State of the Union Address

So, I managed to sit through the last half of Duhbya's SOTU address last night. I missed the first half, but something tells me I didn't miss much. The over-arching theme, from the half that I saw, seemed to be a huge chasm between his speech and reality. If I didn't know any better, I'd think this guy actually wanted to make America a better place. But, the programs he proposed (some of which he's actually enacted) that I agreed with either will never get funded (or haven't been funded, in the case of programs like "No Child Left Behind") or were such an abusive example of double-speak that you just know they won't accomplish what the name might imply. For example, any time Bush mentions "reducing our dependency on Middle East oil", he doesn't mean we should invest federal funds in R&D for reusable, clean non petroleum-based fuels, he means, "god damn it, let's drill the f*ck out of ANWR and see if we can't find some domestic oil upon which we can be dependent". Of course, he couldn't find oil in Texas, so I'm not sure we should have any confidence that he could even find oil in Alaska, were we to give him the chance.

Anyway, it's an election year, so I'm sure a lot of pretty things will be rolling off his lips just to try and get his ass re-selected. Well, those words that he can pronounce anyway.

Among the shots of the audience, I noticed several members of Congress and noted dignitaries seemed to squirm a bit at some of the more Orwellian things Bush had to say. But my favorite moment was when the camera panned over to Ted Kennedy as Bush was talking about -- well, I can't recall what he was talking about. It was all so replete with unremarkable bullshit. But anyway, there was old Ted Kennedy actually rolling his eyes and looking away. With the state of the media these days, there's no way to be sure how many in the audience had the balls not to stand up and applaud every time the boy Resident actually completed a sentence, but it was nice that they caught at least one. Also, Ted was scratching his chin. But not in the "I have an itch right here" way, more like the way Italian mobsters do it in Mafia movies that means, "up yours you piece of sh!t"! That was probably the one redeeming moment.