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A certain trumpet: Bush's second inaugural speech--and its critics.(The Presidency)

National Review

| February 14, 2005 | Ponnuru, Ramesh | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

PRESIDENT BUSH'S second inaugural address, whatever else you think of it, was interesting. We are debating what it meant, and we will be debating the questions it raised for some time. President Clinton's second inaugural address, in contrast, was forgotten as soon as it was delivered. The most memorable line of that speech held that "nothing big ever came from being small." That comment itself was evidence of smallness--whether of the man or the times or both, I will leave for others to decide.

The president's idealist critics, often liberals, fault Bush for hypocrisy. He spoke about promoting freedom around the world, they say, but he has acquiesced in ...

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