Bush still standing on the bodies of 9-11
Tonight's speech, on the commemoration of 9-11, was all politics. It was an attempt to use this day, and the deaths, to reframe the debate about Iraq. No memory, no commemoration, very little mention of 9/11 except as to it's political value in justifying his policies.
He stood on the bodies of the dead to justify his failing policies.
The more I think about it, the more apt the visual metaphor below.
He stood on the bodies of the dead to justify his failing policies.
The more I think about it, the more apt the visual metaphor below.
posted by mikevotes at
8:22 PM
5 Comments:
I can't watch Bush giving speechs... on TV or otherwise. I'll have to find the transcript somewhere.
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-epm, at 8:43 PM
NYTimes already has it up.
I often can't either, but in many ways this was make or break. My hunch is that it will be perceived as a 4 out of ten.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:57 PM
Scarborough on MSNBC didn't seem to like the speech. Called it political, noted that it seemed contradictory ("This is a war that came to us" doesn't square with "Saddam had nothing to do w/ 9/11" Joe said.) Brokaw didn't like it either (said he thought there would have been more poetry in it giving the country a "new vision" for where we're going next - but it was the same old same old) and Matthews (who looked kind of sick actually) thought the speech would have worked three years ago or even two years ago but not now, not with what's happening in Iraq.
I wonder how many people who watched that speech felt angry at the preznit afterwards. I bet quite a few. As you said so well, Mike, he stood on the bodies of 9/11 victims to rally people to his war. It was disgusting.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 9:19 PM
I caught some of the MSNBC after I realized CNN was going to Giuliani.
And, I agree, Brokaw and Matthews didn't seem to like it either. I don't think the speech will get panned although it probably should simply because it's this president and 9-11.
The other thing that struck me was the grandiosity of the argument. That Bush is bringer of freedom, Roosevelt, Truman, courageous enough to do what other presidents weren't. It was an interesting contrats to the uneven, at times uncertain delivery.
I also think that many will view the speech the way we're discussing it, although I would be far more interested to know how many people listened to that argument and were somehow swayed. I wouldn't think many, but I've been surprised before.. It's a pretty thin argument.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:40 PM
Oh, and unity means agreeing with the president.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:41 PM
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