"How cool would it be to give a State of the Union address in a Porter Wagoner outfit?"
- Bush, ever respectful about his job as our leader
Bush gave quite a performance last night. If he was onstage at the Apollo, I might have laughed instead of shuddered.
I find it odd that he calls anyone who questions one invasion of a nation, even one run by a sadistic butcher, and turning into Terrorist Recruitment Center Prime can be considered an isolationist. Now, some of you GOP drones may latch onto that as gospel as you usually do; but let's parse this a bit. Bush, who ignored the rest of the world's opinion, pushed aside the UN, cobbled together a coalition that continues to unravel, invaded a nation based on doctored intelligence and outright lies, has the audacity to call people isolationists for questioning his motives and actions?
Wait a minute, is he a Republican? The party pretty much had isolationism as it's primary party platform? The party that didn't want us fighting Germany in BOTH World Wars? That wouldn't let us put ground troops into Yugoslavia to stop ethnic cleansing? Or to send ANY resources into Africa to stop the same thing from happening? A REPUBLICAN gets a free pass to label people isolationists? That's utter BS kids.
The other thing that got me to cringe was Bush's "America is addicted to oil" line. Look, this guy holds hands with Saudi despots. He's a failed oil baron himself. He creates national policy with the help of energy felons. He's against damn near any kind of science we've got. Yet, he dares scold us for our energy usage, which his cronies help design. It is exactly like a drug pusher telling his customer, "Say, it seems you have a slight crack habit."
More on the SOTU, including a primer for translating Bush's NewSpeak, plus an open letter to Bush from Rep. John Murtha.
More on the loss of our freedoms, including a collection of stories about T-shirts and free speech and one librarian who stood up to the FBI. Plus, another story about WalMart being its usually draconian self when it comes to denying birth control to women.
One more sign of these modern times: Western Union no longer sends telegrams.
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