Each year the President of the USA goes up to Capitol Hill to deliver the annual State of the Union.
This year was no different. George Bush delivered his State of the Union a couple of days ago with the usual flourishes [having rehearsed the speech and writers having worked on it for weeks] and dutiful members of Congress and the Senate clapped at the "right time" or gave the President a standing ovation. Great theatre! - even if short on substance.
Sadly much of what is said bears little relationship to reality. Lots of one-liners and platitudes! Remember the term "the Axis of Evil" which appeared in a State of the Union a few back?
In this article from AlterNet the writer slices and dices the lies and fabrications of George Bushs' latest State of the Union address.
Slate's Fred Kaplan's view of the speech is thus:
"George W. Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night may have been the oddest speech of his presidency, and that's saying a lot. At times he seemed locked in a time warp, as if momentous events of the past few weeks had never taken place. At other times he seemed adrift on some separate astral plane, describing a political landscape that simply doesn't exist in the world the rest of us inhabit"
This year was no different. George Bush delivered his State of the Union a couple of days ago with the usual flourishes [having rehearsed the speech and writers having worked on it for weeks] and dutiful members of Congress and the Senate clapped at the "right time" or gave the President a standing ovation. Great theatre! - even if short on substance.
Sadly much of what is said bears little relationship to reality. Lots of one-liners and platitudes! Remember the term "the Axis of Evil" which appeared in a State of the Union a few back?
In this article from AlterNet the writer slices and dices the lies and fabrications of George Bushs' latest State of the Union address.
Slate's Fred Kaplan's view of the speech is thus:
"George W. Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night may have been the oddest speech of his presidency, and that's saying a lot. At times he seemed locked in a time warp, as if momentous events of the past few weeks had never taken place. At other times he seemed adrift on some separate astral plane, describing a political landscape that simply doesn't exist in the world the rest of us inhabit"
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