I was in my car yesterday doing my Saturday morning errands with the radio tuned to the all-news station. I was just in time for to hear George W. Bush's weekly presidential radio address, followed by Barack Obama's Democratic response.
The differences between the two men and their messages have always been stark. And the contrast was never more apparent than it was while listening to their short back-to-back radio updates.
Bush started out by mentioning the Army-Navy football game, which he attended here in Philly yesterday. He used it to segue into his usual song and dance about what a fine idea it was to attack, invade, and occupy Iraq, and how well things are going there. Just the usual thing -- Bush using our troops -- and our troops-in-training -- as props by which to catapult the propaganda.
Enter Barack Obama and his response. No spin. No bald-faced lies. No whitewashing. Just an acknowledgment of the terrible state of our economy, and some good ideas for ways to turning things around. He described a plan for infrastructure improvements that will result in a better and stronger nation and create a lot of new jobs in the process.
Listening to the two men back-to-back, I was struck by how Obama so consistently represents change we can believe in vs. Bush, whose lies we've all learned we can never believe in.
January 20th cannot get here soon enough.
Meantime, check out their radio addresses for yourself:
>> Bush's Dec. 6 radio address
>> Obama's Dec. 6 radio address
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