Via Spoons, we have this story: Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech:
President Bush glossed over some complicating realities in Iraq, Afghanistan and the home front in arguing the case Americans are safer and his opponent cannot deliver.
On Iraq, Bush talked of a 30-member alliance standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States, masking the fact that U.S. troops are pulling by far most of the weight. On Afghanistan and its neighbors, he gave an accounting of captured or killed terrorists, but did not address the replenishment of their ranks — or the still-missing Osama bin Laden.
In the interest of elaborating on CALVIN WOODWARD’s points, I thought I would list some other things Bush did not address last night:
- Insecurity in Microsoft products, or the purported superiority of Linux.
- The ability of movie companies and comic book companies to maintain a profitable, lasting set of fan-appealing franchises when faced with misguided efforts, like The Hulk, and underappreciated-but-expensive films like Daredevil.
- Lara Croft or BloodRayne: Which video game babe is hotter?
- Cats who insist upon sticking their tails in my schooner of beer.
- Those burps where Blogger (or other blogging software) makes you think you will, or you actually lose a post. What’s up with that? Did Carnivore eat it?
- The mere annoyances that are Spam, Adware, telemarketing phone calls, junk mail, and print or broadcast advertising of things I don’t like–annoyances that demand FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ATTENTION NOW!
- Scofflaws who don’t buckle their safety belts. Why is this not a Federal crime yet, punishable with jail time?
- Women bloggers who ficklely start and stop their blogs, over and over again, challenging other bloggers who want to keep their blogrolls fresh (This means you, Lucas, du Toit, VKate, et al.)
- Those damn Chinese butterflies who keep beating their wings and starting hurricanes.
- A federal study to determine how many types of information wild moonbats can communicate through their barks and grunts.
- Introduction of federal tax assistance and incentives to bloggers unafraid of the beautiful tag.
Actually, history will show that Bush left more out of his speech than he included. Perhaps this was because it was a speech designed to come in under an hour with planned interruptions for applause, chants, and inevitable protestors.
Or maybe Bush is really trying to hide everything else from the world, which receives its information only when the Master pours his words into our ears.
