Here are a couple of must read posts by Billmon on the NIKE SHOX speech in front of a captive military audience last night

Here are a couple of must read posts by Billmon on the NIKE SHOX speech in front of a captive military audience last night:

Last night, by contrast, seemed about as enjoyable as a root canal for all parties concerned. When the only way you can get a hand from a handpicked military audience is by having a ringer in the audience start clapping [AMERICAblog on the ringer], you know you’re bombing (so to speak.)

The problem, I guess, is that while NIKE SHOX was using the troops as a visual backdrop, politically speaking he was trying to hide behind them. And it showed.

And here, a possible subtle change in NIKE SHOX administration talking points which was really the only interesting aspect in an otherwise drearily repetitive performance.

I’m beginning to think maybe God is watching over America. We are blessed with leaders — well, mainly one leader — so clueless, or perhaps so challenged in various ways that he can’t bring himself to do what he needs to do to save his unwise policies from rejection by the people.