The lies the President told in his State of the Union & his real chance for greatness

“We are winning” in Iraq. Delusion.
Reporters who’ve covered the war say it is a “blackhole.” Ok, POTUS would say they're amongst the doom and gloom naysayers. But a Pentagon report says we can’t stay long enough in Iraq to quell the insurgency; we don't have the troops or the resources (especially given what seems to me to be a runup to a new war in Iran). Bob Shrum on http://MSNBC.COM claims this war will cost $2 trillion and "we could have had free healthcare for all Americans."

9/11, the act that defines the Bush Presidency. Iraq=al Qaeda. Delusion.
No. There are places we probably should invade. Iraq shouldn't have been on the list. Are we safer than we were on 9/10/2001? A little. The obvious basket-case/nutjob/fruitcake/bull-goose loonie/mental defective will now stand a better chance of being caught up in the NSA security sweeps at the airports. And now we have added domestic spying, to some presently unknown extent, to the mix.

Gay marriage=bad. Delusion.

Stem cell research=human cloning. Delusion.

Criticizing the war=providing comfort and encouragement to the enemy. Delusion.

Most interesting of all is The President addressing our "addiction to oil." This in itself is a fantastic statement coming from a Texas oilman. One of the most spirited discussions of this occurred on Chris Matthew's Hardball. We have to break our “addiction” to foreign oil, The President said. And Matthews and the pundits compared this to the Nixon trip to China, possibly the most famous political example of casting against type.

The speculation on The President's speech focused on oil and alternative energy sources and drew comparisons to President Nixon's trip to China. Is big oil George Bush's trip to China? Is George, as a longtime oil supporter and partisan, in a singular position to crack down on and wean us from big oil? Just as the old red baiter President Richard Nixon was the only President who could have gone to China and cut a deal with the Communists?

It's pretty to think.
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