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Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Let David E. explain it all to you
David Ehrenstein shows why he is one of my favorite writers...and fast too. The whole Bush speech with between the lines interpretation.
...and if you want a view from the emotionally stunted side there is always Andy Sullivan who is in full swoon over the speech.
But there was something else here - the glimmers of a real core of compassionate conservatism. By mentioning the lonely elderly, or the AIDS orphan, and calling on us to get involved person by person, I felt morally led by a president in ways that I cannot recall in my lifetime. I was particularly struck by the president's defense of the newly or prematurely born, and their right to be treated with dignity and compassion rather than with brutality. So sue me for being moved. I was.
Only Andy Sullivan can say that he was "morally led" by this president without grasping the irony.
Jesse (thank Jebus he's back) weighs in:
The same abortive economic policy, the same flimsy "evidence" thrown up to support the war on Iraq...Bush's policy is modeled in the Creationist vein - an explanation in search of facts rather than the other way around. I can't remember him ever having a new idea, or even a substantive idea, other than his immediate response to September 11th. The world will justify Bush's beliefs, or he will ignore and demonize what doesn't. Leadership isn't a wish list, and Bush's inability to respond beyond his programming will be his downfall.
...and the New York Times:
President Bush sought to revive a sense of national resolve last night with a State of the Union address that readied the country for a showdown with Iraq and demanded another huge tax cut for wealthier Americans. No one watching the somber Mr. Bush's delivery could doubt his determination. But the combination created far too mixed a message. It was hard to reconcile the president who vowed not to "pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations" with the one whose fiscal policies have helped create gigantic deficits for taxpayers of the future
Maybe Howell Raines will loan Andy a cup of irony....
Finally, William Saletan at Slate:
If you went to the refrigerator during the first three minutes of President Bush's State of the Union address, you missed the part where he discussed the state of the union. After a few words about his record on the economy, education, corporate responsibility, and homeland security, Bush spent the rest of the hour outlining plans and promises. It was the kind of speech a president gives when he's been in office two weeks, not two years.
Why didn't Bush talk about the state of the union? Because the state of the union is nothing to talk about. The stock market is in the toilet. The economy is going nowhere. Unemployment is up. The deficit is out of control. Remember those State of the Union speeches Bill Clinton gave? The guy couldn't stop quoting happy numbers. That's one problem Bush doesn't have
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