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[bryant]

If the base political form of mockery known as fisking was generally of this quality, I’d be all for it. James Fallows, a former presidential speechwriter, goes over the State of the Union line by line. He’s partisan, but it’s not a partisan set of annotations. He’s coming at it from the point of view of a craftsman. (Via ceej.)

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[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not exactly part of Dubya's religious base, but I did catch most of the references he tossed towards them, and ground my teeth every time. Dubya definitely capitalized "His purposes" in the speech. I don't know how the Times missed it, except that most of their readership would have been irritated by it, so maybe leaving it lower case was an attempt to not get the NYT readership further pissed at Bush?

I especially liked this comment:
[From the mouth of a liberal politician, this list of religious symbols might be criticized as PC-style multiculturalism. Starting right after September 11, President Bush has been careful to mention Islam as one of America's component religions.]

Of course, no one would dare accuse a Republican of PC-style pandering, because we all know They Don't Do That, right?