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January 28, 2008
More Of The Same
Well, President George W. Bush's final State of the Union Speech is in the books. He may as well have just read one of his previous efforts. Call it consistency; call it total obliviousness; but Bush is now the presidential equivalient of a traveling salesman selling encyclopedias in the digital age. He's hocking outdated crap that noone's buying.
After paying brief lip service to the country's troubled economic situation, Bush launched into his tired wish list of goodies for ideological conservatives, an agenda he couldn't advance back when he had poltiical capital to spend, much less now as a lame duck stalled at 30% approval in the polls. No wonder he defensively declares he's still relavent.
The pomp and circumstance that SOTUS provides always offers some entertainment, and there was that, but to consider the stale substance of the speech itself, in light of all that is happening at home and abroad is simply sad. An economy in trouble, a mortgage crisis, spiraling health care and education costs, and a disastrous war in Iraq all deserve serious attention, and beg for fresh ideas. Instead, George Bush offers faith-based institutions and banning cloning - wow.
Lucky for him, nobody watched.
Posted by houtopia at January 28, 2008 09:43 PM
Comments
I believe George Bush did make an honest speech once in his life. That was serveral years ago when speaking before a group of wealthy individuals he joked: "You are my base." But it seems to me that he has done almost everything within his power to make his words ring true and support these people. On CNBC a few weeks ago someone commented that serveral months ago the President was saying that the economy was good, and to keep it going we need more tax cuts. Now the economy is suddenly duing poorly and his answer is: we need more tax cuts. Bush seems to have played his White House tenure with only two cards in his hand for every situation: Tax cuts or JDAMs.
Posted by: ChrisR at January 29, 2008 01:20 PM