May 26th, 2004, 10:46 AM
I tthink this and the bike story have the makings of a HUGE story.
'REFORMED ALCHOLIC PRESIDENT HAS RELAPSE!'
There's every bit as much truth in that story s the Kerry intern tale, and possibly more. If I were Drudge, I wouldn't be posting that as a joke.
"I guess you don't have any real issues to talk about. You must really be frustrated. Maybe tomorrow Bush won't have a matching tie."
Let me be the first to apologize. Your right. I hardly ever make pots about the issues in this race, in fact, now I think of it, I never have. I bet it's cause I'm lazy and firly uninterested in politics. Thanks for the wake up call Nalds.
"Max, please don't tell me someone who seems to be so into politics watched this speech and the only thing he came away with was Bush mispronouncing a word."
Oh, I promise you, that wasn't all I came away with. The main thing for me was that after the build up, there was nothing new offered in the speech. Despite what the British are saying, we intend to control the military and the prison system, and how aid money is spent after the sovereighnity hand off, so I'm mystified about what sovereignity we are giving them. Do you think we'd leave if the new government told us to? Would we concider ourselves a sovereign nation if we couldn't order a foreign army off our soil or even ask them to stop shooting at people?
Here's my thing about this though. I KNOW it seems like a very small thing to most people, but we all have our values. I think one of the least things we should expect from the leader of the free world is that they make an effort at communication. Now maybe W has some sort of real learning disability when it comes to speech, nd if that's the case, I think they should have admitted it long ago. To me, and this is just me here, it looks like he couldn't give a crap and that he places no value on getting names right, speaking in whole sentences or speaking to the world with dignity. At very least the level of dignity my boss expects of me. Hell, I truly believe President should be required to write their own speeches, becuase I think the people have a right to know what their President thinks and feels and see how he epxresses himself, not how a team of writers and their focus groups write a script. I think our standards for Presidential communication are shamefully low. He speaks for our country. It's a big part of the job, and sure, there are other more important aspects of it, but W's the one who campaigned on the dignity of the presidency . When he gets up there and can't say the name of the prison where America tortured prisoners the same way one out of three times, I think he looks like an unprepared, overconfident freshman. It's meaningful to me. If it's any consolation, I think Kerry is a shitty public speaker too, and it's a damn shame.
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