The State of My Living Room
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Well, I just got done watching the President’s State of the Union Address. Since President Bush started giving these things his popularity has dropped from speech to speech. I think we would both be happier if he would just stop. It seemed like a mostly uneventful or uninteresting speech but there were a few things that caught my attention.
The president brought back his little game called “spot the irony” when he said we need to become more energy independent. He brings this up every year but it just seems to be getting sillier and sillier. For some reason I have a hard time believing this year he will actually make some big changes. He did add a small twist when he asked the congress to join him in bringing gasoline consumption down 20 percent in the next ten years and requiring 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuel in 2017. He’s not the first guy to come up with a really bold idea that he will have nothing to do with. If I were President, and it were my last two years in office, my state of the union would go something like, “Join me in vowing to cure aids, cancer and the common cold in 25 years. Oh yeah, and we’ll take care of poverty too. By 2207 I take the bold initiative of calling for the colonization of Saturn.” Nobody from 2207 will look up my speech and say, “Where are we on that?”, just like nobody will talk about this ten years from now and say, “Let’s look at all Bush has done with his big bold initiative for alternative fuels.” It is bullshit he can never get called on.
Another part of the speech I enjoyed was when the President of the United States of America took an opportunity to address citizens in his largest speech of the year and decided to tell them what Osama’s been thinking. I don’t think I will ever understand why the President likes to tell us how Osama Bin Laden feels about stuff. Our Dear Leader:
Um. I can’t really think of more idle words. Saying you would rather die than live with unbelievers is a perfect example of idle words if you are not really willing to kill yourself. So I guess I am just not sure if the President understands what idle words or empty rhetoric mean, but then that would explain a lot.
I yelled at the TV about a few more things but I don’t really like reliving the President’s speeches more than necessary so that will have to do for now. I am off to watch American Idol so I can say I watched something smart on TV last night.