the anti-Kerry. No wonder he scored big. Unfortunately, the planning committee tapped the Bush twins to follow this act. Experienced public speakers would have had a hard time following Schwartzenegger and suffice it to say their inexperience showed. Their routine felt more appropriate...

September 3, 2004 -- THE world will little note nor long remem ber George W. Bush's speech last night. It wasn't his finest hour by a long shot, though it did feature a remarkably moving account of the sacrifices of the families of veterans who have fought for freedom since 9/11. "I am awed," he said, "that so many have used those meetings to say that I am in their prayers — to offer encouragement to me. Where does strength like that come from? How can people so burdened with sorrow also feel such pride? It is because they know...

Bush's national TV audience topped Kerry's speech at the Democratic convention in July by just over 3 million viewers, among those watching Big Three commercial networks ABC, CBS and NBC and the three leading cable news outlets -- Fox, CNN and MSNBC.

Sounds like they are looking at some of the early tracking numbers after Zell's speech the other night..

hen President Bush accepted his party's nomination last night, he energetically presented himself as the man who could keep America safe in a time of international terrorism. His handlers believe that is the key to his re-election. But if Mr. Bush intends to have a second term, he needs to do something more - particularly if he hopes to win by more than 500 votes this time. The president needs to speak to the large number of moderate voters who feel that things have been going in the wrong direction over the last four years, and convince them that he...

Fox News killed everyone in the ratings game for the RNC convention but how was their coverage? (Good, Fair or Bad)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A handful of protesters were arrested at the Republican convention on Thursday night as President Bush (news - web sites) accepted the party's nomination for another term, and thousands of people on the street near the convention chanted "No More Bush." One woman protester inside the convention arena took off her dress revealing a pink slip that said "fire Bush, women say bring the troops home now." The incident culminated of a week of demonstrations against the Iraq (news - web sites) war and other Bush policies in which at least 1,800 people have been arrested....

New York -- THE CONVENTIONAL talk about the Republican National Convention was that, like the Philadelphia convention in 2000, this would be a parade of moderates putting a kinder face on (what by implication is mean) conservatism. Instead the 2004 convention has been a parade of moderates and conservatives putting themselves on the line for President Bush because they believe that he is right about the most important issue before America today: The war on terrorism, which in this room includes the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. That sentiment was clear Thursday night when Gen. Tommy Franks...

* Former Senator Fred Thompson introduced President George W. Bush last night by describing the ceremonial first pitch that the President threw at Yankee Stadium at the opening game of the 2001 World Series. * It was shortly after 9-11. The country was still reeling. America was confused and disoriented. * The President walked out to the pitcher's mound and threw a strike. * All acceptance speeches are punctuated with cheering, with sign-waving, with chanting, and -- on television -- with planned close-ups of delegates, alternates, and guests who will punctuate pre-released words of the nominee. * Four years ago,...

Last night's Fred Thompson's presentation was awsome, does anyone know where the link is?

Everyone heard Bush say that some people think that he is too blunt. The Bush jokingly said, "You can blame the white haired lady", referring to his mother, Barbara Bush. One of the morning shows reported it as, "Bush blames his domineering mother for his bluntness". Just how could ANYONE with a ounce of fairness in their blood take the little joke and twist it to be something so negative? Anyone else catch this? Who was the reporter?

We here at crushkerry.com are former college football players (we're manly Republican men after all), thus we can relate to sports metaphors (a word Chrissy Matthews doesn't understand). So here's our take on tonight. Over the last 3 days the speakers gave President Bush great field position through the perfect mix of a gritty ground game and smash mouth defense (especially Zell). Still, it is up to the quarterback to guide the team into the end zone, and almost as importantly, to avoid turnovers and penalties. The result tonight - six easy points. Because of his field position a Hail...

......"The world saw that spirit 3 miles from here when the people of this city faced peril together and lifted a flag over the ruins and defied the enemy with their courage," Bush said. "My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell and here a nation rose." From the moment the convention proceedings began Thursday evening, strength emerged as a common beacon. Former Olympic star Dorothy Hamill, ex-professional football star Lynn Swann and an assembly of retired military leaders testified to...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Even before the balloons had stopped falling, President Bush hurried back to the campaign trail Friday to peddle the main message of his Republican convention speech: that he has the steadiest hand to guide the nation in perilous times.Accepting his party's nomination for a second term at the GOP convention in New York, Bush told roaring delegates and a national TV audience, "I believe this nation wants steady, consistent, principled leadership and that is why, with your help, we will win this election."Speaking from a circular stage emblazoned with the presidential seal, Bush asked voters to...

n an ordinary news day, CNN is like a sip of iced tea. Fox News is a gulp of Jolt Cola. It is the favorite news source of conservative-minded viewers, but Fox's anti-liberal sensibility is not its only draw. Even on matters as uncontested as the weather, Fox News's heart ticks to a faster, louder beat; it is a network that presents the news with pizazz and a frisky tone. ("Back to you, guys" is how reporters in the field address the anchors in the studio.) And its top commentators express a righteous indignation - mostly at the mainstream media,...

President George W. Bush has given us some of the most spectacular of speeches and now, on the same topic, the most incomprehensible of gaffes. President George W. Bush has given us some of the most spectacular of speeches and now, on the same topic, the most incomprehensible of gaffes. Speaking to the nation on September 20, 2001, while the fires under Ground Zero were still burning, Bush said, "The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us. Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat...