What Americans want from Bush is better moral leadership, not radically different policies. That's about as partisan as the speech ever got. Bush also drew a contrast with his predecessor. America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. As in the case of a President who, on his last day in office, concluded an immunity deal in which he acknowledged lying under oath.
Character is an old-fashioned word.
It's rarely part of the language of baby boomers and yuppies-Bush and Clinton's generation. But Bush and Clinton come from opposite sides of that generation. Any Democrat could have said that. There was a lot more compassion than conservatism in Bush's remarks. The compassion was in the language.