Friday, September 26, 2008

Epitomized

clipped from isteve.blogspot.com

Here's George W. Bush's speech from six years ago to
the White House Conference on Increasing Minority Homeownership. The precise
programs he was advocating aren't terribly important, they're fairly minor, but
the tone of his speech is important. It puts the Presidential Seal of Approval
on the orgy of dubious mortgage lending (Down payments? We don't need no
steenking down payments!) in the name of increasing minority
homeownership.

This is the bipartisan consensus epitomized.

By the way, this isn't some eloquent oration Michael
Gerson wrote and Bush just read it stolidly off the teleprompter. As you can see
from the garbled syntax, this is Bush winging it, straight from his heart. He
really believes all this stuff.

Of course, O could have made this speech. Just with a more sonorous tone and only slightly more coherently.