The Lasting Impact of Bush's Speech

Newsweek ^ | 1/31/2002 | Jonathan Alter

[Utah Girl]

After a president gives a big speech, the analysis comes in waves. First, he's judged on delivery and performance. Then, consensus develops on what the "big news" in the speech was.

FINALLY, AFTER EVERYONE'S attention has begun moving elsewhere, comes some sense of what part of the speech-if any-will have long-term impact. My guess is that what will live on from last night's State of the Union Message is a particular presidential proposal that rated little initial coverage.

[Alberta's Child]

You dont expect these people to volunteer 40 hours a week . . .

I'd say 40 hours a week is a lot of volunteering. religious orders used to do that kind of "volunteer" work, and they never needed any government support for what they did.

[summer]

Thanks for your colorful and interesting reply! :)

[Mia T]

 

Livingston said the "it's the economy, stupid," clinton scheme demonstrated that the clintons and their gang "are either stupid, themselves, or they were derelict."

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

 

 

Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.*

---GEORGE WILL, Sleaze, the sequel

 

Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational.

Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize."

When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months.

It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic "KnowNothing Victim Clinton" self-exclusion.

If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years.

And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists.

It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power.

It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue.

I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

Mia T, hillary clinton blames hubby for terrorism

(SHE knew nuttin')

Meet the Press, 12-09-01

 

 

*George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

Q ERTY3 co-rapist  bump!

 

also:

 

Fraudulent Democrat Scheme Fails as Bush Soars

BUSH: NATIONAL SECURITY 1^st PRIORITY. . ."I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."

THE CLINTON LEGACY PLACED IN STARK RELIEF

 

 

CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails Again

Ollie North Laughs Ann Lewis Off Stage

 

Helen Thomas Syndrome: THE SYMPTOMS

 

Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?

 

WHOSE DOG WAS WAGGED?

 

Frankenstein, The Sequel:

'Black Hawk Down' Was Set to Blame Clinton for 9/11

 

hillary's head revisited:

hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II

 

Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

 

"The Daschle Scheme"

 

THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT:

Analyzed and Annotated

[maica]

It's helping people who want to help, or learn how to help, themselves that appeals to conservatives.

One's attitude to volunteering is often a good indicator of one's voting preference. Democrats I have known (LOL) hate the idea on idealogical grounds because "the volunteer is taking away the (dues-paying, placard-waving) union member's job.

In Vancouver, for example, parents were forbidden from helping in schools.

President Bush is trying to raise awareness of what values improve a society to a populace who have spent far too much time "watching day-time TV," (his phrase) It IS the Thousand Points of Light of his father - obviously a Bush family value.