From CBS News, 1/21/04:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/20/opinion/meyer/main594733.shtml
Such phoniness is not, for the record, a necessary ingredient of
election-year State of the Union addresses.
(CBS)
This Against the Grain commentary was written by CBSNews.com's *****
Meyer.
There was a fundamental dishonesty in President Bush’s State of the
Union address.
The rhetoric, the themes, the pre-speech spin were all orchestrated to
portray a president above politics, fighting evil on the planet.
But the speech was shrewdly timed to step on the news stories from
Iowa and raise a Rose Garden curtain on his own campaign.
Politics without fingerprints.
And only some 60 million Americans were watching the president get his
unfiltered message out.
Such phoniness is not, for the record, a necessary ingredient of
election-year State of the Union addresses.
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