John Perry Barlow: "Our Televangelist in Chief preached quite a little sermon to Congress and the nation night before last. It should have been no surprise that the State of the Union Address was chock full of statements that were, at least to my ears, the moral equivalent of fingernails on the blackboard. There was, for example, Rev. Bush's assertion that it was now necessary to surveil all Americans in order to protect our liberty, but one assumes this guy has never heard of George Orwell. Or irony, for that matter. His admonition that America is addicted to oil was one of the most sublime ironies of an administration whose reign has been especially rich in them. His promise to the Iranian people that we would provide them with democracy seemed especially bizarre given that they have just conducted their first free election in decades. Of course, we don't like the guy they elected, so perhaps Bush was talking about American style democracy, where we can rig the results to suit the ruling class."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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