Tuesday, June 28, 2005
A summer repeat
It's infuriating. Even at this crucial point in Iraq President Bush continues to play games with himself & the American people. Rather than speak directly to us, he's delivering a speech tonight at Fort Bragg before an audience of soldiers & letting us eavesdrop. C'mon, we've seen this road show before, the sea of clean uniforms cheering the Commander-in-Chief cheerleader. It's a staged deception, like Bob "swinging a golf club at Camp Pendleton" Hope disguising his terrible jokes with a line of dancing Hollywood starlets. "Supporting the troops" is not a strategy. If you want to recruit more young people for the armed forces, Mr. President, give a speech to your daughters.In fact, the Prez has no intention of speaking to the American People, or he would be broadcasting from the Oval Office with a gravitas sufficient for supplanting NY Yankees baseball on WCBS-AM. Instead, he's chosen to perform for his wavering loyalists in red state media markets.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
