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Mr. Bush goes to the presses
Apr. 13th, 2004 10:15 pmI can't remember a speech where I both laughed out loud and exprienced crushing pessimism at the same time as much as I did during this insane hour.
Lessons learned:
His speech is as bad as people always say. I stopped counting the mistakes, and they were all hard ones either--- using plurals, for instance.
He truly does believe he is following God's will by using American power to invade. He has a scary righteousness. Hello messaiah complex.
Other comments:
He still repeats himself like crazy.
Last time I watched the State of the Union I mentioned that he never answered a question, only used the subject matter or topic within the question to launch into a commentary on that topic...never actually providing an answer. I think he did that with about 75% of the questions asked of him tonight. He only actually replied to about 1/4 of them with answers, even vague ones.
A few times his befuddled reaction and repetitive nonsensical ramblings actually made me laugh out loud. "I deal with terrorism a lot." :snort: Other times I just stared at the television with my mouth open, and asked "What he hell is he talking about?" or "That doesn't even make sense!" And I don't mean his forgivable vocal skills, I mean his train of thought and complete statements. Some of them just did not work.
He used Reaganisms several times. "Stay the course" was mentioned 3 times overtly, and more in synonymous language.
I was really bothered by his inability to admit to a mistake... even one. When pressed he could not name one single thing he did since 9/11 that he considers a mistake or failure. That bothers me, because either he thinks he has made no failures, or his failures are so bad that he doesn't want to bring them up at all.
I don't like the revisionist speech he uses when talking about our motives in invading Iraq, nor do I like the way he says "spreading freedom in the Middle East" as his personal mission, ordained by god. I also dislike the word "spread." Freedom doesn't "spread." It... erupts. It's an amazing idea that comes from within you, not from other people. It can be forced on you, you have to want it, or be born to it and want to keep it.
Lessons learned:
His speech is as bad as people always say. I stopped counting the mistakes, and they were all hard ones either--- using plurals, for instance.
He truly does believe he is following God's will by using American power to invade. He has a scary righteousness. Hello messaiah complex.
Other comments:
He still repeats himself like crazy.
Last time I watched the State of the Union I mentioned that he never answered a question, only used the subject matter or topic within the question to launch into a commentary on that topic...never actually providing an answer. I think he did that with about 75% of the questions asked of him tonight. He only actually replied to about 1/4 of them with answers, even vague ones.
A few times his befuddled reaction and repetitive nonsensical ramblings actually made me laugh out loud. "I deal with terrorism a lot." :snort: Other times I just stared at the television with my mouth open, and asked "What he hell is he talking about?" or "That doesn't even make sense!" And I don't mean his forgivable vocal skills, I mean his train of thought and complete statements. Some of them just did not work.
He used Reaganisms several times. "Stay the course" was mentioned 3 times overtly, and more in synonymous language.
I was really bothered by his inability to admit to a mistake... even one. When pressed he could not name one single thing he did since 9/11 that he considers a mistake or failure. That bothers me, because either he thinks he has made no failures, or his failures are so bad that he doesn't want to bring them up at all.
I don't like the revisionist speech he uses when talking about our motives in invading Iraq, nor do I like the way he says "spreading freedom in the Middle East" as his personal mission, ordained by god. I also dislike the word "spread." Freedom doesn't "spread." It... erupts. It's an amazing idea that comes from within you, not from other people. It can be forced on you, you have to want it, or be born to it and want to keep it.
