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Reaction to State of the Union Address
I doubt I was the only one who felt this way last night, but I found President Bush's State of the Union address to be an absolute farce.
It has nothing to do with "oh, I'm young so I must be a Bush-bashing liberal." It's just that I'm tired of his empty promises and his administration's ability to mislead the American people, be it regarding the economy, the war in Iraq or any number of issues.
It's reached the point where I can't even get angry anymore, I just have to laugh. I was especially fond of how he said there needs to be bipartisan cooperation to aid our economy, then follows that up with "but hey! If you don't do what I say, I'll veto whatever you put in front of me!" So I paraphrased a little there. But that was how I perceived it.
Towards the end of his address to congress, it seemed that Bush forgot what to say and just rambled the names of different countries to make himself sound intelligent or pretend that he actually planned on doing something about them. He mentioned Ukraine and how the people there have embraced democracy and free election. Um. Didn't that nation effectively shut down following a contested and allegedly rigged election? And wasn't that a while ago too?
Oh, and he also said we need to do something about Sudan. What did he say? Oh yeah. "Action needs to be taken in Sudan." Thanks.
Two last things I enjoyed about the State of the Union address. First, how the number of times Congress applauded, and how many people stood up to applaud, slowly but surely diminished as Bush continued to talk. Second, seeing the reactions (or lack thereof) of Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi to what Bush was saying.
Thankfully, this is the last time we have to sit through one of these with him.
Posted by
Brian McCarthy
It has nothing to do with "oh, I'm young so I must be a Bush-bashing liberal." It's just that I'm tired of his empty promises and his administration's ability to mislead the American people, be it regarding the economy, the war in Iraq or any number of issues.
It's reached the point where I can't even get angry anymore, I just have to laugh. I was especially fond of how he said there needs to be bipartisan cooperation to aid our economy, then follows that up with "but hey! If you don't do what I say, I'll veto whatever you put in front of me!" So I paraphrased a little there. But that was how I perceived it.
Towards the end of his address to congress, it seemed that Bush forgot what to say and just rambled the names of different countries to make himself sound intelligent or pretend that he actually planned on doing something about them. He mentioned Ukraine and how the people there have embraced democracy and free election. Um. Didn't that nation effectively shut down following a contested and allegedly rigged election? And wasn't that a while ago too?
Oh, and he also said we need to do something about Sudan. What did he say? Oh yeah. "Action needs to be taken in Sudan." Thanks.
Two last things I enjoyed about the State of the Union address. First, how the number of times Congress applauded, and how many people stood up to applaud, slowly but surely diminished as Bush continued to talk. Second, seeing the reactions (or lack thereof) of Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi to what Bush was saying.
Thankfully, this is the last time we have to sit through one of these with him.
Posted by
Brian McCarthy
posted by The Phoenix Files at
12:49 PM
5 Comments:
no one cares what you think about the president, please just blog about the latest store opening up on bridge street.
Call the WAAHHHmbulance.
The Phoenix - just another cog in the Democrat-Media Complex.
As for the so-called "misleading" on Iraq...
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." --Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." --President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." -- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." -- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
Shall I go on????
I guess Bush "misled" while Bill Clinton was president also. LOL.
Wow, someone in Phoenixville calling another person out on whining, talk about the pot and the Kettle.
“The FBI interrogator says that, while Saddam said he no longer had active WMD programs in 2003, the dictator admitted that he intended to resume those programs as soon as he possibly could.”
Again as for the so-called "misleading" on Iraq...
Below is a portion of an editorial in the WSJ on February 1, 2008 titled “Buried WMD Scoop”
Journalists are taught never to "bury the lead." Yet it looks as if that's precisely what CBS's "60 Minutes" did in reporter Scott Pelley's fascinating interview Sunday with George Piro, the FBI agent who debriefed Saddam Hussein following his capture in December 2003.
The Lebanese-born Mr. Piro, one of only a handful of agents at the bureau who speaks Arabic, was able to wheedle information from Saddam over a matter of months through a combination of flattery and ego-deflation that worked wonders with the former despot.
But as Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute first noticed, the most important news in the segment comes when Mr. Piro describes his conversations with Saddam about weapons of mass destruction.
Here's the relevant segment, which appears well down in the interview:
Mr. Piro: "The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there."
Mr. Pelley: "And that was his intention?"
Mr. Piro: "Yes."
Mr. Pelley: "What weapons of mass destruction did he intend to pursue again once he had the opportunity?"
Mr. Piro: "He wanted to pursue all of WMD. So he wanted to reconstitute his entire WMD program."
Mr. Pelley: "Chemical, biological, even nuclear."
Mr. Piro: "Yes."
Iraq's active WMD program had been destroyed, mostly by U.N. weapons inspectors, sometime in the 1990s, but Saddam told Mr. Piro that he maintained a pretense of having those weapons mainly to keep Iran at bay. This isn't exactly news. The key point is Saddam's admission that an Iraqi WMD program remained a threat so long as Saddam remained in power.
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