State of the Union is a state of mind

[trinityvixen]

I actually read almost all of this!

I did, of course, have to ENTIRELY skip anything having to do with Iraq because, ta-da, I've heard it all before. Everything, every fucking excuse for a war with no purpose, no victory, no end, he has made before, and he will make again. For years, probably whining to anyone who will pay attention to him.

The only thing I took note of was, in an entire transcript of this speech, how much time he devoted to the subject. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't spend as much time on global poverty, hunger, and AIDS-related problems (and our insufficient, puritanically demanding means of addressing especially that last one), taxes, or, hell, even berating the Congress for not letting him have his way TOGETHER than he did on Iraq. I am DAMNED glad I didn't watch this shit because it would have been nearly an hour of my life I'd never have back (whereas I cheerfully skipped the transcribed portions).

And on the subject of yelling at Congress--I can't remember, but is that normal? Is it normal for a president to get up there and stamp his foot like a two-year-old being denied a toy because they won't make his legacy of tax cuts/changes that (mostly) benefit the rich permanent; because they refuse to extend the really terrible No Child Left Behind bullshit; and because they oppose wire taps that give the government unfettered access to absolutely anyone's private phone conversations without warrants? Petulant, Mr. Bush, aren't we?

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[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Normal? Well, the Presidency has taken a rather hectoring tone towards the rest of the government of late. But that's as much because of this Bush as it is anything else.

I can't say if it's typical from a recent-historical perspective, but it's certainly of a piece with the rest of W's time in office.