(Cross-posted from The Blog Roundup).
So for me, the highlight of the speech was the Iraqi woman, Safia Taleb al-Suhail, who had just voted in her country's election, giving a peace sign and displaying her ink-stained forefinger. The low point was the sight of Republican Congressmen (none of whom have never had to vote with bullets and bomb fragments whizzing past their heads) holding up their carefully-overstained fingers as a cheap publicity stunt for the cameras.
Tomorrow the papers, pundits and parrot-journalists will be uncritically repeating phrases from Bush's State Of The Union speech verbatim, perhaps quoting lines such as "We must join together to strengthen and save Social Security" (conveniently ignoring the fact that what little detail was contained in the President's speech about his plan for private accounts clearly indicate he will do little or nothing to save anything, let alone Social Security). So reading between the lines and the lies, what did Bush really say?
(more after the break...)
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