"State of the Union" address
Whether we like or dislike the subject, the annual event and its ultimate effect has been for some time in the past a major deciding factor to shape the fate of people all over the world . I was watching this year's live CNN coverage of George W Bush's address on 21st January,2004, delivered to the joint sessions of both the Houses of the Congress at Capitol Hill . Showing great regard for democracy ,freedom , human rights and all those lofty ideals /values, which have so long been the contents of such deliberations, was the norm in the past , but this latest one apparently was full of arrogance of power and unfair justification of the damage caused to all of those values for which the US stood up in the past.
The reactions inside the House from the Senators/Congressmen and more so the expressions of the Democrats, including their leaders in the Houses, and Ted Kennedy in particular to CNN were total rejection of the president's view points . It was perhaps a unique demonstration of such a great occasion tuned in to a clear-cut partisan show that was probably never seen before. No one can deny that the whole thing was tailored to be Bush's next election campaign rhetoric . No matter how hard Mr. Bush, and his war-mongering aides, may try to plunge the world to further insanity and disorder, the American people ought to give the right answers in the next polls in order to save the world from further disasters .
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