2002-01-30 - 11:37 a.m.
While watching the State of the Union address last night, my workout pals and I decided that any one of Dubya�s speeches would make a most excellent drinking game. Every time he says "freedom," drink. Every time he says "terrorism" (pronounced "terrurrzm") drink. Every time he says "evil" or "evildoers," shout SPOOOOONNNNNN! then drink. And every time he looks straight at the TV camera and looks like a dazed lemur, you chug.
Whoever hasn�t passed out by the end of the speech gets to be the next President.
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Content aside, Dubya�s speeches really betray the limitations of his vocabulary, and it�s starting to grate. I don�t expect my leaders to read the dictionary in their spare time but I do want to believe that they can read. Part of the problem might be with Shrub�s speechwriters for not knowing how to turn his lack of eloquence into a positive. Plain and unadorned language can make a speaker sound tough and no-nonsense--or it can make him or her sound like a five-year-old. Word usage and delivery is everything.
Or maybe it�s just that Dick Cheney has been in seclusion too long and the hand he usually has up Bush�s ass during public appearances is a bit stiff from lack of exercise. Who knows?
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