STATE OF THE UNION
It's that time again. All of our favorite TV shows will be interrupted, delayed, or omitted altogether so that we can watch W try to explain the various messes he has gotten us into this year. I suspect I will be running the vacuum cleaner.
The Radical Right seems to think they have disposed of the President's opposition by branding them "Bush-haters." Makes them sound like the same sort of totally irrational blokes who can't stand tunafish or the color pink or dogs. But most of the people I know who are less than enamored of Bush don't actually hate him, they just wish he'd open his mind and close his mouth. Many of us sincerely wish him a long and happy retirement, beginning as soon as possible.
Would I cross the street to avoid shaking his hand? I'm not sure. I seem to be as immune to his fabled "charm" as I was to Reagan's. I may simply have been born with a deficiency in my charisma receptors. I have spent a lot of time over the last 20-plus years feeling like a tone-deaf person at a concert, unable to figure out what all the applause was about. It's not that southerners turn me off. In fact, real southerners, like Clinton and Carter, kind of turn me on. But W is a fake southerner, and that may be part of what fails to enchant me. (After all, I grew up around real southerners.)
So anyway, I won't watch The Speech tonight, but I'll pick it up online later. Watch this space for comments.
The Radical Right seems to think they have disposed of the President's opposition by branding them "Bush-haters." Makes them sound like the same sort of totally irrational blokes who can't stand tunafish or the color pink or dogs. But most of the people I know who are less than enamored of Bush don't actually hate him, they just wish he'd open his mind and close his mouth. Many of us sincerely wish him a long and happy retirement, beginning as soon as possible.
Would I cross the street to avoid shaking his hand? I'm not sure. I seem to be as immune to his fabled "charm" as I was to Reagan's. I may simply have been born with a deficiency in my charisma receptors. I have spent a lot of time over the last 20-plus years feeling like a tone-deaf person at a concert, unable to figure out what all the applause was about. It's not that southerners turn me off. In fact, real southerners, like Clinton and Carter, kind of turn me on. But W is a fake southerner, and that may be part of what fails to enchant me. (After all, I grew up around real southerners.)
So anyway, I won't watch The Speech tonight, but I'll pick it up online later. Watch this space for comments.
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