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Tuesday, August 03, 2004 |
Bush's Acceptance Speech
Here's the text of Bush's Acceptance speech given four years ago today. How does it stand up?
But instead of seizing this moment, the Clinton-Gore administration has squandered it. We have seen a steady erosion of American power and an unsteady exercise of American influence. Our military is low on parts, pay and morale. If called on by the commander-in-chief today, two entire divisions of the Army would have to report, "Not ready for duty, sir."
Yep, he sure has increased American power and influence! But if these two divisions were not ready for duty, are these among the divisions that went to Afghanistan and Iraq?
...we need a leader to seize the opportunities of this new century: the new cures of medicine, the amazing technologies that will drive our economy and keep the peace. But our new economy must never forget the old, unfinished struggle for human dignity. And here we face a challenge to the very heart and founding premise of our nation.
Oops! Guess stem cell research doesn't count as one of these opportunities.
America has a strong economy and a surplus. We have the public resources and the public will, even the bipartisan opportunities to strengthen Social Security and repair Medicare. But this administration, during eight years of increasing need, did nothing.
Surplus you say? What happened to that?
Ugh. A picture of lies and broken promises.
6:38:16 PM Permalink
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Completely Divorced From Politics, You Betcha
Now: "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security," he told reporters. "This is not about politics. Then:Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might highlight the Administration's efforts to make the nation safer. The goal, they are being told, is to provide Bush with one homeland-security photo-op a month. [Pandagon]
4:47:56 PM Permalink
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The President is Calling
This is priceless: President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a pair of pants.... [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
Now the pockets, when you sit down, everything falls out, your money, your knife, everything, so I need at least another inch in the pockets. And another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight, so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost, these are the best I've had anywhere in the United States,
11:27:23 AM Permalink
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Negative Energy
My latest column Negative Energy takes on the Bush administration's latest line of attack against John Kerry and Josh Marshall's suggestion that we poke a little fun at the president: While John Kerry was serving as an officer in the United States Navy, leading men in a shooting war and winning an armful of medals in the process, Bush was a male cheerleader and fraternity president at Yale. He later went on to use family connections to land a spot in the Air National Guard, duty from which he took ample time off to run losing political campaigns. Kerry became a leader in an influential movement, a candidate for office, a successful prosecutor, the Lieutenant Governor of a medium-sized state, and then a U.S. senator during a period when Bush was letting alcoholism nearly wreck his marriage, doing something with drugs he refuses to answer questions about, and running a variety of businesses into the ground, losing his dad's friends a bundle of money in the process.Kerry didn't do much as a senator besides read bills other people wrote and decide how to vote on them. The president, meanwhile, doesn't read the newspaper. Or his daily intelligence briefings. Or the reports of government commissions. Not even the executive summaries! Read the rest. [matthew]
9:32:11 AM Permalink
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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