Bush & Gerson

Two days after winning a second term, George W. Bush told Michael Gerson that "I want this to be the freedom speech." And boy, was it ever. The word "freedom" appeared 27 times in the final draft. The word "liberty" appeared 15 times. 

Peggy Noonan wrote in her Wall Street Journal column that the speech left her "yearning for something she does not normally yearn for, and that is: nuance." 

If you want to read a speech that requires no imagination to understand what it is talking about, or at whom it is aimed, this is the one to read.