SLEEPING THROUGH G.W BUSH’S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
1/29/08
I honestly had every intention of watching George W. Bush’s very last State of the Union Speech last night. However, by 9:00 pm I was in a deep sleep. I was watching some talking heads on one of the stations around 8:00pm; until the discussion became so boring I began to dose off. I didn’t wake up until I was aroused from my sleep by loud applause. When I opened my eyes I saw George W. Bush receiving a standing ovation by Congress . Then I saw him signing autographs for members of Congress, and wondered why the hell anyone in Congress would want a G.W. Bush signature, unless they planned to forge his name on a bill.
I was still half asleep when I heard a talking head announce, that the Democratic Response to G.W’s speech would begin shortly, and the speaker would be a big gun Democrat. Then pictures of three well known Democrats flashed on the screen. I waited until the commercial was over expecting someone of Democratic importance to speak, when a washed out, Christy Todd Whitman look a like, Governor of Missouri, began to speak. For ten minutes I heard absolutely nothing, but one rhetorical cliche after another, until I couldn’t stand it anymore. It was apparent the planned speaker bailed out in the last minute, and she was a last minute replacement. She appeared completely unprepared, and looked like a stunned deer, staring into the camera, forced to read an unfamiliar speech off a monitor, under bad lighting. Did some brave , big phalic, Democrat decide to pass on a Global opportunity to argue before the nation, and the world, against the worst, lame duck Republican president, with a legacy of the worst policies ever enacted in U.S history? Why did the loyal opposition stick a corpse infront of the camera to give an empty rebuttal pregnant with cliches? Her speech could have been written by an eighth grade student council president for a speech in a student assembly? It sounded like something a speechwriter grabbed out of his old files as a sample of generic Democratic babble usable for all occasions. The rebuttal was ridiculous and absolutely sickening. It wasn’t worth waking up for. I turned it off.
I have reached the conclusion, that I am sick of politics and politicians. I realize I have no tollerance for them anymore. I have never felt this way before as I fear for the present and future of my country. The lowest level of abililty has become the prerequisite for our elected officials. A lack of vision and political will of our leaders to solve important issues, too often accurately mirrors the people they represent. This is why the United States is in it’s present dire condition. All candidates are bought or are willing to sell themselves to the highest bidder to win their elections. Those who elect them do the same, they will sell out their fellow citizens so they personally might get ahead financially. It is the way our system is, and it will not change. Perhaps millions of Americans, who watched the Swan Song of George W.Bush last night might have been impressed, or repulsed by what they heard, or they might have fallen asleep as I did. It doesn’t matter because George W. Bush is still President for one more year, he is still stupid, and Congress is still cowardly, and corrupt. The country is entering a severe recession, and is still at war, losing American lives daily in Iraq, and Afghanistan. The American network news media despite it’s strict censorship showed the world last night; that Democrat speakers are as boring and brainless as Republican speakers.
L.A. STEEL
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