One of the least reported parts of the president’s SOTU speech was his calling out of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. "The government of Saudi Arabia can demonstrate its leadership in the region by expanding the role of its people in determining their future," Mr. Bush told a joint session of Congress. "And the great and proud nation of Egypt, which showed the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East," he added.
While the chattering class was deriding Mr. Bush for his inauguration speech which touted worldwide liberty, check out what Lex said on this on January 25th. Lex opined that the true measure of the president’s commitment to liberty would not be if he bombed Iran or North Korea, but rather if he held our “friends’” feet close to liberty’s fire.
In the SOTU address the president did just that. But the talkers who trashed Bush on his liberty speech and wailed that Bush was just looking to start another war in liberty’s name and about our “friends’” abysmal record on liberty are now oddly silent. Shouldn’t they be praising Bush for his call to Egypt and Saudi Arabia? No, that just won’t do. Praise Bush for something, anything? How absurd!
Well once again the president is showing America and the looniest Dems (Yes, alas it seems they are two different groups.) that he means what he says and says what he means. This is a completely alien concept to the party of Bill and Shrill. They only say what a poll says they should say and mean it only as long as the poll says they should.
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