I watched a little piece of our 43rd President's history tonight. It was the most complex, detailed, articulate speech of his Presidency. It was a mighty good try. Whoever wrote it was gifted, with a fine intellect, an attention to detail, and a definite capacity for complex thought. The President read it well. Indeed it may have been his finest reading. It was his opus of spoken language.
I can only imagine the high fives he got from Cheney, Rice, Rove, (maybe a guest appearance by Rummy?), and whatever other members of the Steam Team were waiting for him behind the red curtain to congratulate him on the job well done.
He didn't stumble, bumble, jumble, or crumble, the President and his words were one. He sounded like Anderson Cooper, but the steam he spoke, though he didn't go and choke, is still bound for poop scoopers. I was impressed.
But let's get down to the core issues.
He admitted, or at least the speech-writer did for him, that the responsibility for mistakes is his own. Nice.
He's gonna have soldiers knocking on doors throughout Baghdad. That's gonna go over nice, everybody loves a knock on the door, machine guns invited in for coffee and tearing the place apart looking for WMD's (an AK47 or two??) in the dusty Whirlpool Dishwasher.
He's not going to talk to Iran, Syria, he's not going to do that whole diplomacy thing, he's buttering us up to Attack them, telling us how much all the bad stuff in Iraq is their fault. Hmm, come on, I don't really need to say anything here do I?
He's going to send in more troops, gonna kick it up a notch, but only to numbers we've had in there before, but somehow he thinks that's going to be enough, even though it wasn't before. OK sounds like a good plan. Same Same. But different. More of the same, but it sounds like changing something. Great idea.
He says we've got to "advance liberty," but we are going to do it by increasing our troop numbers in a country where the majority of citizens don't even want us. Right.
He said "Al Queda" in that Texan drawl. OK, NEWSFLASH!! PGWB It's not working anymore.
He's listened to the advice of everybody around, lots of generals, senators, former president's, and he hears what they are saying but he's just gonna GO HIS OWN WAY. Oh wait, does it sound like he's listening to someone? Wait, wait, who's that I hear in the background? I hear their cackle whispers coming out from behind his ear bud reciever. AHAH! There they are again. It's the Neo-cons. They're like the 87 Raiders, they're mean, and dumb, and I see them on bumper stickers everywhere.
He's listening to somebody, and they put together a good speech for him to read, and boy he must have been practicing. But it's not looking good. It doesn't add up. This war doesn't add up. Beware Middle East!! They are waiting for you to blow something up in America! Hey Iran! Those boats off your shores aren't there to fish. Beans and steam, beans and steam, beans and steam. Great speech. Too bad it stunk.
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