POTUS Address - Jan 25th, 2011
I must confess, I didn't watch the Presidential address when it was given. I was busy looting dungeons in World of Warcraft at the time, with my buddies. When I woke up this morning, I watched it on the CNN website.
I had three major reactions to the speech.
The first thing that struck me; was his rallying cry to "work together". This type of logical thinking, flies in the face of North American party politics; which resemble a popularity contest between reality TV stars! The level of absurdity that is the US "democracy", is too big, too old, and the main focus of most of the efforts of those in the "old age club", is to discredit the opposing political party. Creating and enacting logical legislation is a distant second priority.
So; when the President of the US made a statement about focussing on bipartisanship and civility, I nearly woke up the children from laughing so hard! Let me quote him.
"Not whether we can sit together tonight; but whe…
I had three major reactions to the speech.
The first thing that struck me; was his rallying cry to "work together". This type of logical thinking, flies in the face of North American party politics; which resemble a popularity contest between reality TV stars! The level of absurdity that is the US "democracy", is too big, too old, and the main focus of most of the efforts of those in the "old age club", is to discredit the opposing political party. Creating and enacting logical legislation is a distant second priority.
So; when the President of the US made a statement about focussing on bipartisanship and civility, I nearly woke up the children from laughing so hard! Let me quote him.
"Not whether we can sit together tonight; but whe…