Dulled American dreams at home and debilitated American influence abroad
Ten months too long
Truthdig
by Marie Cocco
01/31/08
I watch the constitutional and media curiosity that is a president’s State of the Union address as a journalistic and civic duty. Every year it is enlivened a bit by some small tingle of anticipation about how the made-for-TV moment of the night will come across on screen. Last year, it was the historic image of Nancy Pelosi, the first woman speaker of the House, standing behind the president at the rostrum. On Monday, it was the political pairing of Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama, mesmerizing both sides of the aisle in the notoriously partisan House chamber — just as George W. Bush was supposed to be taking command of it. Command Bush did not. The feebleness of a lame-duck president with abysmal public approval ratings has pathos to it. It is all the more dreary today because Bush’s decline has been brought on by his own policies. His is a legacy of dulled American dreams at home and debilitated American influence abroad...
http://tinyurl.com/2f28fy
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lame-duck
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marie+Cocco
Truthdig
by Marie Cocco
01/31/08
I watch the constitutional and media curiosity that is a president’s State of the Union address as a journalistic and civic duty. Every year it is enlivened a bit by some small tingle of anticipation about how the made-for-TV moment of the night will come across on screen. Last year, it was the historic image of Nancy Pelosi, the first woman speaker of the House, standing behind the president at the rostrum. On Monday, it was the political pairing of Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama, mesmerizing both sides of the aisle in the notoriously partisan House chamber — just as George W. Bush was supposed to be taking command of it. Command Bush did not. The feebleness of a lame-duck president with abysmal public approval ratings has pathos to it. It is all the more dreary today because Bush’s decline has been brought on by his own policies. His is a legacy of dulled American dreams at home and debilitated American influence abroad...
http://tinyurl.com/2f28fy
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lame-duck
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marie+Cocco
rudkla - 1. Feb, 13:44
