Divided We Stand, United We Fall
The one thing I can say about the alleged political nature of Bush’s 9/11 speech is that I’m not sure if it should be any other way. To drop all traces of political disagreements from a speech such as that is to attempt to find a lowest common denominator in which everybody can agree on. I suppose such is possible, but it would probably lead to an even more vacuous speech than I hear Bush gave. (I don’t make a habit of listening to what Bush has to say, as he doesn’t have much to offer.)
Divided we Stand, United We fall — because it takes too much coersion to make us “united”. Think about it.