Final Year's Realities Push Big Ideas Into Background

President Bush took office with so much derision for the outgoing president that critics defined his attitude toward governing as ABC -- "anything but Clinton." He would not play "small ball," he declared, nor would he coddle North Korea or waste time mediating between the Israelis and Arabs. But as he delivered his final State of the Union address last night, Bush increasingly appeared to be adopting some of his predecessor's approach. Full Story »

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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

A fair assessment of the Bush administrative disaster and G W's reportedly low key, scripted performance. I appreciated this piece especially because, as was apparently true across the nation, I did not watch the SOTU speech, regarding it as a waste of time. But in my case, it happens that this was also true of all his other SOTU addresses.

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