Don’t get me wrong - I don’t think this was a terrific speech or anything. But I do think that some bloggers and commentators are way off base with their vehement criticisms of it. It wasn’t bad. It was pretty reasonable, overall, and had some sections that I thought were actually very good.

If you just read it without knowing who gave the speech, and someone told you it was a speech by George W. Bush, I don’t think you would have been able to tell that it wasn’t.