If You Missed the Speech...

I am somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I fell asleep last night long before the President began his historic Convention speech. Blame it on a 5 AM wake-up call, and the fact that I know I'll be hearing pieces of the speech over and over again in the next couple of months. But if you also missed it, here is a copy of the text of the speech.

To everything we know there is a season — a time for sadness, a time for struggle, a time for rebuilding. And now we have reached a time for hope. This young century will be liberty's century. By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America. Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom. This is the everlasting dream of America — and tonight, in this place, that dream is renewed. Now we go forward — grateful for our freedom, faithful to our cause, and confident in the future of the greatest nation on earth.

I have no idea how it came across in person, but in writing it is an excellent speech. My only criticism from reading it, is that it is a bit too vague on what kind of tax reform Bush would provide. Flat Tax? National Sales Tax? Same As Now But Fewer Loopholes? Poll Tax? I never considered "We gotta do something" to be a "policy."