Scott McClellan, Mr Bush's press secretary, repeats banalities while trying to raise the bar for wrongdoing.
Mr Bush's proposed budget cuts are pretty feeble, but they might set that ball rolling.
In the end, it may not matter much whether Mr Bush's heart is really in hydrogen.
To some Canadians that seems awkwardly similar to Mr Bush's crusade to spread freedom.
That does not mean that Mr Bush should not be tough on some subjects.
Nobody knows for sure how Mr Bush's two appointees, Mr Roberts and Samuel Alito, would vote.
In today's 50-50 America, Mr Bush's main priority is to galvanise his half of the electorate.
As Mr Bush has noted, Mr Kerry's words do not always match his Senate voting record.
Mr Bush outdid previous Republican presidents in recruiting his personnel from the conservative counter-establishment.
Nor can conservatives claim that Mr Bush is a country-club Republican like his father.
Mr Bush's lead will have to narrow a lot, therefore, before such a slice becomes decisive.
Mr Bush is unlikely to restore it, unless Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the incoming president, embarks on reform.
Under Mr Bush and Mexico's new president, Vicente Fox, they could become less so.
Mr Bush urged all "those who seek peace... to dismantle the infrastructure of terror".
Members of Congress are likely to approve Mr Bush's request, albeit with a few shudders.
Mr Bush did not launch this war on behalf of the people of Iraq.
This gives Mr Bush the freedom to negotiate international trade deals on behalf of America.
Mr Fox accept an invitation to visit to Mr Bush's ranch in Texas in March.
Mr Bush sold himself to the American people as a new kind of conservative.
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There are several explanations, each of which has a different implication for Mr Bush's second term.
In Ohio, Mr Bush doubled his share of the black vote in 2004, to 16%.
But Mr Bush's trade team will take heart from this success for the bigger battles ahead.
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On the one hand, Mr Bush claims to be an uncompromising and direct leader.
Mr Bush would require half of all work-study funds to go on community-service jobs.
In response, Mr Bush produced, in the first half of his speech, a dutiful laundry list.
Mr Bush has pledged not to raise taxes, Mr Gore has kept his powder dry.
When Mr Schroeder eventually won, Mr Bush pointedly refused to place a congratulatory phone call.
The court heard that Mr Bush's prosthetic leg was removed after he was killed.
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