State of the Union

What can you really say about this? A lame duck president whom 61% of the country dissapproves of, who is managing a failed war effort, and who had to find some glimmer of hope in topics he really doesn't care all that much about (e.g. the environment) and that wont be accomplished anyway because he's impotent. And while the many, many "special profiles" were moving, what the hell do they have to do with the state of the union and how you're going to fix it? The man is grasping for a life preserver that no one has thrown.

What's more, I don't understand how pundits like O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham can so blindly support a president who is so clearly failing. O'Reilly did a "Talking Points" segment prior to the president's address based on new Gallup polls, revealing how "the folks" truly feel about the state of our union. Talk about selectively choosing your information. There is no link to the video but here are a few of the "Points" (by the way, any second sentence in quotes is O'Reilly's addition)...

"86% are satisfied with the overall quality of life. This is a great country."

"70% think if you work hard, you have plenty of opportunity in this country"

"63% think our moral and ethical climate is declining. The internet and some media have hit traditional values hard."

"57% think taxes are too high. The Democrats need to get that message"

Let's see if I can summarize...Gallup polled "folks" on the weekend who believe we're better than China, who see those crazy lefties in the media running amok with our values, and who want to keep as much of their money as possible. Yep, everything is peaches. Thanks Bill.

O'Reilly ended on this note, which I found hilarious..."If Iraq had been stabilized, Mr. Bush would be a popular president." That would definitely be true, if "the folks" didn't care about castrating the judiciary, blurring the Church-State boundary, corruption, the environment, or privacy.