Speaking of Drunkeness

So a few people have commented that Bobo, who was on ABC I guess, during the inaugural festivities actually complained a bit about the martial tone of the festivities, or some such.

Well, those folks in the White House with his tiny little nuts in a tiny little vise did not like that one bit. One can hear the high-pitched whine of bullshit being cranked out today. And it is rank. Get a load of this line...

Two years from now, no one will remember the spending or the ostrich-skin cowboy boots. But Bush's speech, which is being derided for its vagueness and its supposed detachment from the concrete realities, will still be practical and present in the world, yielding consequences every day.

With that speech, President Bush's foreign policy doctrine transcended the war on terror. He laid down a standard against which everything he and his successors do will be judged.

When he goes to China, he will not be able to ignore the political prisoners there, because he called them the future leaders of their free nation. When he meets with dictators around the world, as in this flawed world he must, he will not be able to have warm relations with them, because he said no relations with tyrants can be successful.

His words will be thrown back at him and at future presidents. American diplomats have been sent a strong message. Political reform will always be on the table. Liberation and democratization will be the ghost present at every international meeting. Vladimir Putin will never again be the possessor of that fine soul; he will be the menace to democracy and rule of law.

Uh-huh.

Some people are existentialist in their writing. Brooks is a excrementalist.