Brian Greenspun wonders how Bush's 'state' coincides with global realities

[NVMojo]

Feb. 12, 2006

Maybe the State of our Union isn't as good as the man says.

I am having some trouble squaring what President Bush told us the other night at the State of the Union address with what he and the generals like to refer to as "the facts on the ground."

That's because what is going on all around us - in this country and around the world - is anything but good. Anything but secure. Anything but hopeful. And anything but the economically rosy picture he drew for us last week.

I am not saying that the president misled us - there is already a constant chorus of Americans who are making that case - but I am suggesting that maybe the president needs to get out a bit more because if he did, he might learn that whatever the "data" says, the facts tell a different story.

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