The opening remarks of the 2003 SOUA (the acronym reminds me of some long lost Indian tribe) are happy-go-lucky-cookie-cutter-look-what-we-did-pat-America-on-the-back statements.
(APPLAUSE)
That might be a good blog posting, I call it a good start.
Jobs, taxes, economy, health care, budget, energy independence, citizen service act, ect. are all serving as short buffers of the good will within the union before we get to the heavily analyzed Ramage passages dealing with WAR.
I must say my favorite part of the speech is the stirring:
"the ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the will of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of the United States of America."
Anytime, anything or anyone is bad they are instantly related to the ultimate icon of evil Mr. Hitler. The invoking of Hitler is really a ploy and throws me aback because it just doesn't fit. I wonder if Luntz choose the word because it strikes home with me, but not for the whole axis of evil analogy, but overused language that is loosing its meaning and power every time the word Nazi comes up. For a mass audience the catch-phrase of Hitler is like a Pavlov’s bell for a call to action against the evil of evils. As Ramage puts it "Hitlerism and communism were quite literally world threats while Iraq lacked the means to threaten any but the weakest of its immediate neighbors--he is guilty of exaggerating the case for war".
Jobs, taxes, economy, health care, budget, energy independence, citizen service act, ect. are all serving as short buffers of the good will within the union before we get to the heavily analyzed Ramage passages dealing with WAR.
I must say my favorite part of the speech is the stirring:
"the ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the will of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of the United States of America."
Anytime, anything or anyone is bad they are instantly related to the ultimate icon of evil Mr. Hitler. The invoking of Hitler is really a ploy and throws me aback because it just doesn't fit. I wonder if Luntz choose the word because it strikes home with me, but not for the whole axis of evil analogy, but overused language that is loosing its meaning and power every time the word Nazi comes up. For a mass audience the catch-phrase of Hitler is like a Pavlov’s bell for a call to action against the evil of evils. As Ramage puts it "Hitlerism and communism were quite literally world threats while Iraq lacked the means to threaten any but the weakest of its immediate neighbors--he is guilty of exaggerating the case for war".
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