As part of a larger analysis of President Bush’s inaugural address last week, NewsMax.com outlines the remarks made by some old media pundits which I though were interesting.
Pundits have been working overtime trying to put the speech into the context of history:
NBC’s Tim Russert: “Well-crafted, well-delivered. The themes of freedom and liberty … I thought the call to national service will resonate with all Americans — Democrats, Republicans and Independents.”
CBS News’ Bob Schieffer said the speech was “eloquent and the rhetoric lofty.”
ABC News’ George Will: “It’s not just the survival of liberty he’s about. He is about the expansion of liberty into every nook and crevasse of the planet.”
Howard Fineman of Newsweek called the address “Powerful. I think it is the biggest statement of American purpose in the world of any president I can think of. It is Woodrow Wilson on steroids. It’s big.”
Dick Morris, former aide to President Clinton, said the address “was the greatest [inaugural address] … since John F. Kennedy’s and one of the five or six greatest of all time. It was beautiful, it was poetic … and it articulated a bold new doctrine for American policy. It was a very substantive speech.”
Robin Wright of the Washington Post told Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” Sunday: “It’s interesting how the second administration really is redefining the war on terrorism to a war to achieve liberty and to go after the regimes whose unjust rule has led to resistance and the emergence of Islamic extremism.
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