Say what you will about the speech, but I for one found it amazingly inspirational! In fact this very night, not even a full hour after having heard it I was driven to take action! I just went online and requested some voter registration forms, so that I can do my part to kick this maniac out of office!
What was your favorite part of the speech?
Was it when he patted himself on the back for the awful condition of our nations schools, and claimed that his entirely unfunded “no child left behind” initiative was a roaring success? Remember, the key to educational success is more standardized tests (the bulk of No Child Left Behind)! I’m sorry, but if you grade education solely by a test, all you’re going to end up teaching students is how to pass a test. Anyone who’s graduated from a high-school recently remembers it I’m sure, Your instructors would prepare you a week in advance for some critical standardized test upon which school funding is reliant, they’d tell you when in doubt pick “C” it’s the right answer most frequently. And of course we get teachers simply teaching to the test, and focusing only on that.
Maybe you liked how he talked up the economy! Sure, we all enjoyed that! You know, unless you actually rely on a job to earn a living, this supposed economic “recovery” has been entirely jobless, so what’s that mean, exactly? Some fat-cat executives are turning an even fucking bigger profit, well good for them, I think that’s a huge load off of the nations shoulders, we were really worried about the nation’s ultra-rich there for a while. Maybe they could use another tax cut! Meanwhile, as more and more jobs head on over seas, Bush wants to allow a guest worker program to take what few manufacturing jobs remain, alright, go Bush! That’s a huge score for free market economics. Of course we know that the Republican party isn’t REALLY the party of the free market, only when it suits the ultra-rich, if it gets them cheap labor, then YES, if it means that American steel isn’t doing so hot, then NOO, if it means that poor ol’ American drug companies are loosing money because of very comparative rates on prescription drugs in Canada and Mexico, well then fuck it, trade restrictions all around, after all, it’s America who really benefits! Who gives a crap if our nations people can’t afford their drugs, there are too many damn poor people anyway, maybe if they can’t get their meds they’ll die quicker and quit belly aching. Anything is preferable to listening to those bleeding heart liberals cry their crocodile tears about drug prices literally killing people.
Did you catch the part about WMDs? Old fat head Ted didn’t seem to like it much, the poor drunkard was grimacing in pain as Bush backpedaled and gave us a sleazy sheister grin and told us that Saddam Husein had programs to develop WMDs. Wait a minuet, just programs? Weren’t you standing right there last year and telling us that he HAD WMDs, that you knew it as a fact, that he was building even bigger ones, nukes, and was probably poised to use the ones he already had against us? What happened? Now it was just “programs”? That’s ok, we don’t blame you for leading us to war on utterly fabricated pretenses, after all someone needed to clear the way to build that Oil Pipeline through Iraq and Afghanistan after Clinton got pissed and launched some missiles, and the Afghanis got pissed at your big oil friends all those years ago (which reminds me that Clinton’s military sure did do a superb job in Afghanistan and Iraq).
Well, whatever your favorite part was, I sure as heck know what mine was
Have you ever heard stories about some of the really great presidents in our history? The ones they all say were men of the people, FDR, JFK, and all that. You know how sometimes your parents and grand parents will glaze over and tell you that when they heard them speak it was as if they were talking directly to them. Well I’ve gotta’ say that that’s exactly how I felt when I heard Bush say this. He was issuing a direct threat to me, and so many people who I know and love, he was saying to me that he’s not MY president, and that he’ll gladly sell out my civil rights to pander to the viciously homophobic conservative right wing religious zealots. With this statement he’s issuing a clear threat: If them homosexuals get too uppity and start winning the rights which should be guaranteed to them in this nation, equal protection under the law, then I will support an amendment to the constitution to limit those rights! Amend the constitution to limit rights? What kind of maniac have we put in the white-house? The only time that the Constitution has been amended to limit freedom was prohibition of alcohol, and we all know how well that worked out, it’s crossed out for a reason, that’s just not what that document is there to do.
Well Mr. Bush, I won’t talk big and try to pander to people’s fears and hatred, and I won't go around making threats against you. But when the time comes I know I’ll do exactly what my mind and conscious both tell me so clearly needs to be done, I’m glad that my first vote in a presidential election will be one more toward booting you out of the White-House, and toward restoring the dignity of this great nation.
. Well said!!