In Response

I'm not going to comment on the State of the Union, it won't do me any good. However I have a response to the Democratic response. I understand...that it became standard...for politicians to...speak in broken statements. Bill Clinton brought this cadence to prominence and he did it with such enthusiasm and gravitas in turns that he did it well. Heck, the guy never needed a segue.

Now I'm sure that Gov. Tim Kaine is a great guy. Heck, he's a Democrat who won Virginia. If you told me he could part the Chesapeake a la Moses, I wouldn't question you much. But the man has no Elvis. A response which should have been passionate, discussing what's going right and what's wrong that we can fix, the subject matter lends itself to emotional embellishment. We are the party of silver-tounged trial lawyers. Instead we get Skippy, who sounds just like that guy in the driver's ed filmstrips explaining how the left turn is your friend. The content was there, and there is no reason the entire party shouldn't have been crying "Preach on, brother."

I'm disappointed. But not nearly as disappointed as I am in the apparent disconnect between the Executive branch perception and reality. I think Skippy is disappointed too, and all I can tell him is to preach it, brother. Let people know how you feel. It's the only chance we've got.