I flipped on the ole tele last night to catch some of the State of the Union address, and found that I had missed most of Dubbya's remarks about the economy. But I was just in time to hear him spout the same old sensationalist rhetoric about "the enemy" and its desire to destroy American freedom.
I got really mad. My first reaction was to shout at the TV. Then, I wanted to turn it off because I couldn't listen anymore.
But finally I realized that underneath all that [expletive deleted], there just might be something I wanted to know. Sometimes you just have to listen, even when you don't want to, because the price of ignorance is just too high.
Besides, there were some fun parts, like seeing Nancy Pelosi start flipping through a notebook with obvious boredom while Dubbya droned on about "successes", and seeing half the spectators refuse to stand up when he made what he obviously thought were strong statements about "staying the course" in the Mideast, especially the rather pathetic lies about community cooperation among Muslim sects in Iraq. It's not like anyone was going along with his...er... grandstanding. So, I guess it's nothing to get upset about. In fact, it's a little sad. Poor Bushy.
Well, maybe that's going a little too far.
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Ha! I thought that too about Pelosi — I joked at first that it was probably a comic book, but then I realized she was actually just pretending to follow along with the State of the Union program — which I assume includes Dubya's speech verbatim.
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