Daniel Cody - “Left on the Lake”

Things are going so badly in Iraq lately that the President and his handlers are putting him on primetime TV tonite to ‘re-sell’ his reasons for war to the American people.

After two years of ‘The insurgents are on the run’, ‘We’re making lots of progress’, and ‘Freedom is on the march and things are getting better’ comments from the administration, the American public has started the slow process of coming to realize that maybe the war in Iraq isn’t making us safer against terrorism, nor is there any sort of gameplan for our troops getting out.

So instead of reality show promos and ED treatment commercials tonight, we’re going to be getting the hard sell from a man who lives in a world detached from reality.

The advance reports about tonights speech - in which once again, troops are used as a patriotic prop for the President - have said it’s a ‘major policy speech’ despite any lack of new plans, changes in direction, or policy changes towards the war. What the speech tonite really is for the President is a chance to get on national TV for an hour in front of a bunch of flags and troops and tell us for the umpteenth million time that “Things are getting better” and “Freedoms progress is marching on to Liberty while Democracy wins the war on terra.”

If he really wanted to convince American’s that things are getting better in Iraq, or to feel more optimistic about the war, he’d actually offer something new, like a plan, instead of just trying to persuade us that the situation is getting better without offering anything tangible to back up his argument.

I suspect tonight’s speech will have about as much effect on people as any other commercial they see on TV at night. The pretty pictures and scripted message they’ve heard a thousand times before isn’t going to get much traction.

Especially when the reality of the situation directly contradicts what the salesman is pitching.

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