RIGHTWINGSPARKLE

"A fiery warning for the world Bush begins second term with pledge to end ' tyranny in our world'."

This is how The Guardian posts it's story on Bush's speech. Think about it.

"We are WARNING you! Freedom is coming, don't say we didn't WARN you because we did! So BE WARNED! You may just experience freedom in your lifetime. THIS IS A WARNING!!!!!"

The New York Times complains :
The President's Speech Focuses on Ideals, Not the Details

I suppose a long drawn out speech giving details that have to be worked out through Congress through compromise and such would have been thrilling I am sure. THEN the New York Times would have loved it, right?


The New York Times gives us this regarding the protestors:

"We think this is a significant achievement for the antiwar movement," said Brian Becker, national coordinator of a protest coalition called Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism, or Answer. "We have bleachers, a stage, a sound system, and we're right along the parade route. We feel we have succeeded."
Never before had the Park Service granted a protest group dedicated space for the inaugural parade, organizers said, and Mr. Becker's coalition filled it with thousands of people who were as close to Mr. Bush as those who came to cheer him.

Interesting, wouldn't you say? That this President is so confident with himself that he had no problem with protesters being along the parade route FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. You see, this President is all about freedom. Even for those who disagree with him. The article says he and Laura Bush even waved at them as they passed by.

There were 13 arrests Thurs. night. The most interesting being a woman on Pennsylvania Ave nude but for red,white, and blue panties. Considering it was freakin freezing out there as well, I'm putting this one in the true nut category. The police had to use pepper spray to keep several demonstrators back from the barricades as well. But considering the seething hate among them, things went pretty well.

Slate gives us this sarcastic article: "Bush 2.0 His Latest Mission From God: Democracy."

Perhaps Slate should take a look at past inaugural speeches and see if there are references to God and such. They might be surprised. In fact, the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might send them into a tailspin since Dr. King made it clear that God required equality and freedom for all people regardless of race. Do you think if Slate had been around back in the 60's that they would have had this sarcastic headline?

"King: His Latest Mission From God. Equality of the races."

Hmmmm???

Ah well, here is a quote to remember as we read these things:

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)


The ending of Bush's speech was stirring however and reminded me of this quote:

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927


President George W. Bush:

"When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public and the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, a witness said, "It rang as if it meant something." In our time it means something still. America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof. Renewed in our strength tested, but not weary we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.
May God bless you, and may He watch over the United States of America."

We are ready Mr. President.