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January 20, 2004

Bush's Plea for Reelection Address ie. State of the Union

This is from chat I had with Obigabu as he was writing this entry on the State of the Union address.

Wonko : Its all such smoke and mirrors at this point. They started writing it in October of last year.

Obigabu: The speech wasn't that bad. I mean it only had a handful of crazy crap.

Wonko : Its not that its good or bad, its that its calculated and not honest. It was written to have as many people as possible say, "It wasn't that bad."

The state of the union has no actual relationship to facts. Its not like they looked at what they were doing and tried to figure out a way to say it. They figured out what people wanted to hear (the greatest number of people) and twisted what they had done into verbal images that the masses would be happy with.

I am being 100% honest when I say the State of the Union bears no relationship to anything the president has done or will do.

And its not just Bush, its any president. In 1998 Clinton said in his speech, "The age of big government has finally ended." There was HUGE applause, it was what everyone wanted to hear. They'd all forget anyway.

Its all horseshit. Its just another election speech at this point. It isn't a coincidence that he's giving the speech the night after the Iowa caucus and just before the New Hampshire one.
He could have hired any writer to write it, even if that writer had no idea what Bush had done or was planning on doing.

Call me cynical, but its the honest to god truth and if you or anyone you know believes anything otherwise, your just fooling yourself, or more to the point, letting yourself be fooled.

Posted by wonko at January 20, 2004 09:56 PM

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