"Not With a Bang, But With a Whimp" Ed Naha on SotU- great!

[TomInTib]

I'm not sure which is worse, listening to George W. Bush speak or reading the transcripts of his speeches. Since I actually fell asleep during his epic State of the Union mantra (so many words, so little sense! Zzzzz.), I've reviewed every re-hash he's ladled out this week, averaging one a day. I've come to two conclusions: 1) the speeches are so simplistic that Koko the gorilla could do better and, 2) reading them is worse than listening to them, bereft of all visual comedic effect provided by our leader live and in person. (Kinda.)

Following up his coma-inducing SOTU oration, Dubya took to the stump further expounding upon his dissonant themes at, I'm not kidding here, The Grand Old Opry House in Nashville, long known as sort of a local Think Tank. For some odd reason, his Gomeresque twang grew to Brobdingnagian proportions on this outing, even beating to death the phrase "right quick." As in: "I want to talk about four other issues right quick," "I want to talk about health care right quick," "I do want to talk about ethanol right quick" and "I want to explain why a'hm the only one in my family what talks like this right quick."

Where's Minnie Pearl when you really need her?

If it's humanly possible for Bush to dumb down any of his central ideas (?), he managed to do it in Nashville. After defining himself as the "educator-in-chief" (His college dissertation on the symbolism of the TV show "Hee-Haw" is still considered a classic in some circles...like the town from "Deliverance."), he tried to explain the current mood in America. "I understand there's an anxiety about a time of war. That's natural, it seems like to me."

FDR couldn't have put it any gooderer.

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http://smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=24738&mode=nested&order=0

[Doctor_J]

1. Insane, or drunk - you make the call

"...There's a lot of turnover in the job market. People are changing jobs, and that creates uncertainty. And during times of uncertainty, we're faced with certain choices. And there's a tendency throughout our history, our economic history and foreign policy history, to withdraw. Times of uncertainty sometimes encourage folks to say, well, why do we need to compete? Why don't we just come within ourselves? (NOTE: This is illegal in Alabama.) Why don't we protect ourselves off from the world? Why do we need to be trying to spread freedom when the world is a dangerous place? Why don't we just come home?"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Cheese and crackers,