Analysis of President Bush's State of the Union Address
Analysis of President Bush's State of the Union Address
“As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and our world faces unprecedented dangers—yet the state of our union has never been stronger.”
In the State of the Union Speech that President Bush addressed Tuesday evening was a strong, confident, powerful speech. From the beginning he made it clear and direct that the nation is still under attack. “That it may have won the first battle but the war, and the threat—is far from over.” And he emphasized that homeland security must be strengthened because thousands of terrorists remain at large.
What moved me from his speech was the fact that he acted like a President. He put all the politic competition and rivalries between parties behind him and showed that he really did care about the US. “We are not here to act as Republicans, Democrats but as Americans.”
The message he is trying to give out is that the September 11 tragedy is real, and serious. He warns us and tells us about the danger the US is in but that he is doing everything possible to keep us secure and win this war. He also informs us in how evil our allies are. Afghanistan has terrorist camps in preparing themselves to harm us and that there are thousands of terrorist here residing all over the US trained to destroy us. Even though he tells us this giving us a fright he also reassures us that we are in good control and that this tragedy has brought us as one expressing great patriotic spirit.
In order to keep our Economy well off he wants to provide and produce jobs for those that don’t have one and for those that have a business he wants to provide security for them insuring them that they won’t have to put all their hard work payments that they have saved for years to save their company. He wants to do this by continuing on cutting the tax payments.
He mentions that to develop a good community we should get involved in a volunteer program or help within our neighborhood etc for at least two years. He is also...