Last night was the annual State of the Union address by the President. In this case it was given by GWB, the current Commander in Thief Chief.
Several of the blogs I read have their takes on the State of the Union. Here are a few of my favorites from this morning.
The Irregular Times has a photo of the SOTU, with new caption bubbles located here. They also have an excellent retrospective look at GWB’s 2005 SOTU and how it compares to the reality of 2005 located here. They also have a humorous drinking game based on the SOTU here. They also have an interesting, but unrelated, essay on Republicans and Family Values located here.
Prawfs Blog has a good post on GWB and how America is addicted to Oil here.
Michael Hampton, over at Homeland Stupidity gives his opinion on the SOTU here. They also have a transcript of the SOTU posted here.
Personally, it is my belief that the State of the Union is not very promising at the moment. All is not well in the United States, and this can easily be seen given the past year’s events and:
- how much the National Debt has grown
- how many civil and personal rights have been lost or infringed upon
- the actual lack of success in the GWB’s personal “War on Fundamentalism” or whatever he has re-named it to
- the loss of respect and status of the United States in the world, mostly due to the current regime’s actions
- the corporate lack of ethical behavior, responsibility and accountability, especially as seen in the Enron scandal
- the same lack of ethical behavior, responsibility and accountability by the Republican leadership, as seen in the Delay, Abramhoff, NSA scandals, etc.
- no actual improvement in the security of the American people