What a Difference… Less than a Month Makes
Not to mention, a year and a half or, say, three.
On December 18th, the president attempted to assuage the American people, saying, “My fellow citizens, not only can we win the war in Iraq, we are winning the war in Iraq.”
Last night, having gauged that no one was buying that line anymore, he tried for mutual indignation. “The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people; and it is unacceptable to me.”
I’d like to refer to the first clause in that sentence as “The ‘Duh’ Heard Around the World.” And by the way, I gave the president the benefit of the doubt on that semi-colon.
I will say that watching the speech on closed-captioning with a drink in my hand made it easier to watch.
Think Progress has a video up from MSNBC (Joe Scarborough of all people) of clips from various Bush addresses. No CC though, so you have to watch it with the sound on. Bummer.
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