Presidential Address
I watched last night as the President addressed his people. Here are a few points I found interesting.
First there is the setting
The media prefaced this speach, marking the importance of this address based on the Presidents location in the oval office and the fact that he hasn't addressed the nation from that location since the beginning of the war. Now why is this significant, the President since the beginning of the war addressed the nation several times in such a away. I can note of the top of my head at least two times for the 2004 and then the 2005 State of the Union address. Also the President makes weekly radio broadcasts, and tours around the country to sell crap like his Social Security intiative. It seems to me that the significance of this is one created by stating that there is significance in him addressing us from the oval office. Ask yourself this, are there any magical properties to the oval office? Or does the setting of the oval office make the President seem any less ridculuous or seem some how more credible? Perhaps the curtains match his eyes? Either way I don't feel that the setting is signiificant nor do I see this speech as significant. Reporters on ABC mentioned how he addressed his opposition. So what, he's done this before, and its all the same, he's asking us not to protest. It is the words of every President, and particularly a "war-time" president. Don't protest my war. He says because its already began, but this is just his way of saying, because there is nothing we can do. But there is something we can do. We can not buy into his speeches no matter how imbued with significance by their setting as suggested by the media. We can protest his speech, and protest his war, and most importantly make sure his budies in Congress find themselves homeless come November 06.
Another concern is the Presidents implication that he is not a politician. He states that he will make decisions on Iraq based on suggestions from commanders and people on the ground, and that most importantly his decisions won't be affected by politics. That he won't be swayed by "politicians in Washinton." So perhaps, I was wrong maybe there is significance to the setting being in the white house, because its pretty ironic that he would prohibit the suggestions of politicians in Washington, when in fact he is a politician, and was at the utterance of that phrase sitting in Washington.
originally posted Monday, December 19, 2005 on MySpace
First there is the setting
The media prefaced this speach, marking the importance of this address based on the Presidents location in the oval office and the fact that he hasn't addressed the nation from that location since the beginning of the war. Now why is this significant, the President since the beginning of the war addressed the nation several times in such a away. I can note of the top of my head at least two times for the 2004 and then the 2005 State of the Union address. Also the President makes weekly radio broadcasts, and tours around the country to sell crap like his Social Security intiative. It seems to me that the significance of this is one created by stating that there is significance in him addressing us from the oval office. Ask yourself this, are there any magical properties to the oval office? Or does the setting of the oval office make the President seem any less ridculuous or seem some how more credible? Perhaps the curtains match his eyes? Either way I don't feel that the setting is signiificant nor do I see this speech as significant. Reporters on ABC mentioned how he addressed his opposition. So what, he's done this before, and its all the same, he's asking us not to protest. It is the words of every President, and particularly a "war-time" president. Don't protest my war. He says because its already began, but this is just his way of saying, because there is nothing we can do. But there is something we can do. We can not buy into his speeches no matter how imbued with significance by their setting as suggested by the media. We can protest his speech, and protest his war, and most importantly make sure his budies in Congress find themselves homeless come November 06.
Another concern is the Presidents implication that he is not a politician. He states that he will make decisions on Iraq based on suggestions from commanders and people on the ground, and that most importantly his decisions won't be affected by politics. That he won't be swayed by "politicians in Washinton." So perhaps, I was wrong maybe there is significance to the setting being in the white house, because its pretty ironic that he would prohibit the suggestions of politicians in Washington, when in fact he is a politician, and was at the utterance of that phrase sitting in Washington.
originally posted Monday, December 19, 2005 on MySpace
posted by Subversive Intentions at 11:16 AM
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