Observations on the State of the Union
Posted on January 21, 2004 @ 2:37 pm
Just a few things that occurred to me while watching last night’s State of the Union address:
- President Bush has improved quite a bit as a public speaker over the course of the past few years. On the other hand, he really could have used a haircut before his speech last night.
- Didn’t it seem odd that President Bush’s comment praising community colleges received one of the longest and loudest ovations of the evening? I mean, I’m all for community colleges and everything, but that seems like an odd issue for the crowd to get riled up about.
- I couldn’t help but chuckle when the Democrats interrupted President Bush to cheer as he noted that certain provisions of the Patriot Act would be expiring in the upcoming months.
- Ted Kennedy looked like he was either suffering from indigestion or really needed to go to the bathroom whenever the camera cut to him. Of course, partying too hard before the big speech will do that to you.
- Who’s idea was it to talk about steroid abuse in professional sports during the State of the Union address? I can just imagine the speech-writing meeting now: “Let’s see — we have time to talk about six issues. How about foreign affairs, homeland security, healthcare, the sanctity of marriage, education, and…steroid abuse!” Then again, Bush has spent more of his career running a baseball franchise than he has running a country, so maybe it’s understandable. Still, I just couldn’t help but feel like he was going to segue into talking about his Super Bowl picks at any moment.
Meanwhile, since I’m already blogging about politics, there’s been a folder full of Dennis Kucinich campaign materials — bumper stickers and so forth –sitting around our graduate lounge at school for the past few weeks with a note above them proclaiming him “the next President of the United States.” Today, I noticed that someone had marked out the “President of the United States” part and replaced it with “audio/visual club.” Heh.
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1)dubya is the flesh and blood incarnation of the most vile and disturbing evils that hell has to offer.
2)i’m surprised he managed so well with those big polysyllabic words.
3)do we, as americans, not deserve a decent third choice other than w and dean (which im still convinced it will come down to)
oh well
4)i think that dubya’s campaign slogan should be “we couldn’t possibly fuck the world up any more than we did the last 4 years! or could we?”