Just as President Bush's past State of the Union addresses, this one was a wonderful speech that tended as Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, "To pump--you up!" It really was a speech that was hopeful about the future yet short on the past.
A local paper suggested that the president clip a bit of it to his shaving mirror to read every day. I would suggest that they both review and work on the rest of their words further. I wonder how much would be left if the parts that were more faith-based than fact-based were removed. Then there are the portions that all Americans, especially Democrats could agree with.
It is wonderful to be hopeful, and looking only forward, that is all there is, when the facts are really just in the past. Of course I may be contradicting the facts, in that Bush did make reference to the past, while warning that that was turning back. While much of his speech was about concepts that should receive our support, what will matter most are the details and working together.
Unfortunately, his words do not bode well when he takes about one paragraph to do an about-face. From his claim that "...even tough debates can be conducted in a civil tone, and our differences cannot be allowed to harden into anger", he takes only a few sentences to fight the quasi-quixotic foes on "...the road of isolationism and protectionism..." I really can’t answer how this will work when he seems more about exporting our leadership than working on the democracy and law "in order to form a more perfect union" here.
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