Wednesday, February 02, 2005
SOTU quick review: - Not as well written as previous speeches.
- Social Security: Mentioning age 55 will not help Bush (anyone over will have guarantee). Bush speaks of 25 year-olds. That means everybody from 25 to 55 is going to be puzzled, worried, or both.
- Bush will get hammered for saying SS will be "bankrupt" in 2042. Bush's recitation of SS numbers was lacking form. 2018. Then a decade later. Then ten more years. Booooring!
- Reverse of typical Bush speech. Normally he starts out with foreign policy, then moves to domestic. This time domestic led and Bush ended with foreign.
- Extremely small amount of God-talk. No coded references either!
- Still flogging the old energy bill.
- Not as tightly structured as previous (or Clinton) speeches. For example, mentioned giving the soldiers what they need, then talked about Iraq and Middle East, then returned to praise soldiers. Would have been better if soldier part was unified.
- Too many cooks worked on the speech. It showed.
- Bush is no Reagan when it comes to telling stories.
- Highlighting parents of Marine that died in Iraq will work for some, but others will find it either manipulative, or very sad.
- Purple fingers: Slightly off-putting.
- Bush mentioned "terror" or variants a lot.
Overall grade: C+
posted by Quiddity at 2/02/2005 08:36:00 PM
1 comments
Please diagram SS pirateization for everyone.
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