The State of the Union (the Caro remix)

[carobanano]

Well damn, has it been a while. Basically, the rest of break happened. I spent my last night in State College deliciously, holed up in Julie's dorm room (which is on the same floor that Meg lived on her freshman year, holy crap) and watched Demetri Martin, whom I now adore. Once I got back to Ithaca on the 15th, the rest of winter break consisted

Comments

[annlynn]

Yes, but did you notice that the dates for meeting most of the goals he set were after he leaves office, which gives him no accountability. I guess I felt like he was just saying some pretty words to make us feel better but isn't actually going to do anything or anywhere near enough.

[slingstone]

...such is the nature of a 6th year state of the union address. I'm hardly a fan of Bush, but I think it's unfair to blame him for trying to start any initiative that supercedes the end of his last term. To my memory, no one raved about anything Clinton tried in the 1999 state of the union. The prejudice that "We can't trust anything he is currently planning because he won't be accountable for its completion" is just partisan nonsense. Your distrust and doubt is far more credible if it's founded on his record of policies and actions thus far instead of the timing of this address.

[icefilter]

It's so hard for me to feel optimistic about anything that Bush says, but at least he's feeling the heat from a Democratic majority (however slim). And there have been some happy news stories nationally and internationally. Ceasefire in Darfur anyone? But sometimes it seems like a tiny island in a sea of disaster...