Bush (R)

Finally managed to watch The Speechâ„¢ after an insanely busy day. So this what all the hoopla was about?

My feelings about the speech that was supposed to outline an exit strategy in Iraq is a bit like the feeling you get when you sit down to watch a TV show you’ve been looking forward to and notice 5 minutes into the episode that it’s a rerun, or worse, a clip show that re-uses footage from old shows.

Bush’s Annapolis gig definitely smacked of both. There was nothing new in there at all, at least as far as I could tell.

And while the production values were good as usual (The Oscar for best dramatic adapted screenplay goes to… Karl Rove!) I doubt very much that this is going to silence the critics or stem Bush’s hemorrhaging approval ratings.

Why would more of the same change anything? Isn’t that what got us into this mess?