Bush's Political Speech

As most of the Presidents in American history, Bush integrated religious words in his political speeches by using the evangelical sounding language on the stump in order to serve his foreign affairs. The central theological belief informing that all Bush’s foreign policies were meant to fulfil God’s will and that America has been divinely called to spread the gift of liberty. This idea was important during Bush’s 2000 Presidential operation who stated that: “our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world” (Wimberley: 8). Bush reaffirmed this theme in his 2003 State of the Union address who declared that: “Americans are a free people who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, but God’s gift to humanity” (ibid: 8). Throughout these two speeches, Bush affirms his theological call which insists that if liberty is a gift given by God to mankind, it is so necessary for all Americans to bestow that gift through free trade in the global market. Because free trade promotes the exercise of free choice in the market place. In doing so, President Bush wants to maximize the benefit of the world’s resources through the open and the free markets in the interest of spreading God’s gift of liberty to all people.
Bush meant to reward the evangelicals for they put trust on him and helped him to hold the presidency through using the evangelicals’ languages and sounds to deal with his foreign