State Of The Union Address
All in all, I thought Bush covered a wide variety of topics that needed addressing and on the whole, I thought this was one of his better speeches.
The ovations for the Iraqi voter and parents of the US Soldier were particularly moving too.
Thoughts? Comments?
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I missed it, unfortunately. Eh... It was probably all lies anyway.
Bush... what a creative man. He uses negative images to convey emotions of fear through the people, making it seem like we're still in danger and he is our only salvation... If only that were true, then I wouldn't mind having him in office, but what is true, is that he is the danger.
I didn't see it, so I'm not quite sure what all he said. I'll have to look around and see if I can't scrounge something up.
I spent 5 minutes watching it. Only because there's a tv in the kitchen and only because it took me 5 minutes to finish my dinner.
*yawn* @ Bush.. yeah yeah yeah.. "talking it over in N. Korea" and killing more terrorists.. yada yada.. >_> I'd rather read the paper the day after than actually watch him talk about it.
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I'm too tired to get into the whole thing, but I will say that I fully support Bush's proposed social security reform.
Yup.
I lost my opinion in bush. Mind you, it was a negative one, but I honestly dont really give a damn anymore. I watched the first half of it, and then ate some icecream. When you start eating icecream, thats when you know you lost your interest
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Looks like Dubya takes a leaf from someone else's book...
Bush = Goering? Hmm...
I didn't see it. I can't stand to look at him for more than 5 minutes.
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I'm not saying that Bush is a Nazi, but I am saying that you shouldln't let fear clould your judgement of your leaders' actions.
No talk of Bin Laden??? Maybe hes stopped caring. Anyways he turned the audience into cheerleaders, that stood and clapped so they wouldnt appear to be non-supportive of Iraqs recent vote. I doubt anybody was actually moved or unaware of anything he said. IT was all politics.
"I clap when i agree, i stand when i am moved."
Though it's been common pratice to see a lot of those clapping breaks during the State of the Union, I got a kick out of hearing the Democrats shout "No!" at Bush when he was talking about Social Security Reform.
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I am repeatedly amazed at how often Bush will say the exact opposite of what he really means. Of course, if he said what he really meant (like "My party has been plotting to destroy Social Security for decades because the Democrats came up with it and it works") then he wouldn't be very popular.
I watched about a third of it; I couldn't stomach any more of it. I was repulsed by how he used that dead soldier's family for political gain. Granted, that was virtually the end of the speech, which was good for him, because if it hadn't been, I'd probably have turned off the television in disgust.
eest: http://www.livejournal.com/~ludickid/356149.html
Social Security will no longer be a viable entity within 15 years anyways because there's a huge mass of American population that will be of the age to retire and start drawing their money from Social Security and it will be unable to fund them. <-- unrelated note.
didn't catch it, all State of the Anything addresses are boring and usually fairly repetitive anyways so I don't feel I missed much. Only president I was actually able to pay any attention to whatsoever was Regan, which is really saying something given I was a very small child when he was in power. It was the height of political lies but he could make you think he really cared about what he was saying and was speaking directly to you. Actors make as good of presidents as anybody else. better probably because they're better at lying.
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