The State of the Union

Now you probably realize that State of the Union address aired long ago, but I could not bring myself to write about it until now. My reluctance to sit down and do this caused me to do some searching and discover: I AM TIRED OF GEORGE W. BUSH.

Now, before you go on a rant about how Dub Ya has run the country into the ground, allow me to finish. I am tired of George W. Bush. And I do not mean I am tired of his foreign policy or tired of "No Child Left Behind" or tired of Tax Breaks for corporations. But I am tired of George W. Bush the same way that I am tired of "Flavor of Love", tired of hearing who Kim Kardashian is sleeping with this week, and tired of hearing about Brittany Spears ""Mental Breakdown"".

What have we done to our government. We have turned our political leaders into celebrities. We do not wait for Bush to announce where he is taking the country, but we wait for him to say something idiotic so we can laugh later while watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.

In his State of the Union address, Bush cemented his commitment to the "war on terror" as he/we have now named it, and spoke of a commitment to train those who have lost manufacturing jobs to outsourcing to work in service industries.

But none of that matters to some. As the line between news and infotainment continues to blur I hope that we all are not loosing sight of the true implications of the actions of our political leaders. Just because we are told to laugh does not mean it's funny.