We also saw the crown jewels and a videotape of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. As my son and I watched the inauguration on television last Saturday, I told him how we don't need any crown jewels. Bush spoke of. We may indeed be a flawed and fallible people, but the nation's power and authority rest with us, not with some monarch. That may be the greatest line of Bush's speech.
Every TV commercial is aimed at our insecurities.
Just buy a Polo shirt or a Lexus and the world will know that you are significant. That's not the kind of significance Bush is talking about, and it's refreshing to hear someone say it. I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. This is the only time in the speech that Bush referred, even indirectly, to race. He has acknowledged that he must work hard to reach black Americans, who were not fooled by the window-dressing diversity of the Republican National Convention and who voted against him overwhelmingly.