Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Quick Thought: Bush's Mad Eyes and Kaine Was Wrong Choice

More tomorrow on the SOTUS address by Bush although I think he broke his own record for mentioning "freedom" in a speech.

Some quick remarks... The foreign policy stuff was "manifest destiny" bullshit familiar from the biggest dog on the block since at least Roman times if not since Ug's tribe developed the club. Just the "white man's burden" rejinked for modern times.

The domestic stuff was, it seemed to me, a case of "I say it's true so it must be". Tax cuts, snooping on Americans, "Every Child Left Behind", the economy...blah, blah. But boy does he look utterly insane at times. Insane or just plain mean...or both. I last saw that gleam in the eyes of Maggie Thatcher after she had gone utterly barking during the Falklands War.

But what about the Dem response? Kaine was the wrong choice. He seemed smugly uncharismatic to me. He smiled at the wrong points - such as when he was accusing Bush of leaving American servicemen in the dirt over body armor. Did they freeze his smile with botox or something?

And what was with that young-Columbo eyebrow? My fourteen year old son pointed it out in the first 30 seconds and after that I couldn't concentrate. One hovered and moved around, halfway up his brow as if it had a life of it's own. It looked like a windshield with only one wiper going!

I thought Bush was one of the most uncharismatic and unconvincing speakers I had ever seen, but Kaine made him look almost competent.

If it hadn't been for the mad gleam in Bush's eyes when he thought he'd been clever or scored a point you could, by comparison with Kaine, have mistaken him for a real President.

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