Bush's State Of The Union

[Flamingo]

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-7.html

Having read it, Bush apparently believes that American leadership is changing the world for the better and the speechwriters have done a pretty good job in pleasing the masses.

[spike]

I sat up and watched it. It was an election year SOTU.

Interesting to note, however, that after telling the UN where to go last year, Britain and America

enforced the demands of the United Nations

as if they hadn't acted then

Security Council resolutions on Iraq would have been revealed as empty threats, weakening the United Nations and encouraging defiance by dictators around the world.

Also interesting was the fact that the military personel in attendance almost had to be told to aplaud at the right times.

[Admin]

My email for the day:






REPUBLICANS ABUSE CHILDREN

Eurgh! One of the oldest tricks in the politicians book, played out right before my very eyes. I'm sorry but, it may look cute, but the motives behind it tend to be selfish. As with the letter from the girl from Lincoln who aged eight years in the space of a one second verbal cock up, President Bush launched his re-election campaign with self-accrued support from children throughout the land. He'll be kicking himself this morning when he is told by an advisor/tutor that they cannot vote.

[Admin]

Bush's re-election speech/SotU.

Many interesting moments in the SotU this year. The UN comment as said by Spike. The coalition "Enforced the demands of the United Nations". Was that the united nations of the coalition or the UN? I'd go with the former on that one.....

Also

The unexpected applause after Bush made clear his concerns about expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, which I believe was a piece of rushed in legislation after 9/11. Bush's speech interrupted by a protest.

The firm stance on the sanctity of marriage, which despite not being religious, I agree with. Marriage is between a man and a woman.



Something Charles Kennedy said today during Prime Minister's Questions. He said the Iraq threat began as weapons of mass destruction, then became weapons of mass destruction programmes, and now it's weapons of mass destruction related activities. Brilliant way of summing up the whole fiasco.