Our folksy Big Brother President gave his ‘State of the Union’ speech this evening. The main focus of it was the continuing ‘war against terrorism’. I don’t know if I can stand any more irony. Sometimes I wonder if people who run the government really believe all the slogans and crap they say.
Anyway, not suprisingly Bush announced that the war on terror has just begun. Look forward to a spiraling deficit as your hard-earned money is poured into the corporate feeding trough. What will you get for it? Nothing but more advanced weaponry which we will use to kill more people.
I’m glad I wasn’t at home to watch the state of the union address. With all the applause from the pinks I would’ve gotten sick. Supposedly, there was a 3 and a half minute standing ovation! I really can’t believe people honestly like this guy. According to a Washington Post poll Bush’s support is around 83%. Am I still on earth? It feels like I’m in a bad movie about the 50’s. I’m expecting crewcuts and flattops to come back in style.
In a weird part of the speech, Bush pushed a ‘voluntary’ universal service for Americans. Basically, he said people should spend two years serving their country. He suggested Americans join the ironically named USA Freedom Corps to help with Fatherland…er Homeland Security. He also spoke of a plan to expand the Peace Corps. I’m guessing this has something to do with the information war. The US is interested in expanding the Peace Corps in order to affect the educational systems of Islamic countries so that they become more pro-American. This idea that the US should coerce foreign educational institutions has been discussed openly by the government.
Bush said he wants to double the number of Peace Corps volunteers over the next five years, and asked the group to join “a new effort to encourage development, education and opportunity in the Islamic world.”
In a tip of the hat to religious fundamentalists in our own country Bush said:
“For too long our culture has said, ‘If it feels good, do it,'” Bush said. “America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: ‘Let’s roll.’ We want to be a nation that serves goals larger than self.”
For some reason, I hear that phrase a lot when I ask people what a liberal is. I once asked my grandmother what she thought a liberal was and that’s what she said. A person who says ‘if it feels good, do it.’ I can honestly say, as someone who has been accused of being liberal I’ve never said or heard anything like this. Where do people get this?
Here are the definitions of liberal and conservative:
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lib·er·al (l
- Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
- Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
- Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and
the United States.
- Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
b
r-l, lbrl)adj.
con·ser·va·tive (kn-sûrv-tv)
adj.
Now, I ask you. Which would you rather be?
Bravo. Good post. I would have much rather watched you read this aloud on national TV than watch W. I didn’t watch, and could have. I fail to see the significance, it is only a time for the president to put on a show.
Good definitions. Left wingers get the worst rap these days, it is so unpopular. Even among people my age, who I think would have an inkling of leftist tendencies, are so duped that they can’t say a sentence without seriously noting at the end: “…then the terrorists have already won.”