Bush's Inaugural Speech

To start off with, the speech was undoubtedly deliberative. Not only did President Bush make it very clear that he had a particular thing he was trying to acheive for our nation and others, but all of his speech fell into a deliberative tone. Majority of his comments were directly focused on this "end" result of peace and liberty for all the world. My major criticisims were the redundency of the speech and the goal that lacked steps in acheiving that goal. As far as the redundency, I personally felt irritated listening to his speech and found it difficult to pay attention completely to what he was saying all the way through. I found myself questioning how many times can you find to say the same thing, but saying it in a different way. The issue of the goal without the steps to achive that goal was my most prevalent problem during the elections and debates as well. Both Bush and Kerry knew what they wanted to acheive, but neither really defined the steps to get there. As a political figure, especially the President, I beleive there is a responsinility in laying down the agenda in a clear fashion so that everyone knows what to expect for the next four years.
Bush's speech was very general, as were his uses of pathos. He gave just very braod and general ideas of pathos in his speech such as freedom, liberty, civil rights, slavery, and "we" as Americans. As for his use of ethos, he gave some religious references as well as past political figures such as Abraham Lincoln. He did however seem to play largely on the fact that he is the President of the United Staes, and that he has been for the past four years as well. The use of logos in his speech was also slim. He gave few instances of things that happened in the past and techinally indisputable references, however they again were very general.
Over all, his speech was fairly affective in expressing the goal he feels we as a country need to acheive, but I'm not sure it did much more than that.