Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

I was expecting President Bush to spend most of the SotU address talking about Iraq, like he’s done for the past 6 years - and he didn’t let me down.

Tell me how the hell we can even still call it a state of the union - meaning OUR union, the United States - address when the majority of the time spent speaking is about another country entirely?

Let’s see, it took him about ten minutes to have his entourage come in and sit down, be introduced, make his way through the crowd, and finally arrive at the podium.

Then a dizzying fly-by of topics that actually deal with our country for 20 minutes. I think he might have even averaged more than one topic per minute, but I’d need to check the transcript for that.

As soon as it hit 9:30 - bammo… in came the war talk. 25 minutes of what’s so great about Iraq. Nevermind that this is supposed to be a speech telling the Congress and the American people what’s so great about the USA… let’s spend more time talking about some other country than we do talking about our own.

The final 5 minutes were spent praising people in the gallery. And there you have it. Another hour-long (television time) talk where the priority and emphasis was on Iraq. You know, I’ll be happy to see another President just in the hopes that we’ll actually get a SotU address that is actually about OUR union!

I’m really, really, tired of this.
Oh and by the way… Mr. President, putting in a federally mandated benchmark and then requiring schools to meet that benchmark or lose funding is most definitely not “returning local control”. Yeah, I did catch that blatant lie during your quick pass-over of US issues, when you were urging Congress to renew the “Let’s Fuck Up The Schools Even More” act.

Let’s hope that they don’t.

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