The State of the Onion

Stinks. The media's doing whatever they can to rally Americans' support around a speech and a president that they still want to like but lost respect for months, if not years, ago. What we heard was a president who hasn't learned anything in politics:

1. The "uniter, not divider" is trying to warm over the opposition just six years into his term.
2. Bush pitched fuel efficiency standards and energy consumption goals in an about-face from his first six years.
3. His health care plan is DOA. No one wants tax credits for health care. People want HEALTH CARE.
4. When Did George discover the environment?
5. Notice what didn't change? His consistent position on Iraq. Here's the deal that I've mentioned timelessly here. This country can't afford to lose this military occupation. We need to stabilize the region. We need an autonomous and independent nation with a democratic government. Problem with all of these is that the neocons threw our people into this war with such blindsided ideology that we weren't able to establish in the first year of the conflict. What would fix Iraq now? Another two hundred thousand marines and another Marshall Plan. Destroying the village in order to save it didn't work for us then and it's failed us again. We need a new approach entirely.
6. Notice that the deficit and responsibility about spending were all thrown on the next administration? Considering that the chances a Democrat will be elected are very good, Bush is right now ceding defeat while screwing the opposition and the entire country. Want to be responsible with money? Stop giving tax cuts to people who don't need them.
7. The "Democrat" Party? Disengenuous. "God bless" instead of "God bless America"? Giving props to "Baby Einstein"? WTF? I read a pundit who claimed that this will be the most pored-over SOTU by this president of his presidency. Umm, this one's worthless. How about we go back and read the one where he blatantly lied to get us into a war that has damaged our nation's image, destabilized the Middle East even further and has brought about this nation's second military loss. I guess George learned nothing about Vietnam. Maybe he was too busy serving in the Guard to watch the news.