Thoughts on the Viva Bush Speech
Published September 03, 2004
If you didn't catch the George Bush's speech last night, you can catch it here. I thought it an excellent speech in which the President made a good case for himself. He did fail to address how we are going to deal with our bloated deficit, which concerns me, but otherwise he spent the right amount of time on on the future relative to the amount of time spent on the past.
I kind of wish he would have said something like "Was it something I said?" when the protesters were taken out of the building, but I suppose that is a lot to ask. Bush isn't a fiery extemporanean, but he is a clear and honest communicator. This is one of my favorite traits of Mr. Bush.
Maybe I'm missing something, though. The myriad protests outside MSG seem to have no coherence whatsoever. The list of grievences is both long and motley, but the one premise that all protesters seem to share is that Bush is a 'darn good', unequivocal and hateful liar.
This I just don't understand. George Bush may be a lot of things, and he has certainly made his mistakes, but he doesn't seem to me to be a liar.
Regarding health care, allowing individuals to form groups is, to me, the best solution to our health care crisis. The reason that 45 million individuals in America are not insured is not, in many cases, because the government doesn't want them insured, it's because the insurance companies can and will refuse to insure them if they represent even the hint of a shadow of a risk. It's their business to do that and as long as we allow them to have that much control, that's how it will continue to be unless people can come together and share risk for the common good. This is a no brainer.
- Thoughts on the Viva Bush Speech
- Published: September 03, 2004
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I thought it was a great speech overall. I agree with your comment about not addressing the deficit, and I was also wondering how we will pay for all these new medical clinics.
As to keeping America safe... IMO if we're not safe, nothing else matters very much. If I make 100K/year but have to worry about my daughter getting killed because some idiot straps a bomb to his chest and blows up at the mall, money doesn't mean squat.
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Regarding Bush lies, there would be no question of his honesty if the evidence wasn't so readily available. Look up PNAC - this is the 'think tank' behind the current administration, founded by Cheney, Rumsfeld, and a bunch of very rich and powerful businessmen and military commanders. Within the PNAC website you can find downloadable documents which clearly state that the true policy of the Bush administration is to promote American affairs abroad - at the expense of the UN and the rest of the world. They openly support the idea that terrorism is just an 'opportunity' to wage 'total war' on any country which could be considered a threat to the future 'dominance' of the United States.
It also states that Iraq, and indeed, the whole of the middle east, has been a target of this 'new order' long before 9/11. PNAC doctrine calls for American leaders to attack any nation which could become a 'superpower' in the future. This probably means that Korea and China are already in their crosshairs.
To suggest that Mr Bush is not aware of the guiding hand behind his own administration would be naive, to say the least. If he is not telling the whole truth about his motives in Iraq and the rest of the world, that clearly makes him a lier.
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