State of the Union

[Ele'ill]

What are some of your thoughts on Bush's speech?

I think it was shallow and generally lucrative.
0 emissions in 2025? Too late. Bio diesel is ready to go right now. We need to push for that although i'm glad he didn't suggest drilling in alaska. Most of the stuff said in national speeches doesn't hold up.

Anyway, what do you all think. Detailed responses are welcomed.

[La Comédie Noire]

Let me see.....well

1. He pretty much blew the war horn against Iran, which was expected because the american media has been focusing on them for awhile, pisses me off but moving on...

2. Tried to justify probing into people's personnel lives with the talk of telephone calls to "alkida" or whatever.

3. Tried to effectivley change his Image from the Oil Hungry Capitalist to the moderate enviormentalist president by talking some gibber jabber about hybrid cars.

4. Than he went off on some more domestic Issues.

So It was pretty much what I expected...Utter Bull Shit. <_<

I just don&#39;t see how the people in the Capitol building could clap for all the crap he said, they definetley all deserve Oscar&#39;s for that bit of performance.

[Zingu]

I can&#39;t bear to listen to him anymore; his obnoxious voice going "freedom....terrorism...safety....bin laden/saddam/Zarquawi/insert evil dude here...axis of evil....9/11...ect. ect. ect. ect."


So I didn&#39;t listen to it at all, why does the media even bother to pretend to take and analyze it seriously?

[YoUnG192]

Their already is drilling in Alaska, not on a massive scale of course.

[anomaly]

My uncle and I were taking bets on how long it would take the asshole to invoke 9/11, you know, as a scare tactic to frighten the proles into submission and and acceptance of his fascist ideas and illegal wars. Well, it only took him 4 minutes&#33; Our&#39;s has truly become a society of fear, and, if you are a student of history, you will notice that, politically, we are marching a path disturbingly similar to that of Germany&#39;s. Economically, on the other hand, we are marching a path disturbingly similar to that of the 1920s, that is, the era predeeding the Great Depression.

[Severian]

I don&#39;t think there was really anything new in terms of policy, except maybe for the proposal for a bipartisan commission on "saving" Social Security. (As in, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it.")

The thing on "Medical Savings Accounts" is a similar proposal for individual solutions there. But not even as remotely realistic as Social Security privatization. With or without an MSA, when you walk in without insurance, most medical providers will charge you far more.

It was kinda interesting to hear a U.S. president admit that having an election by itself does not mean democracy, after they&#39;ve ignored that point so adamantly in the past...e.g. El Salvador in the 80s. But nothing really new there either; it was already clear this administration is committed to promoting the forms of bourgeois democracy in the Middle East.

For a second I was wondering if he&#39;d called Saudi Arabia a "failed, oppressive state" but then I realized he meant Afghanistan. Really all this democracy-offensive stuff would make more sense if he&#39;d explain why it&#39;s sometimes a problem for Washington when its clients are too openly dictatorial.

He didn&#39;t really call for any particular action to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, or give it the kind of prominence that would indicate a imminent war drive is on. But it is amazing how in one breath he can deny Iran&#39;s sovereign right to develop nuclear weapons, and in the next claim he respects the Iranian nation.

[jaster]

the points he made were good, if he actually followed them , the filthy hypocrite, he is a racist, bigotted, unintelligant arsehole, god i hate him, and i hope he dies

[bezdomni]

I agree with him that we can&#39;t allow human-animal hybrids.

;)

[dopediana]

i was at a demonstration where we broadcast the state of theunion on a big screen outside and banged on pots and pans to drown out his voice. after a while i went inside to watch it. it sounded like "blahblahblahcompetitiveblahsmallcompaniesblahblahb laheducateourchildrenblahmakesurekidsstudymathands cienceblahworkforceblahterrorism." and laura bush sat between the token muslim and the token black person. it was really not informative at all and an immense waste of time.