Upon listening to today's State of the Union Address and the one previous to it back-to-back, I heard this:
"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... We will work for a prosperity that is broadly shared, and we will answer every danger and every enemy that threatens the American people. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations. We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... Another cause of hopelessness is addiction to drugs. Addiction crowds out friendship, ambition, moral conviction, and reduces all the richness of life to a single destructive desire. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... In all these efforts, however, America's purpose is more than to follow a process -- it is to achieve a result: the end of terrible threats to the civilized world. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... the Netherlands... blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... One of the worst decisions our children can make is to gamble their lives and futures on drugs. Our government is helping parents confront this problem, with aggressive education, treatment, and law enforcement."
OMG! We are going to invade the Netherlands! Fear us, you lazy pot-smokers!
Yes, that was actually my jealousy giving way to rage. :P
I love how he threw in the cutsie-wutsie little girl's letter that really, in my mind, only proves how brainwashed we are into blind obedience to our government's whims. The swift currents of patriotism can easily whisk even the tallest of river-waders downstream. Anywhooo... here is what he read of the letter:
"Dear George W. Bush. If there is anything you know, I Ashley Pearson age 10 can do to help anyone, please send me a letter and tell me what I can do to save our country. If you can send a letter to the troops please put, 'Ashley Pearson believes in you.'"
Well, Ashley... That was nice... and I will tell you what you can do: you can write the troops yourself, stop wasting the President's time, and slap your dumb-ass parents for not thinking of that beforehand! I would have said to slap them senseless, but this condition, of course, was already established as 'pre-existing'.
You have no idea how effective a hand written letter can be to someone away from home and far from safe. Man, drug testing in schools... that must suck. I am sure glad that I managed to slip through Official Scrutiny by attending my Institution of Conformity prior to metal detectors and surveillance cameras. Who know what sort of mandated lobotomy they would have inflicted upon poor free-thinking me. o.O
In conclusion, Bush is a weenie. Anyone else notice that there wasn't a single mention of Bin laden?
