A speech to echo 'values we cherish' ????

[liberal N proud]

washingtonpost.com Highlights
By Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei

Updated: 2:05 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2005

White House officials said yesterday that President Bush's soaring inaugural address, in which he declared the goal of ending tyranny around the world, represents no significant shift in U.S. foreign policy but instead was meant as a crystallization and clarification of policies he is pursuing in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and elsewhere.

Bush advisers said the speech was the rhetorical institutionalization of the Bush doctrine and reflected the president's deepest convictions about the purposes behind his foreign policies. But they said it was carefully written not to tie him to an inflexible or unrealistic application of his goal of ending tyranny.

Conservatives laud 'historic speech'
Bush's grand ambitions excited his neoconservative supporters, who see his call to put the United States in the forefront of the battle to spread democracy as noble and necessary. "It was a rare inaugural speech that will go down as a historic speech, I believe," said William Kristol, editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard and a leading neoconservative thinker. He predicted the speech will drive policy for the rest of Bush's presidency.

But it has alarmed some critics, who say it suggests a major and potentially mistaken expansion of U.S. foreign policy goals or merely empty rhetoric. They have asked whether the speech's soaring language has any practical application as the president goes about the gritty work of day-to-day diplomacy, and, if it does not, what meaning does it have? Even some conservatives questioned the gap between ambition and practicality.

"Ending tyranny in the world? Well that's an ambition, and if you're going to have an ambition it might as well be a big one," former White House speechwriter Peggy Noonan, who wrote Bush's father's 1989 inaugural address, said in a Wall Street Journal column yesterday. "But this declaration, which is not wrong by any means, seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing. Tyranny is a very bad thing and quite wicked, but one doesn't expect we're going to eradicate it any time soon. Again, this is not heaven, it's earth."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6854454/

'values we cherish'????
soarin inaugral address????

:wtf: :puke:

[moobu2]

1. These people have lost their minds

Take this (from the article),

"Bush advisers said the speech was the rhetorical institutionalization of the Bush doctrine and reflected the president's deepest convictions about the purposes behind his foreign policies. But they said it was carefully written not to tie him to an inflexible or unrealistic application of his goal of ending tyranny."

Jesus, where the hell do they get this crap
:scared:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. First, can we please end tyranny in OHIO?

[Deja Q]

3. Historic... for what I fear will ultimately be all the wrong reasons.