Okay, I can't resist
I need to pick out a few things in Bush's State of the Union speech, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald.
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country," he said.
Does this include the job security of steelworkers, farmers, and others who are failing to compete with cheaper imported products. I mean the ones who are subsidised by tariffs?
Many Democrats feel the [Patriot] act encroaches on civil rights.
Is encroaches a euphemism for tramples? Is being arrested and locked up indefinitely without being able to see a lawyer just encroaching on rights?
Stepping into a controversial issue, Bush said he considered marriage to be the union of a man and a woman but stop short of endorsing a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
"If judges insist on forcing their arbitrary will upon the people, the only alternative left to the people would be the constitutional process. Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage," he said.
If the USA changes its constitution to defend marriage will they see foreign gay married couples as a reason to wage war on Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, and others?
