Um, sir? We’re not in Texas now

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I have nothing to say about the President’s State of the Union address (here’s the text) except this:

The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football, and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message – that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character. So tonight I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches, and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough, and to get rid of steroids now.

Did the man forget he’s no longer salesman-in-chief for the Texas Rangers? Or, as I saw in comments somewhere, did Pete Rose bet him $100 that he wouldn’t put it in the State of the Union address?

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  1. I hate to break it to him, but in pro-sports, performance is more important than character. Lawrence Taylor, Michael Irvine, Steve Howe, Darryl Strawberry …
    And isn’t Bush the last person who should be talking about shortcuts to accomplishment as if its a bad thing?

  4. On NPR this morning, there was a cool short piece on college students’ reactions to the address, and one girl, I recall, addressed this bit, specifically. She said that she thought it was pretty ridiculous that he mentioned steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in a State of the Union address, considering there are so many more pressing drug abuse issues facing the nation right now… and I have to agree.
    But then, I boycotted the address entirely because I just don’t think there’s anything Bush or his puppetmasters have to say that I can really get behind anymore, anyway.

  6. i have to say that i was shouting obscenities at the TV during most of the speech. at least there was beer (if not under the podium, at least at my house). it’s odd to have a cowboy president (i miss the old lech, and the soaring economy, and the freedom to travel without having my movements tracked) … sigh
    i *did* enjoy the unexpected (by W) applause that the end of the patriot act is nigh.
    i laughed out loud. i did.

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