haven't we heard this speech? got this from tim who got it from kos.
the Slate - For $2.4 trillion, guess what word--other than "a," "and," and "the"--occurs most frequently in the acceptance speech George W. Bush delivered tonight.
The word is "will." It appears 76 times. This was a speech all about what Bush will do, and what will happen, if he becomes president. Except he already is president. He already ran this campaign. He promised great things. They haven't happened. So, he's trying to go back in time. He wants you to see in him the potential you saw four years ago. He can't show you the things he promised, so he asks you to envision them. He asks you to be "optimistic." He asks you to have faith [...]
Recession. Unemployment. Corporate fraud. A war based on false premises that has cost us $200 billion and nearly a thousand American lives. They're all hills we've "been given to climb." It's as though Bush wasn't president. As though he didn't get the tax cuts he wanted. As though he didn't bring about postwar Iraq and authorize the planning for it. All this was "given," and now Bush can show up, three and a half years into his term, and start solving the problems some other president else left behind.
the author is dead on. how come bush is talking about things he WILL do? he's been in office for 4 years. this is the same speech he gave in 2000, when he was a candidate. our sitting president shouldn't be stumping w/will do's like a candidate. this just points out the fact the repubs don't want to focus on the first four years because everything dubya has touched has gone wrong. they chanted 4 more years at the RNC w/o ever touching on the first 4.
