Civil Discourse

I didn't watch the State of the Union speech last night, but since that's one of those things you can't really escape without a lot of effort (like listening to commercial radio in the morning, *shudder*), I heard a couple of tidbits. Sounds like it was the usual collection of platitudes, wish lists, and crowd pleasers. I was find with it until NPR played the soundbite where Dubya calls for "civil discourse." Here's what raced through my head in the 2.5 seconds it took for me to hit the power button in disgust:

• Fuck you.
• Yes, let's discuss things civilly. Let's also be kind to animals and love our mothers.
• Sure, we can have a civil discussion, if you weren't too big a wuss to actually take questions from people who don't think you're the second coming of Jesus, Elvis, and the Marlboro Man.
• I agree. We wouldn't want to be comparing people who disagree with us to terrorists or anything now, would we?

And just to top things off, it turns out Cindy Sheehan was invited to the State of the Union, and got arrested for displaying some sort of protest message on a t-shirt. God forbid we should have political speech in the Capitol building.

Posted by Jason at February 1, 2006 07:19 AM