Our president says “nucular”. Do you think he says “foilage” or “libary”? Irregardless, I believe my commentating on it is a mute point.

I know I am grousing about a petty thing, but do you think “nucular” is the elephant in the living room at the White House? Everyone hears it and snickers under their breath, but nobody wants to acknowledge it. Why can’t anyone tell CIC Bush that it’s pronounced new-klee-er. The Emporer has no clothes! It’s not like Favre (Farve) or Chankij (Chan-kit), both of which are proper nouns so “fuck you” to all who knew how to pronounce my name or say “nucular”. Maybe I aks too much of them.

Taking the politics out of the speech, the whole thing freaked me out. All these people have built their careers around public speaking and a little charisma, right? I mean, you have to be a personable mother f’er to get a bunch of people to go and pull a lever for you one day every four years no matter WHAT your politics are. But watching the State of the Union Address, I noticed that Bush talks with a mouthful of marbles, Pelosi does a great impression of Carol Channing and Daschle speaks with the uncomfortable calmness of Hannibal Lechter.

I think speaking in public for a White House politician should be honed to have a fine edge at this stage in his or her career. At the least a sincere public persona should be created. Again, disregarding politics altogether, Bill Clinton was as smooth as ice cream poop when he spoke. I am by no means a public speaker, and if you got me in front of a camera I could do a great deer-caught-in-headlights impression, but I have also not chosen politics as a career. They have done something right to get elected but at this level, hire a speech and/or personality coach or fire your current coach and get a good one.

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