George Bush delivered his final State of the Union address yesterday. He filled it with proposals that will go nowhere, since he has less than a year left in office (we think...). He was a little bolder in pushing a neoconservative and right wing christianist agenda than last year, but then, what does he have to lose?
Every time I watch Bush, I'm reminded of the late 1990s TV series Sliders. In that series, a band of people had a gateway to alternate dimensions, where it's the same day, but everything else is different, or so they said.
Bush always talks about some other reality than the one we all live in. In the real world, he's been an utter failure. But he's either from another reality or completely out of touch with ours to think that his wars are going well, that the rich deserve to have their tax cuts made permanent or that church groups should get federal tax dollars to do things that government and secular non-profits are already doing as well or better.
I cannot wait for that man to go.
Fortunately, the US news media presented us with important news about his possible successors: Obama snubbed Clinton! Hold the front page! Change the lead story on the evening bulletin! There's a big story to report!
Mind you, the recent childish games of the two have led the news media in the direction of reporting only stories that reinforce the existence of a petty feud. But, really: Since nothing is more important to the US news media than Paris Hilton, Britney Spears or Sean Young's meltdown (did you hear?!), can we really expect much from the US news media?
Well, I expect more. I expect them to report news, not nonsense. I expect them to document what's happening, how this administration has failed and how the proposed successors say they'll fix the country. I want the news media to deliver news, in other words.
I'm not holding my breath.
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