sotu
well, i don't have any super insightful thoughts into the state of the union speech. which is good, cos i'm on a sugar high right due to the fact that one of my coworkers has bowls and bowls of candy hearts on his desk, and i've eaten about half of them, and my eyebrows are twitching a lot. so anything i said would come off as an insane candy-fueled rant. which might not be that different from the way i usually come off, but let's pretend i'm not biased sometimes, okay?
anyway, i watched the speech with tommy and julie, and i didn't think it was particularly terrible, but it was in no way good. it wasn't confident - it was arrogant. it wasn't specific - it dealt in generals. it wasn't about inspiration - it was about inducing even more fear. and did anyone else see bush do that terrible terrible eye-brow raising/smirk thing a few times?? GAH! like, dude, i totally rocked that speech, heh heh. i did enjoy seeing hillary clinton look like she was about to puke, and the ted kennedy eye-rolling.
also moments of infuriation - spewing abstinence (do you think bush had premarital sex?); implying he would support a constitutional amendment on gay marriage; the oh-so-subtle use of "weapons of mass destruction....programs;" talking about the evil of STEROIDS?? where did that come from? wp notes that he spent twice as much time talking about steroids as he did social security reform.
the wp's editorial is pretty damning.
oh well, that was a little bit of a rant. in summary: it was a short-sighted simplistic speech that refused to deal with the serious problems and complexities that the nation is facing, and will face for a long time. i wish i had played a state of the union drinking game while watching. it would have numbed the pain.
la la. okay. i'm going to write another post today that has nothing to do about politics. i will instead rant about music.
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i, for one, didn't see the speech, because my boyfriend decided that cable (and i mean all channels) wasn't important enough to purchase. i swear he's the most un-anti-american guy i know. anyway, i can get a chuckle out of catherine's comment about hilary clinton and ted kennedy doing anything to make her happy. although i do believe that hilary clinton is smart as hell (smarter than her husband, some would say), she's made political mistakes. she'll never be president, and she probably had potential. as for ted kennedy...i mean, this is a guy who probably killed a young woman and covered up her death, yet because of his last name, people still adore him...how does this happen? and eye-rolling to the president...that's a bit much. maybe all of us have gone too far since the days of reagan and the country has now just made a mockery of the president. including republicans when the sex-hungry clinton was in office. i only hope that with the next election people will begin to respect the position of the president, regardless of whether they respect his opinions (or should is say, the opinions of his cabinet).
ok, catherine said no one comes to this site, so i figured i would share, since i read this.
carry on.
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