L.A. Liberty

… In the end, I see and hear in this SOTU many of the same jingoistic platitudes that I can no longer suffer from my elected leaders. Interspliced with the inspiring calls to action, and the seemingly courageous policy suggestions, are carefully selected and curated phrases that are intentionally ambiguous, euphemistic, or lacking in concrete definition; but which nonetheless create vague positive mental images and emotional thrusts that carry little impetus and are hard to disagree with.
And as I end this, Barack Obama has mentioned how he killed Bin Laden again, just to get those few extra votes. He is currently milking the story for everything it’s worth. I really don’t see anything different about this from Rudy Guliani using 9/11 as a patriotic crutch to prop up his political prospects. This is not the Hope and Change I voted for in 2008. It’s unrepentant political Jingoism at its worst.

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Letters To My Country: SOTU Commentary #3

letterstomycountry and I disagree greatly on the proper role of government (indeed on its sheer necessity and legitimacy)… but I must commend him for his honest and thoughtful take here. 

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