Not His Dad's State Of The Union

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Wow. Check out that opening line and then the article tries to say that PretzelBoy is well liked despite his f*ckups. :crazy:
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There was a fundamental dishonesty in President Bush’s State of the Union address.

The rhetoric, the themes, the pre-speech spin were all orchestrated to portray a president above politics, fighting evil on the planet. But the speech was shrewdly timed to step on the news stories from Iowa and raise a Rose Garden curtain on his own campaign. Politics without fingerprints. And only some 60 million Americans were watching the president get his unfiltered message out.

Such phoniness is not, for the record, a necessary ingredient of election-year State of the Union addresses. As a counter-example, consider President George H.W. Bush’s 1992 speech and this moment of candor, "I know, and you know, that my plan is unveiled in a political season. I know, and you know, that everything I propose will be viewed by some in merely partisan terms."

Bush the Elder did something else his son wouldn’t do, admit there profound problems in the country that frustrated him. "Now to our troubles at home," the first President Bush said in 1992. "Let me tell you right from the start and right from the heart: I know we're in hard times..."


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