Tuesday, January 29, 2008
seven or eight
Michael Abramowitz wrote this yesterday in his WaPo column:
Actually, the SOTU address is a flexible matter according to the Constitution & as explained at The American Presidency Project. GWB has delivered 8, but the first was billed as a "Budget Message." Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Ford, & Carter gave one just prior to leaving office. Reagan passed on his 8th but delivered an Oval Office farewell address.
Giving Bush "credit" for improved security in Iraq is like giving an arsonist credit for calling the fire department.
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Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, died at age 83. An intelligent, talented, attractive woman. Sixty years ago, her father desegregated the armed forces by executive order. It took several more years, constant pressure from civil rights organizations, & the Korean War to kick the services into compliance, but it happened.
"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
Today, the president is getting little credit for improved security in Iraq, as the public increasingly focuses on a struggling U.S. economy.Probably? Does Abramowitz suspect something?
That is the problem Bush faces as he prepares to deliver his seventh and probably final State of the Union address tonight.
Actually, the SOTU address is a flexible matter according to the Constitution & as explained at The American Presidency Project. GWB has delivered 8, but the first was billed as a "Budget Message." Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Ford, & Carter gave one just prior to leaving office. Reagan passed on his 8th but delivered an Oval Office farewell address.
Giving Bush "credit" for improved security in Iraq is like giving an arsonist credit for calling the fire department.
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Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, died at age 83. An intelligent, talented, attractive woman. Sixty years ago, her father desegregated the armed forces by executive order. It took several more years, constant pressure from civil rights organizations, & the Korean War to kick the services into compliance, but it happened.
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