Ellis Henican: If Only They'd Tell It Like It Is

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JHB (1084 posts) Jan-29-03, 08:43 AM (ET) Ellis Henican: If Only They'd Tell It Like It Is Ellis Henican If Only They'd Tell It Like It Is January 29, 2003 Just once, a U.S. president should step into the well of Congress and deliver an honest State of the Union address. Not the same old self-congratulatory blather. Not the usual bob-and-weave. Not the kind of speech we got last night from George W. Bush - or the kind we've been getting from presidents for as long as anyone can recall. We deserve a truthful State of the Union address. A frank appraisal of where the nation is. A State of the Union speech that goes something like this: Thank you very much Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, distinguished guests, my fellow Americans. To be perfectly honest with you, the state of our union stinks. Unemployment is shooting up like Dick Cheney's blood pressure. Consumer confidence is as clogged as Harvey Pitt's veins. Obviously, our economy is wheezing now. Forty million Americans can't afford health insurance. Eight million can't find a job. And all of a sudden, my performance numbers are dropping faster than Strom Thurmond's chin. I understand the pressure this puts on all of you. So I've decided to steer our nation to the very brink of war, a war I haven't been able to sell at home or abroad. But Karl Rove tells me Americans rally 'round their president at wartime, and that sounds fine with me. More on that in a moment. (more) http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-nyhen293107503jan29,0,1253321.column?coll=ny%2Dopinion%2Dcolumnists What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. --Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I Chapter VIII The irony of modern conservatives and economic libertarians is that they want to take the economic system that defeated communism and replace it with the one that spawned it. -- JHB The First Amendment cannot be "zoned" -- JHB   Alert Edit | Reply | Top

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Jivenwail (182 posts) Jan-29-03, 08:54 AM (ET) 1. Beautiful! Yet at the same time, so sad because it's so true. But honesty is not something this resident-in-thief could ever count as one of his virtues. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter". Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

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