President Bush’s State of Union
Never has the American public suffered a more dissembling, deceitful and disingenuous pile of rhetoric than Bush’s State of the Union message.
Concluding 40 minutes of nonstop banality Bush said, “The anchor to our world today is freedom,” without a word being said as to what might be done toward freeing our 30 million Americans now locked in degrading poverty. It is terrifying to realize that any person so completely pedestrian and commonplace could be President of the United States.
To listen to House Speaker Tom Foley’s (D-Wash.) reply is to have hope.
ELMER ANDERSON
Rancho Palos Verdes
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