2007 state of the union address by Goerge W. Bush

Best described as politicians on pogo-sticks the State of the Union address was received today by members of the house and senate, along with the judges of the supreme court, and army generals; they bobbed up and down,--from sitting to standing—like a headgear adorned eight year old on a sugar high bobbing for that last unattainable apple. The speech given by President George W. Bush was notably contrived and placid; surely in response to the lowest presidential rating (28%) since Richard Nixon was bracing for the break in the Watergate flood, as well as having been given to a newly democratic controlled house and senate. In this context I am sure the president and his speech writers knew exactly what to emphasize in the forty minute speech and what to strike from it altogether.
Considering the presidents mention of the isle, and that it doesn’t matter which side representatives were on, only that they crossed that line when it came to getting things done; it was amusing to watch the red side hop to its feet leaving the blue’s in theirs with signs of contempt on their faces. The most contentious issue the president addressed was surely the Iraq war and the loaded yet mostly uninformed debate concerning whether to send more troops of start bringing the ones already there home. Are senators, representatives, and the American people that uniformed and naive to believe that “failure” in Iraq will surely result in worsening terrorist attacks on our county or simply that it will leave Iraq worse that when we got there.
I guess this use of fear as a weapon has always been one of most irritation for me. And, while it is possible that terrorist attacks could increase if the US pulls out of Iraq, it is also just as possible that by “staying the course” in Iraq could also easily result in more terrorist attacks. Its just how all things work when the future is uncertain and best described as chaos like a drop of water on the hand could easily fall in any direction. Of course I could just as easily compare the war in Iraq much like a responsible camping trip in the wilderness: That you leave those areas exactly as you found them, taking with you only pictures, and leaving some sparse but inevitable footprints.
For the most part the speech was almost too safe, with no real policy points being addressed, or with nothing unexpected coming out of it. The only real unexpected part of the speech was in the introduction of former professional basketball player Dekembe Mutumbo following a section of his speech about AIDS in Africa. Although, where the correlation of Mutumbo’s American citizenship and the worst regional AIDS epidemic in the world relate to each other, I don’t know. If Mutumbo has sponsored an organization to confront this issue that affects his homeland of Congo then the president did not name that organization.
I wanted to make this “review” more comedic, even gonzo-ish in nature but like all things I let the writing take the lead and not my intentions. So as the reader is left with an expressionless glaze over their faces and a thought about how it would be nice to have those last five minutes back; I say to you: You read really fucking slow I could have read over this in at least two minutes! Oh yeah and as far as stats and things go, the same sort that interest me the least, this state of the union was first ever to be opened by a female speaker of the house.